Taylor Phinney
Taylor Phinney (* June 27, 1990 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American track and road racing cyclist.
Career
As the son of Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter - Phinney be sporting way seemed already prescribed. His father won at the 1984 Olympic Games bronze in the team time trial and two stages of the Tour de France, his mother was a speed skater and later successful cyclist ( four World Championship medals, 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the road race ). But first, Taylor Phinney decided for football. Only at the age of 15 he began, after the visit of the Tour de France and a meeting with Lance Armstrong, the cycling.
First Phinney rode for the junior team of today's ProTeam Garmin-Cervélo team, Team 5280 Felt. In his first full season in 2006, Phinney has won eleven national race.
2007 Phinney joined internationally in appearance for the first time. At the Junior Tour Tour de l' Abitibi he was the prologue as well as with his teammates the national team win the team time trial and decide the overall title for themselves. At the Junior World Championships in Aguascalientes, he won the gold medal in the individual time trial on the road. 2008 Phinney was successful on a part of the Tour du Pays de Vaud. At the World Junior Championships he won the bronze medal in the time trial on the road. In the 2010 season he took as a member of his Trek Livestrong U23 team for the first time participated in a professional race on the road. In the Tour of Qatar Phinney reached a seventh and eighth stage space. In late summer he was a stagiaire with Team RadioShack and took part in the Tour of Denmark, but he had to quit due to an injury after a fall.
On the railway in 2007 Phinney American champion in the individual pursuit of the elite class. The following year he won in the individual pursuit World Cup race in Los Angeles and was first in the standings together with Volodymyr Djudja. At the Junior World Championships, he won gold in this discipline. He also started at the Olympic Games in Beijing in the individual pursuit, where he finished seventh. From June 2008 to February 2009 Phinney held with a time of 3:16,589 minutes the junior world record in the pursuit until corrected him the Australian Michael Hepburn.
2010 was for the experts viewed as a great talent Phinney was the most successful year of his career so far. He not only defended his title at Paris -Roubaix ( U23 ), but also won for example the Olympia's Tour, including four stage wins. But above all, in the time trial showed Phinney outstanding performance. So he was not only American time trial champion, where he among other Levi Leipheimer beat, but he also became world champion in the time trial of the U23 in the Australian Geelong. In the road race in the espoir, two days later, he shared in common with the Canadian Guillaume Boivin the bronze medal.
2011 Phinney was not driving for Team RadioShack to Lance Armstrong, but for the BMC Racing Team. The reason called Phinney that he will continue at BMC " double track " - could go - on track and on the road. In 2012 he won the opening time trial of the Giro d' Italia finished at the Olympic Games in London in the road race and time trial respectively in fourth place.
Achievements - road
- World Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors )
- World Championships - individual time trial (Juniors )
- Prolog Flèche du Sud ( ITT )
- Paris -Roubaix ( U23 )
- A stage of the Monts et Châteaux Le triptyque
- A stage in Tour of the Gila
- Four stages and Appreciation Olympia's Tour
- Paris -Roubaix ( U23 )
- Prologue and a stage ( ITT ) Tour of Utah
- Prologue Tour de l' Avenir
- United States American Champion - Individual Time Trial
- World Champion - Individual Time Trial ( U23 )
- World Cup - road race ( U23 )
- Eneco Tour prologue
- Team time trial Giro del Trentino
- Stage 1 ( ECF ) Giro d' Italia
- Fourth in the Olympic road race
- Fourth in the Olympic time trial
- A stage ( ECF ) USA Pro Cycling Challenge
- World Cup - Team Time Trial
- World Championships - individual time trial
- TTT Tour of Qatar
- A stage in Tour of Poland
- Dubai tour and a stage
Achievements - train
- United States American Masters - individual pursuit
- World Cup Los Angeles - individual pursuit
- World Champions - One of persecution (Juniors )
- United States American Champion - 1000m time trial
- United States American Masters - individual pursuit
- United States American Masters - Team Pursuit ( with Daniel Holloway, Brad Huff and Colby Pearce )
- World Champions - One of persecution
- World Cup Copenhagen - individual pursuit
- World Cup Copenhagen - 1000m time trial
- United States American Masters - individual pursuit
- United States American Masters - Team Pursuit ( with Julian Kyer, Ian Moir and Justin Williams)
- United States American Masters - Points race
- United States American Masters - Points race ( U23 )
- World Champions - One of persecution
Awards
- 2008: Junior cyclist of the year
- 2010: Riders of the year in the U.S.
- 2010: Athlete of the Month October at the election of the national Olympic committees of the United States ( USOC )
Team
- 2006 Team 5280 - Felt (Juniors )
- 2007 Team 5280 - Felt (Juniors )
- 2008 Team VMG - Felt U23
- 2009 Trek Livestrong
- 2010 Trek Livestrong U23
- 2011 BMC
- 2012 BMC
- 2013 BMC