Cycling: Hoy at double as he sprints to world gold

Hoy won his second medal of the track World Cup in Kazakhstan yesterday (GETTY IMAGES)

Sir Chris Hoy won his second medal of the track World Cup in Kazakhstan yesterday with gold in the sprint. It joined Saturday's keirin silver in the four-time Olympic champion's locker.

And there was another medal for the British team as Dani King claimed silver in the women's omnium. It meant a total of three medals in a relatively low-key weekend for the British teams at the first of the four-event series.

Hoy, who pulled out of last month's European Championships with a chest infection, appears to have fully recovered.

The Briton produced a sub-10sec ride in qualifying for the sprint and was only really troubled in his semi-final against Germany's Robert Forstemann when he needed to come from behind in a best-of-three series to secure a place in the final.

But Hoy dispatched Russia's Denis Dmitriev in straight races in the gold-medal race. PA