In which event did Chris Hoy win a Gold Medal at the recent World Track Cycling Championships?
"UCI Track Cycling World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI's predecessor, the International Cycling Association (ICA). Current events include: time trial, keirin, individual pursuit, team pursuit, points race, scratch race, sprint, team sprint, omnium and madison. Women's events are generally shorter than men's. Events which are no longer held include the motor paced events and tandem events. World championships were first held in 1893, in Chicago, under"
"Chris Hoy Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy, MBE (born 23 March 1976), known as Chris Hoy, is a Scottish racing driver and former track cyclist who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Hoy is eleven-times a world champion and six-times an 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. With his three gold medals in 2008 Summer Olympics, Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first British athlete to win three gold medals in a"
"World Championships, seven of them gold, and nine gold medals at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester. The investment paid off in the 2008 Olympics; British cyclists brought home gold medals in seven events, most notably Chris Hoy who became the first British Olympian to win three golds at one Olympiad, earning him a knighthood. Other successes include Rebecca Romero and Victoria Pendleton. Success at road racing was also limited, with the United Kingdom being the only major nation not to have a Tour de France champion, until Bradley Wiggins' victory in the 2012 Tour de France."
"silver in Berlin, at the 1999 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the team sprint, riding at man one, Craig MacLean at 2 and Jason Quealley at 3. Regular team mates in the team sprint over the years have included Craig Maclean, Ross Edgar, Jamie Staff, Jason Queally, Matthew Crampton and Jason Kenny. Following Jason Queally's Gold Medal in the Kilo TT, Hoy joined with him and Craig MacLean to win his first Olympic Medal, a Silver in the Team Sprint or ""Olympic Sprint"" as it was then called. They were beaten by an excellent French team but the two"
"Great Britain's six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy. Lee is a Baptist Christian. In 2009, she enrolled on a distance-learning course to study theology with the New York Theological Education Center Chinese Online School of Theology. Lee Wai Sze Lee Wai Sze, BBS, MH (; born 12 May 1987) also known as Sarah Lee, is a Hong Kong professional racing cyclist. She specialises in track cycling especially as a sprinter. Her greatest success to date is winning the bronze medal in the women's keirin at the 2012 London Olympics, Hong Kong's third-ever Olympic medal and first in cycling. Lee was"
"Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, Khan represented Britain at the UCI Juniors Track World Championships. She was featured in the documentary ""Bicycle"" with her family. In January 2016 Khan was announced as a member of Team Breeze, British Cycling's women's development squad. October 2016 Khan traveled to Paris to race in her first U23 European Track Championships where her and the other team pursuit girls got a bronze medal. Danni has a little sister (Daisy Khan), an up-and-coming cyclist who is hoping to follow in her sisters footsteps. Dannielle Khan Dannielle Khan (born 1 September 1995) is an English"
"single Olympic Games since Henry Taylor in 1908, and the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time. After winning a further two gold medals (in the keirin and team sprint) at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Hoy has won more Olympic gold medals (six) than any other British athlete along with Jason Kenny, and more total medals (seven) than any except fellow cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins. The son of David and Carol Hoy, Chris Hoy grew up in the suburb of Murrayfield, near Edinburgh, and was educated at George Watson's College, a private school, followed by two years at the University"
"large number of spectators. The recent success of the British team, including Chris Hoy's triple Gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics and double Gold winning performance at the 2012 Summer Olympics has meant that the events now regularly sell out in advance. The series was founded in 2003, with the main aim of providing regular track cycling events for fans to attend in Manchester. Previously, track cycling fans were generally only able to attend one international event in Manchester each year, usually a round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics series, or as in 2000, the UCI Track"
"semi-final to comply with requirements for the Davis Cup. Great Britain played again at the arena for the 2016 Davis Cup semifinals. The Velodrome has a 250-meter indoor track with a capacity of 2,500 (2,000 seated), expanding to 4,500 (4,000 seated) with temporary seating during the Games. The Velodrome is named after Olympic and Commonwealth gold-medal winning Scottish cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, who was, at the time, Britain's most successful Olympic athlete. It opened in October 2012, and hosted a round of the 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup series In August 2013, it hosted the 2013 UCI Juniors Track"
"medals won for GB was the start of the renaissance of British Cycling which has led on to remarkable results over his career. Hoy arrived in Athens in the form of his life. His main event was the Kilo Time Trial. He was ranked No 1 and was last man off. The sea level World Record was broken four times as he sat in the track centre waiting for his start. He had been involved in an accident in the athlete's village just a few days prior to competition where he came off his bike in front of a village"
"Chris Hoy Velodrome. Glasgow returned to the calendar for the first time since 2013. The venue will host the UEC European Track Cycling Championships in 2018. The second round was hosted in Apeldoorn in the Gelderland province of the Netherlands. This round was held between 11 and 13 November 2016 at Omnisport Apeldoorn. Apeldoorn has previously hosted the 2011 and 2013 UEC European Track Cycling Championships and also previously hosted the 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. The third round will be hosted in Cali. Cali is the third most populated city in Colombia and a regular site for the"
