SIX-TIME Olympic champion Jason Kenny is contemplating retirement, according to his wife Laura.

The Farnworth Flyer won three Olympic golds in Rio last August to draw level with fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy as Great Britain’s most successful Olympian, with six golds and one silver.

The 29-year-old is absent from this week’s Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong, taking an extended break as he considers whether to continue to the Tokyo 2020 Games or to quit altogether.

Mrs Kenny, who is Britain’s most successful female Olympian with four cycling gold medals of her own, told BBC Sport that her husband was taking time to consider his sporting future.

She said: “He’s having six months to decide what he wants to do, whether to carry on or whether to retire.

“I’m not sure he even knows to be totally honest.

“As athletes, you always want to carry on, you always want to go to the next one.

“He’s going to give himself a bit of time. As athletes you become this self-absorbed kind of person and everything’s just about you, but there’s bigger things in life than that.”

She was working as a pundit on BBC’s coverage of the competition, as she is now pregnant with the couple’s first child.

The plan was always for Jason to have an extended sabbatical after the Rio Games, which was his third Olympics.

The pair, who switched on Bolton’s Christmas lights last year, married last September.