It was also his first ever keirin title, with all of his previous five golds having come in the team or individual sprint. I was so exhausted I was floating through it. It’s pretty fantastic to be level with Chris [Hoy].
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Asked by Sky News Sports Correspondent Paul Kelso what the future held, Kenny said: “Obviously we are going to get married and we will disappear on honeymoon for a few months”.
“Not bad is it, 10 medals”, beamed Kenny. Dutch rider Matthijs Buchli took silver and Malaysia’s Azizulhasni Awang took bronze.
It happened again though, with German rider Joachim Eilers looking as though he clearly passed the derny as he accelerated at the top of the track.
But Kenny held his nerve, to the delight of Hoy.
Trott, now Britain’s most successful female Olympic athlete of all-time, joined her partner and fellow cyclist Jason Kenny in the Rio Velodrome yesterday after he too scooped gold at the Games.
Kenny would also have to hold off Laura Trott, his fiancé, who is just two behind with four career Olympic gold medals, the fourth of which she won on Tuesday. “This is a really special moment – a phenomenal performance tonight and all week”.
“I can’t believe it, I did not expect that at all”.
Kenny, whose only defeat in Olympic competition came in 2008 to Hoy in the sprint, when he picked up silver, was born 12 years to the day after Hoy. “I love my sister to the moon, so all u nasty people I love you @EmmaTrott1989 that’s all that matters right”.
Belgium’s Jolien d’Hoore is her nearest rival on 144 points, while Sarah Hammer of the United States was third on 140 ahead of the flying lap and concluding points race.
Kenny’s fiancee Laura Trott, who has four gold medals to her name after winning two at Rio, embraced him post race in an emotional fashion.
Trott finished second in the 500 metres time-trial on Tuesday morning, giving her two first-place finishes and two seconds from four disciplines and a total of 156 points.
James won the silver and Elis Ligtlee from the Netherland bagged the bronze medal.
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Annette Edmondson has fallen out of medal contention to finish eighth in the omnium at Olympic track cycling.