"top two cyclists in each heat advanced to the semifinals, with the rest of the cyclists competing again in the repechage. Four of those cyclists advanced from the repechage to the semifinals as well, for a total of 12 semifinalists. They raced again in two semifinals heats. The top three cyclists in each semifinal advanced to the final, while the bottom three competed in the 7th to 12th place classification race. Twenty-five cyclists competed in the Keirin. Chris Hoy (Great Britain) qualified directly by winning the Keirin at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He also won the event"
"UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's 1 km time trial The UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's 1 km Time Trial is the world championship track cycling time trial event for men, held annually at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Arnaud Tournant of France, Chris Hoy of Great Britain and Stefan Nimke of Germany share the record of most wins with four each. The event was also held at the Summer Olympics from 1928. However, after it was removed from the 2008 Summer Olympics cycling programme, some cyclists, such as Hoy, decided to concentrate on other events"
"five entrants in the four disciplines. Included were two reigning Olympic track cycling champions, Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins, plus a further two medal winners from 2004, as well as several reigning track world champions. Great Britain won fourteen cycling medals (eight gold, four silver and two bronze) in total to top the cycling medal table. The Cycling team won the BBC Sports team of the year award and was nominated for Laureus World team of the year. On the track Mark Cavendish was the only member of the squad of fourteen not to win at least one medal. Chris"
"Year Honours and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling. On 4 April 2012, Clancy was part of the Great Britain team which set a new world record of 3:53.295 in winning the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2012 World Track Cycling Championships in Melbourne. After the 2012 Olympic Games, where he set a time of 1:00.981 in the Omnium Kilo Time Trial, British Cycling announced that Clancy would replace Sir Chris Hoy in the Great Britain team for the team sprint event, where he"
"titles at revolution cycling series. On 8 August 2013, at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, Kay competed at the UCI Juniors Track World Championships. She was part of Britain's Team Pursuit squad which also included Hayley Jones, Amy Hill and Emily Nelson. In the qualifying heat, they broke the ""senior"" world record which had only been set a few weeks previously at the European Track Championships, setting a new time of 4:38.708. In the final, they broke the record once more, with a time of 4:35.085, beating Russia to become world champions. At the 2009 Dudley Track Open"
"He won gold in the keirin and bronze in the team sprint, before winning gold in the Men's Sprint, losing just one race in four rounds. Hoy was an ambassador for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Hoy led Team GB out as the team's flag carrier at the opening ceremony. He then went on to win gold in the team sprint with Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes, setting a new world record in the velodrome and becoming Team GB's joint gold record holder with Sir Steve Redgrave's tally of five gold medals with a total of six medals (5"
"Sky Track Cycling Sky Track Cycling was a professional track cycling team competing in the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics series. The team, based at the Manchester Velodrome, was made up of British riders, including Olympic Gold medalists Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, Victoria Pendleton and Jamie Staff. It is managed by Shane Sutton with Dave Brailsford acting as team representative. The team was launched in October 2008 with Hoy, Kenny, Pendleton, Staff, Ross Edgar and Shanaze Reade. In the 2009 track cycling off-season, Reade was replaced by Peter Mitchell and Chris Newton. For the 2010–2011 season, Newton and Staff"
"in, the Sprint and the Keirin. Other riders present were Jason Kenny, Ross Edgar and Jamie Staff. He won silver in the men's team sprint at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships with teammates Jamie Staff and Jason Kenny. He also won silver in the same event two years later with Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny, after the French squad were stripped of the world title and the British team were promoted from their original bronze medals. At the 2011 UEC European Track Championships, Crampton won the gold medal in the keirin. He won gold in keirin and placed"
"an Olympic sport at the time, he turned his attention to track cycling. He qualified for the GB Cycling Team at the first attempt. A natural competitor, he revels in the combative nature of the Sprint and the Keirin, though his stand-out rides so far have been in the Team Sprint and The Kilo. At the Commonwealth Games, he was a member of the silver medal winning England Team Sprint trio, an impressive semi-finalist in the sprint (during which he broke the national 200 m record) and the winner of a bronze in the Kilometer, behind GB team-mates Chris Hoy"
"and were not classified. Just qualifying for the event with only 10 days training was still a remarkable achievement. The other team of Macey and Gardener went one better and finished 6th overall in the competition, ahead of one of the Great Britain Olympic Development teams. Craig is featured alongside Chris Hoy in a book by Richard Moore, ""Heroes, Villains and Velodromes: Chris Hoy and Britain's Track Cycling Revolution"". This describes how Maclean and Hoy were key figures in the rise of British Track Cycling. The book was published in June 2008 by Harper Collins. () In 2009, he was"
"Callum Skinner Callum Skinner (born 20 August 1992) is a British track cyclist. He won the silver medal in the individual sprint at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was a member of the British team that won gold in the team sprint. Skinner was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He moved to Bruntsfield, Edinburgh at the age of 12 and attended James Gillespie's High School. He took up cycling in 2004, inspired by Chris Hoy's success in the sport at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In 2008 he was national youth champion and broke Hoy's British 200m record for his"
