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Chris Hoy
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British racing driver and former track cyclist
OverviewAI-generated
Christopher Andrew Hoy is a British sport cyclist, racing automobile driver, and autobiographer. Born in Edinburgh on 23 March 1976, he holds United Kingdom citizenship and was educated at the University of Edinburgh. Hoy has competed in track cycling for the United Kingdom, participating in the 2000 Summer Olympics, the men's track time trial at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and the men's Keirin at both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He has received the Knight Bachelor and Member of the Order of the British Empire awards.
Hoy is also an author with eleven listed works, including *All That Matters*, *Trouble on the Track*, *Chris Hoy*, *Be Amazing! an Inspiring Guide to Being Your Own Champion*, and *How to Ride a Bike*. His physical attributes include a height of 186 and a mass of 92. He speaks English and has been diagnosed with cancer. Nicknamed "The Real McHoy" and "His Royal Hoyness," he maintains an official website and has 679,199 social media followers.
Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- All That Matters
- Trouble on the Track
- Chris Hoy
- Be Amazing! an Inspiring Guide to Being Your Own Champion
- How to Ride a Bike
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Sweden
Discography
- Like a Dancer2024
- All the Things2024
- Intertwinings2025
- Why2025
- Live With It2025
- Out of Love2025
- Consequences2026
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 1,049
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Hoy">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,043x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,614x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,964x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,783x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,272x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 2004
- Team Persil
- Full name
- Christopher Andrew Hoy
- Born
- ( 1976-03-23 ) 23 March 1976 (age 50) , Edinburgh , Scotland
- Height
- 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
- Weight
- 92 kg (203 lb; 14 st 7 lb)
- Discipline
- Track
- Role
- Rider
- 1984 1986
- Scotia BMX
- 1986 1991
- GT Factory BMX Team
- 1992 1993
- Dunedin CC
- 1994 2001
- City of Edinburgh RC
- 2001 2003
- Team Athena
- 2005 2007
- Team Wolfson Microelectronics / Miller
- 2008 2013
- Team Sky+ HD
via Wikipedia infobox
~22 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Olympic Games
2004 Athens1 km time trial
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