Chris Hoy is a Scottish former track cyclist and racing driver who represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games and World Championships. He is an eleven time world champion and a six time Olympic champion, and his seven Olympic medals, six gold and one silver, make him the second most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time. With three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics he became Scotland's most successful Olympian and the first British male athlete to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games since 1908, and his seventeen global titles across four disciplines rank him second among track cyclists in history.
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Career HighlightSix-time Olympic champion and 11-time world champion in track cycling, with seven Olympic medals overall, the second most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time. 1 Classification
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What did Chris Hoy win at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Three gold medals: team sprint, sprint and keirin.
Chris Hoy won three gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in the team sprint, the match sprint and the keirin. Olympedia describes this as the best track cycling performance at a single Olympics since Marcus Hurley in 1904. He anchored the British team sprint squad to the title and then dominated the match sprint and keirin competitions.
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Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy (born 23 March 1976) is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
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Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy (born 23 March 1976) is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
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Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy (born 23 March 1976) is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
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Hoy is an 11-time world champion and a six-time Olympic champion. With a total of seven Olympic medals, six gold and one silver, Hoy is the second most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time.
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Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy (born 23 March 1976) is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
After winning a further two gold medals (in the keirin and team sprint) at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Hoy has won the second-most Olympic gold medals (six) of all British athletes, behind Jason Kenny, and more total medals (seven) than any except fellow cyclists Kenny and Sir Bradley Wiggins.
Competed In: 2008 Summer Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
With his three gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics, Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first British male athlete to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games since Henry Taylor in 1908, and the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time.
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