Six-time Olympic cycling champion Chris Hoy will be honoured with the lifetime achievement award at the BBC Sports Personality celebrations this weekend.
The 38-year-old Scot, who retired from competition in 2013, will be presented with the accolade during Sunday's show at Glasgow's SSE Hydro arena.
"I never thought I'd see my name alongside the likes of Sir Steve Redgrave, David Beckham, Seve Ballesteros and others who've received this honour," Hoy told reporters.
Sir Bradley Wiggins - 2012 Sports Personality of the Year - paid tribute to his fellow cyclist by adding: "He is the marker for everybody else because he was, in some ways, the model athlete off the bike as well as on it.
"I think he's right up there, not only for British athletes but in terms of world athletes. I put Chris up there with the Usain Bolts of this world."
Hoy is the most decorated Olympic cyclist in history, with seven medals in total. He won three golds at the 2008 Games in Beijing on his way to being crowned Sports Personality of the Year.
The Edinburgh-born athlete is also the joint-most prolific British Olympic medallist alongside Wiggins, an 11-time world champion and was knighted by the Prince of Wales in 2009.
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