Chris Hoy wins World Cup sprint gold in Kazakhstan

Sir Chris Hoy won his second medal of the track cycling World Cup in Kazakhstan today with gold in the sprint.

The four-times Olympic champion added victory in the sprint to the silver he won in the keirin. 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 recovered well.

He recorded a sub-10 seconds 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.

Russia's Denis Dmitriev was beaten in straight races in the gold-medal race.