Sir Chris Hoy Rides the Twitter Wave of Olympic Glory

As Sir Chris Hoy became the most successful British Olympian of all time, he also eclipsed fellow British athletes with 208,000 tweet name checks on Day 11.

As Sir Chris Hoy became the most successful British Olympian of all time, he also eclipsed fellow British athletes with 208,000 tweet name checks on Day 11.

Sir Chris Hoy tweet mentions peaked at 19,000 per minute - the highest for a cyclist in these games.

The Brownlee brothers followed Sir Chris Hoy with 154,000 tweets as they took Gold and Bronze in the Men's Triathlon.

Anna Meares may have won the women's sprint but Victoria Pendleton beats her arch rival with 45,900 tweet mentions versus Meares' 10,400.

As we've seen throughout these Olympics TeamGB top the most tweeted country leaderboard on Day 11 with 196,000 tweets.

The analysis was created using Starcom MediaVest Group's ECHOscreen research tool.

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