Connie Carpenter-Phinney

Helen Constance " Connie " Carpenter - Phinney, born in Carpenter, ( born February 26, 1957 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a former American cyclist, speed skater and rower.

Sports Career

Connie Carpenter - Phinney was a versatile athlete: your athletic career she began as a speed skater. As such, they took at the age of 15 years participated in the Olympic Winter Games Sapporo in 1972 and finished seventh over 1500 m. In 1976 it was U.S. Champion in the all around, but could not participate in the Olympics because of an ankle injury. During her studies at the University of Berkeley, they belonged to the rowing team of the university, who won the U.S. Championships.

As a speed skater During her time Connie Carpenter - Phinney had trained in the summer on the wheel; after her injury, she turned to all the sport of cycling. 1976, 1977 and 1979, she was national champion in various disciplines to rail and road. Overall, she won twelve U.S. Championships as a cyclist.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles Connie Carpenter - Phinney won the gold medal in the road race, the first for women in Olympic history. She beat her compatriot Rebecca Twigg here to centimeters by it applied the tiger leap that her husband had taught her. The race was considered the same as a world championship. The gold medal of Carpenter was the second Olympic medal for a cyclist from the United States after 72 years; at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 Carl Schutte had the first, won a bronze. Connie Carpenter - Phinney Total also won four medals at cycling world championships.

Honors

1990 Connie Carpenter - Phinney was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame

Family and career

Connie Carpenter - Phinney now lives in Boulder, Colorado, and organized "Bike Camps ". My hobby is painting. She is married to the cyclist Davis Phinney; The couple wrote the book "Training for Cycling ". Their son is the cyclist Taylor Phinney.