Philip Hindes

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(born 22 September 1992) is a British

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, specialising in

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. He holds

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, having been born in

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to a

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father. Having initially competed for Germany at a junior level, in 2010 he switched to the

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programme. At the

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he won the gold medal in the Men's team sprint, and again at the

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he won the gold medal in the Men's team sprint.

Early life

Hindes was born in

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. His father served with the British Army in Germany where he met Hindes' German mother. He attended Heinrich Heine Gymnasium, a specialist sports school in

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, where he was coached by Frank Zeigler. Hindes represented his region,

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in rowing, following his brother into the sport.

Career

Hindes began cycling in 2008 at the age of 15 in road racing events but switched to sprinting after two seasons. He represented Germany at the Junior World Track Championships in 2010, placing third in the team sprint and fourth in the individual sprint. Later that year Hindes moved to the United Kingdom and joined British Cycling's Olympic Academy Programme. He received clearance to ride for Great Britain after the

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(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

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in the men's team sprint at the Track Cycling World Cup in

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, finishing in sixth position. Hindes is coached by Jan van Eijden and Iain Dyer. Hindes was chosen to represent Great Britain at the

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, Australia as part of the squad for the men's team sprint alongside

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and

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. Hindes replaced

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in the team, after Edgar elected to focus on gym and road training. The trio were due to race in the bronze medal final but were relegated for an infringement in their qualifying heat. In July 2012 Hindes was selected to compete for

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in the men's team sprint as part of a squad that also included four-time Olympic gold medalist Hoy, and double Olympic gold medalist Kenny. The event took place at the

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on 2 August. The British trio won the gold medal and set new world records in both the first round and again in the final against France, while Hoy joined

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as the only British athletes to win five Olympic gold medals. Following the gold medal win, Hindes said that he had deliberately crashed after a slow start to help his team. After winning the race, Hindes told the BBC "We were saying if we have a bad start we need to crash to get a restart. I just crashed, I did it on purpose to get a restart, just to have the fastest ride. I did it. So it was all planned, really." Under UCI rules, "races can be re-started if one of the riders suffers a "mishap", but it must be a mechanical fault or genuine accident." In a post-race press conference, Hindes gave a different account, stating "No. I just went out the gate and just lost control, just fell down...My back wheel slipped and totally lost control and I couldn’t handle the bike any more and just crashed." The British Cycling stated "Hindes had been misunderstood due to English not being his first language." No action was taken by the IOC. For this incident, Hindes was awarded with the fifth placing on ''

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s "Anti-Sportsman of the year". Hindes was appointed

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(MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling. He was named as a member of the team for the 2016 season. At the

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, Hindes won Silver in the

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event alongside

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and

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hindes, Philip Living people 1992 births English people of German descent English track cyclists English male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Great Britain Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Members of the Order of the British Empire Sportspeople from Krefeld Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling German male cyclists German people of English descent Cyclists from North Rhine-Westphalia Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games