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 Phinney at the 2011 Tour de Romandie |
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| Full name | Taylor Phinney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 27, 1990  United States |
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| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (180 lb; 12.9 st)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | BMC Racing Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track, Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time Trial/Classic specialist/Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008–2010 2011– |
Trek-Livestrong BMC Racing Team |
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Taylor Phinney (born June 27, 1990 in Boulder, Colorado) is a world champion American racing cyclist, specialising on the track in individual pursuit. He is the son of former professional racing cyclist Davis Phinney and former Olympic gold medal racing cyclist and speed skater Connie Carpenter-Phinney. Phinney rides professionally for UCI ProTeam BMC Racing Team.
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[edit] Career
Phinney started bike racing at age 15 on Team Slipstream's Junior Team. In August 2007, he won the Junior World Championships for the time trial. Since then he has competed in Nationals, World Cups and World Championships for track cycling. Phinney finished seventh in the individual pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Later that year, at the US National Track Championships, he won gold medals in the elite 1 km time trial, individual pursuit and team pursuit races.[2] On September 24, 2008, Lance Armstrong announced that Phinney had been named to the Under-23 team being organized by Armstrong.[3]
On July 29, 2010, it was announced that Phinney and teammates Jesse Sergent and Clinton Avery would ride in the Tour of Denmark for Team RadioShack.[4]
On March 26, 2009, he won the individual pursuit at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and again at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships on March 25, 2010.
On September 22, 2010 the BMC Racing Team announced that Phinney would become part of BMC in 2011, joining a team that included Cadel Evans, George Hincapie and Alessandro Ballan.[5]
[edit] Career highlights
- 2007
- 1st
Junior World Time Trial Champion - 1st
Individual Pursuit, National Track Champion - 1st Prologue Tour de l'Abitibi
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Abitibi
- 2008
- 1st Junior World Individual Pursuit Champion
- 1st I Juniors National Individual Pursuit Champion
- 1st Juniors National 1000m Time Trial Champion
- 1st Juniors National Team Pursuit Champion
- 2009
- 1st Individual Pursuit UCI Track World Championship
- 1st National Individual Pursuit Champion
- 1st National Points Race Champion
- 1st National Team Pursuit Champion
- 1st Prologue Fleche du Sud
- 1st U23 Paris-Roubaix
- 2010
- 1st Under 23 World Time Trial Champion
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st Individual Pursuit UCI Track World Championship
- 1st Stage 2b Le Triptyque de Monts et Châteaux
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of the Gila
- 1st Overall Olympia's Tour
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st U23 Paris-Roubaix
- 1st Prologue Tour of Utah
- 1st Stage 3 TT Tour of Utah
- 1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir
- 2011
- 4th Overall Eneco Tour
- 1st Prologue
- 2nd Prologue Tour de Romandie
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Athlete Biography - PHINNEY Taylor". Beijing Olympics official website. http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/8/221568.shtml.
- ^ "Phinney records new track record on way to third national title". cyclingnews.com. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/track.php?id=track/2008/oct08/USAnationals08/USAnationals083.
- ^ "Phinney tabbed for Armstrongs team". dailycamera.com. http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/sep/24/phinney-tabbed-armstrongs-team/.
- ^ "Phinney to ride for Armstrong's RadioShack team". si.com. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/cycling/wires/07/29/2080.ap.cyc.radioshack.phinney.1st.ld.writethru.0358/index.html.[dead link]
- ^ "BMC racing team signs Taylor Phinney". BMC-racing.com. http://www.bmc-racing.com/int-en/team/news/team/bmc-racing-team-signs-taylor-phinney.html.
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- Taylor Phinney profile at Cycling Archives
- Taylor Phinney on Twitter
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| Preceded by David Zabriskie |
USA National Road Race Champion 2010 |
Succeeded by David Zabriskie |
