Along with Chris Hoy's individual award, Great Britain's Olympic cyclists and British Cycling's performance director David Brailsford have respectively scooped the Team of the Year and Coach of the Year awards in the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year ceremony.
With an avalanche of medals on the track and road, many of Britain's cyclists have become household names since the Beijing Olympic Games in August, and both awards recognise the achievements of the riders and the team of support staff behind them. The cyclists' 14 medals - including eight golds - accounted for a third of Britain's total medal count at the Games.
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