Carmen Small

Carmen Small
	Carmen Small (2016)
To person
Date of birth	April 20, 1980
nation	United States
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Team Virtu Cycling
function	Sports director
Most important successes
	UCI Road World Championships 2014 - team time trial 2013 team time trial Pan American Championships 2015 individual time trial
Team (s) as sporting director
2018–	Team Virtu Cycling
	Last updated: October 7, 2017

Carmen Small (born April 20, 1980 in Durango ) is a sports director in cycling from the United States . As an active cyclist , she was twice world champion in the team time trial .

Athletic career

From childhood on, Carmen Small was very athletic and engaged in many sports, including cross-country skiing , basketball , volleyball and athletics . She played volleyball in her school as well as in her college and university team and began to compete in triathlons . She graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in mathematics .

From 2006, Small turned to cycling. The following year, she finished twelfth at the US road championships. In 2012 she was third in the national road championship.

In 2013, Carmen Small became the US individual time trial champion and won the Canadian Chrono Gatineau race . In September 2013, together with her team ( Lisa Brennauer , Katie Colclough , Evelyn Stevens , Ellen van Dijk and Trixi Worrack ) from Specialized-lululemon at the UCI Road World Championships 2013 in Florence, she became world champion in the team time trial and the year after (with Chantal Blaak , Lisa Brennauer, Karol-Ann Canuel , Evelyn Stevens and Trixi Worrack) one more time. In 2015 she became the Pan American champion in the individual time trial.

In 2017 Small switched to the Danish team Virtu Cycling . At the end of the season, she ended her active career and became the sports director of the team.

After her active career, Small founded the Cyclists' Alliance , a professional association of female cyclists, together with Iris Slappendel, who had also retired from active sport, and the active athlete Gracie Elvin .