"to 12th place. Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Keirin The men's Keirin at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at the London Velopark on 7 August. Chris Hoy from Great Britain won the gold medal. The Keirin races involve 6.5 laps of the track behind a pace-setter, followed by a 2.5 lap sprint to the finish. The tournament consisted of preliminary heats and repechages, a semi-finals round, and the finals. The heats and repechages narrowed the field to 12. The semi-finals divided the remaining 12 into six finalists. The final round also included a ranking"
"Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Keirin The men's Keirin at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at the London Velopark on 7 August. Chris Hoy from Great Britain won the gold medal. The Keirin races involve 6.5 laps of the track behind a pace-setter, followed by a 2.5 lap sprint to the finish. The tournament consisted of preliminary heats and repechages, a semi-finals round, and the finals. The heats and repechages narrowed the field to 12. The semi-finals divided the remaining 12 into six finalists. The final round also included a ranking race for 7th"
"Britain after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board waived the regulation that would have required him to wait three years before changing his national allegiance on account of his dual nationality. In 2011 Hindes competed with Dave Daniell and Peter Mitchell in the men's team sprint at the Track Cycling World Cup in Beijing, finishing in sixth position. Hindes is coached by Jan van Eijden and Iain Dyer. Hindes was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne, Australia as part of the squad for the men's team sprint alongside Chris Hoy"
"retired, Mitchell left the team, Reade made a return and Matthew Crampton joined the team. The team remained unchanged for the 2011–2012 season. The team was not registered with the UCI for the 2013–14 track cycling season. Sky Track Cycling Sky Track Cycling was a professional track cycling team competing in the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics series. The team, based at the Manchester Velodrome, was made up of British riders, including Olympic Gold medalists Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, Victoria Pendleton and Jamie Staff. It is managed by Shane Sutton with Dave Brailsford acting as team representative. The team"
"April 2013 Hoy accepted the appointment of ambassador to the Royal Air Force Air Cadets and assumed the rank of Honorary Group Captain RAFVR(T). In 2013, Hoy was appointed as an ambassador for UNICEF UK, having been an International Inspiration ambassador for UNICEF since 2009. In December 2016 and December 2017 Hoy supported the Scottish Social Enterprise Social Bite by sleeping out at their Sleep in the Park events to end homelessness in Scotland. Chris Hoy Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy, MBE (born 23 March 1976), known as Chris Hoy, is a Scottish racing driver and former track cyclist who represented"
"gold in the tandem sprint. Peter Mitchell (cyclist) Peter Mitchell (born 12 January 1990 in London, England) is an English track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints. In 2009, he was named in the Team Sky+ HD track cycling team alongside names such as Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendelton. In November 2012 it was announced that Mitchell was joining the British paralympic cycling squad as a pilot for the tandem events. Mitchell teamed up with Paralympic gold medallist and multiple world champion Neil Fachie for the 2013 British National Track Championships, where they were second in both the"
"eleventh and twelfth gold medals. European Championships<br> 2018 UEC Track Elite European Championships 2018 UEC European Track Championships The 2018 UEC European Track Championships was the ninth edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, Scotland, between 2 and 7 August 2018. The event was organised by the European Cycling Union. All European champions were awarded the UEC European Champion jersey which may be worn by the champion throughout the year when competing in the same event at other competitions. The Championships formed part of both the"
"of medals won to 51. Great Britain finished 4th overall in the medal tables, a target previously set by UK Sport, the public body responsible for distributing funding to elite sport, for the 2012 Games. UK Sport considered whether to target 3rd place in the 2012 Games, which was hosted by the United Kingdom in London. Cyclist Chris Hoy became the first British athlete in 100 years to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games. Because London was to be host city of the 2012 Summer Olympics, a British segment was performed during the closing ceremony. The following"
"produced several world-class cyclists. Robert Millar finished in 4th place at the 1984 Tour de France winning the King of the Mountains jersey; He also acchived 2nd place finished at the 1985 and 1986 Vuelta a España as well as runner up in the 1987 Giro d'Italia. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Chris Hoy became the most successful British Olympian in over 100 years when he cycled to 3 golds in the velodrome in sprint events (Sprint, team sprint and keirin). His achievements earned him the honor of carrying the nation's flag in the closing ceremony and a knighthood"
"Time Trial C3 and 13th in the Men's Road Race C1-3. At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he won the gold medal in the Men's 3km Pursuit C3 He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours ""for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."" In November 2016, he was awarded the Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association Sporting Wheelie of The Year. He was awarded Cycling Australia's Male Elite Para-Cyclist for 2016 and 2017. In November 2017, he was awarded Queensland Sport Athlete"
"Amy Hill (cyclist) Amy Hill (born 4 July 1995) is a Welsh racing cyclist from Newport, Wales, who currently rides for Team Rytger. She previously rode for Abergavenny RC Women’s Team. She was a member of the record breaking, gold medal winning, British team pursuit squad at the Juniors world championships in 2013. On 8 August 2013, at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, Hill competed at the UCI Juniors Track World Championships. She was part of Britain's Team Pursuit squad which also included Hayley Jones, Emily Kay and Emily Nelson. In the qualifying heat, they broke the ""senior"""