With the Olympics coming to Britain next year and British Cycling announcing their Hall of Fame, it seemed appropriate to see who, in terms of actual medals in Commonwealth, Olympic and World championships who the greatest of them is. The list doesn’t appear to include currently active cyclists, so I added Chris Hoy as my control subject.
| Cyclist | C’wealth Gold | C’wealth Silver | C’wealth Bronze | Olympic Gold | Olympic Silver | Olympic Bronze | World Gold | World Silver | World Bronze | Total Gold | Total Silver | Total Bronze | Total |
| Chris Hoy (not in the list) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 32 | ||
| Jason Queally | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 15 | |||
| Beryl Burton | 7 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 13 | ||||||
| Paul Manning | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
| Hugh Porter | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |||||
| Chris Boardman | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | |||||
| Craig MacLean | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | |||
| Graeme Obree | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| Malcolm Elliott | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| Mandy Jones | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Tom Simpson | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
As you can see, Chris Hoy comfortably tops our stats table and the oft-talked about Chris Boardman and Graeme Obree are further down the list. So competitive cyclists looking for British role models have a few more names to look at – like Jason Queally and Beryl Burton. You may also consider ordering the Motivational Mind Trainng for Competitive Cyclists audio CD which uses other NLP techniques like hypnotherapy and goal setting to improve your race cycling.
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