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| 2024 |
Andrey Borodin
Competing in International GT Open and GT Cup Championship - Group GT3 with Greystone GT, with the season still in progress.
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| October 2024 | Reported that his prostate cancer was terminal, with an estimated two to four years remaining to live. |
| February 16 2024 | News of his cancer condition made public, with announcement that he was undergoing chemotherapy. |
| 2023 |
Andrey Borodin
Raced in British GT Championship - GT3 with Greystone GT, finishing 21st overall. Also competed in GT Cup Championship - Group GT3, achieving 4 podiums, 1 pole, 1 fastest lap, and finishing 7th overall with 100.5 points.
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| September 2023 | Diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. |
| 2022 |
Andrey Borodin
Competed in GT Cup Championship - GT3 and British GT Championship - GT3 with Greystone GT, participating in multiple races but not achieving significant results.
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| 2021 |
Andrey Borodin
Raced in Britcar Endurance Championship with Greystone GT, participating in 2 races and finishing 26th overall with 38 points.
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| 2020 |
Andrey Borodin
Competed in Porsche Sprint Challenge Great Britain with IN2 Racing, participating in 2 races but achieving no wins, poles, fastest laps, or podiums.
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| 2020 | Published a children's book titled Be Amazing. |
| November 2018 |
Andrey Borodin
Dmitro Gerasimenko, appointed as executive director by Andrey Akimov, sold the Krasny Oktyabr plant to Pavel Krotov.
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| December 2017 | Supported Social Bite by sleeping out at their Sleep in the Park event to raise money for homeless people. |
| 2016 | Completed the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing 17th overall and 12th in class with his team. |
| 2016 | Published first two children's fiction books about a young cyclist called Flying Fergus. |
| December 2016 | Supported Scottish social enterprise Social Bite by sleeping out at their Sleep in the Park event to raise money for homeless people. |
| March 2016 | Confirmed as an entrant for the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours, driving a Ligier JS P2-Nissan with Andrea Pizzitola and Michael Munemann. Notably, he was the first Summer Olympic medallist and second Olympic champion to compete in the race. |
| 2015 | Won two additional races in the European Le Mans Series' LMP3 class, including a victory at Circuit Paul Ricard that secured the class title with a round to spare. |
| 2015 | Won his first international motorsport competition at the opening round of the European Le Mans Series at Silverstone, driving a Ginetta-Nissan to a class win with team-mate Charlie Robertson. |
| 2015 | Chris Hoy competed with United Kingdom's Team LNT in the Ginetta Juno LMP3, finishing 13th overall and 2nd in class with co-drivers Lawrence Tomlinson, Charlie Robertson, Mike Simpson, and Gaetan Paletou |
| 2015 | Competed in the Race of Champions at the London Olympic Stadium as a late replacement in Team All Stars' Nations Cup, partnering with Romain Grosjean. |
| May 13 2015 |
Andrey Borodin
A Russian Court ordered the seizure of Borodin's Park Place mansion in Henley-on-Thames.
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| 2014 | Received BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. |
| April 8 2014 | Announced joining the British GT championship, set to drive a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 with the goal of competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016. |
| 2013 | Appointed as an ambassador for UNICEF UK. |
| August 23 2013 | Awarded Freedom of the City of Edinburgh. |
| April 2013 | Accepted appointment as ambassador to the Royal Air Force Air Cadets and assumed the rank of Honorary Group Captain RAFVR(T). |
| April 18 2013 | Chris Hoy officially announced his retirement from competitive cycling, reflecting on his significant contribution to the transformation of the sport. |
| March 1 2013 |
Andrey Borodin
Borodin announced he was granted political asylum in the UK, claiming Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was the 'chief initiator' of his persecution.
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| 2012 | The Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, built for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, was named in his honour. |
| 2012 | At the World Cup event in the London Velodrome, Chris Hoy won three medals: gold in the keirin, bronze in the team sprint, and gold in the Men's Sprint, where he lost only one race in four rounds. |
| November 2012 | Chris Hoy launched his own bicycle brand 'Hoy Bikes', three months after winning double Olympic gold in London. The initial range included three road bikes, four city bikes, and a track bike. |
| August 2012 |
Andrey Borodin
Borodin purchased Park Place, Britain's most expensive house near Henley-on-Thames, for £140 million ($219 million).
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| August 2012 | Hoy won gold in the team sprint with Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes, setting a new world record in the velodrome. |
| August 7 2012 | Hoy won gold in the Keirin event, becoming the most successful British Olympian ever with a total of 6 gold medals, equaling Sir Steve Redgrave's record and becoming a joint record holder with Sir Bradley Wiggins and Jason Kenny for most Olympic medals by a British athlete. |
| July 2012 | Chris Hoy served as the flag carrier for Team GB at the London Olympic Games opening ceremony, leading the team into the stadium. |
| 2011 | Won gold in Keirin, Team sprint, and Sprint at the World Championships. |
| October 2011 | Chris Hoy won the match sprint title at the British National Championships. |
| February 2011 | At the Manchester World Cup event, Chris Hoy was defeated in the semi-finals of the men's sprint by Jason Kenny. |
| 2010 | At the UCI World Championships, Hoy won gold in the Keirin event, securing his tenth world title, despite crashing in the heats. |
| 2010 | Hoy was part of the GB men's team sprint team that won bronze at the UCI World Championships. |
| 2010 | Married Sarra Kemp at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. |
| 2010 | At the UCI World Championships, Hoy was defeated in the men's sprint quarter-final by German Robert Förstemann. |
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