Taylor Phinney

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Taylor Phinney Road cycling
Taylor Phinney (2016)
Taylor Phinney (2016)
To person
Nickname Mini Phinney
Date of birth June 27, 1990
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Train / street
Driver type Time trial
End of career 2019
Team (s)
2009–2010
2011–2016
2017–2019 		Trek Livestrong
BMC Racing Team
Cannondale Drapac / Education First
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2009, 2010 Jersey rainbow.svg - single chase
UCI Road World Championships
2014, 2015 Jersey rainbow.svg - team time trial
UCI WorldTour
2012 - a stage of the Giro d'Italia
2011 - a stage of the Eneco Tour
2013 - one stage tour of Poland
Last updated: October 22, 2019

Taylor Phinney (born June 27, 1990 in Boulder , Colorado ) is a retired American track and road cyclist who was four times world champion in the elite area during his career.

Athletic career

As the son of Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter-Phinney , his athletic path seemed already prescribed. His father won the bronze medal in the team time trial at the 1984 Olympic Games and two stages of the Tour de France , his mother was a speed skater and later a successful cyclist (four World Championship medals, 1984 Olympic champion in road racing). But first Taylor Phinney decided to play football . It was only at the age of 15 that he began cycling after attending the Tour de France and meeting Lance Armstrong .

Initially Phinney drove for the junior team of today's UCI WorldTeam Garmin-Cervélo , Team 5280-Felt . In his first full season in 2006, Phinney won eleven national races.

In 2007 Taylor Phinney made his first international appearance. At the junior tour Tour de l'Abitibi he won the prologue as well as the team time trial with his teammates from the national team and also won the overall standings. At the Junior World Championships in Aguascalientes , he won the gold medal in the individual time trial on the road. In 2008 Phinney was successful on part of the Tour du Pays de Vaud . At the Junior World Championships, he won the bronze medal in the individual time trial on the road. In the 2010 season he took part in the Tour of Qatar as a member of his Trek Livestrong U23 team , where he finished in seventh and eighth stage positions. In late summer he became a stagiaire with Team RadioShack .

On the track Phinney was 2007 US champion in the individual pursuit of the elite class. The following year he won the World Cup race in Los Angeles in the single pursuit and was first in the overall 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 the junior world record in the pursuit with a time of 3: 16.589 minutes until the Australian Michael Hepburn improved it.

2010 was the most successful year of his career for Phinney, who is regarded by experts as a great talent. He not only defended his title at Paris – Roubaix ( U23 ), but also won, for example, the Olympia's Tour including four stage wins. Most of all , Phinney was successful in the time trial . Not only did he become the US individual time trial champion, where he beat Levi Leipheimer , among others , but he was also world time trial champion in the U23 class in Geelong, Australia . In the Espoirs road race two days later, he shared the bronze medal with the Canadian Guillaume Boivin .

In 2011 Phinney did not drive for the RadioShack team to Lance Armstrong , but for the BMC Racing Team . Phinney cited the reason that he could continue to drive “two-pronged” - on rail and on the road - at BMC. In his first year at BMC, he won the individual time trial of the Eneco Tour , his first race on the UCI WorldTour , and was 4th overall. In 2012 he won the opening time trial of the Giro d'Italia , finished fourth in the road race and in the time trial at the Olympic Games in London . His first top placement in a classic he achieved with 7th place at Milan – Sanremo 2013 . He won a stage at the WorldTour Race Poland Tour 2013 after he was able to pull away from the peloton shortly before the finish . It was his first victory in an elite race of UCI category 1 or higher ("professional race") that he did not achieve in a time trial.

In May 2014 Phinney became the American time trial champion. In the following street race he fell on a descent and suffered a complicated double broken leg. This serious injury meant that he could not contest races for a year. He was only able to start a race again in August 2015 and finished third in the Tour of Utah on stage three. Phinney made his final comeback on the international stage in March 2016, near Gent-Wevelgem . In the same year he became the American time trial champion. At the UCI Road World Championships in 2014 and 2015 , he won the team time trial title with BMC.

For the 2017 season, Phinney moved to the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team . At the Paris-Roubaix 2018 Cycling Monument , he was able to build on his U23 successes in this race and finished eighth.

At the end of the 2019 season, in which Phinney only competed 25 days of racing, he retired from his active career and added: “Ultimately, I feel like my body made this decision for me. As a professional I was injured longer than healthy. And I felt it was time to trade in my chips and leave the casino. "

Awards

  • 2008: Junior cyclist of the year
  • 2010: US Cyclist of the Year
  • 2010: Athlete of the Month for October in the election of the US National Olympic Committee ( USOC )

successes

Street

2007
  • World Champion World Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
2008
  • bronze World Championship - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2019

train

2007
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American champion - one's pursuit
2008
  • Union-Cycliste-Internationale-Logo.svg World Cup Los Angeles - One Pursuit
  • Jersey rainbow.svg World Champion - Single Pursuit (Juniors)
  • MaillotEEUU.PNGAmerican champion - 1000m time trial
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American champion - one's pursuit
  • MaillotEEUU.PNGAmerican Champion - Team Pursuit (with Daniel Holloway , Brad Huff and Colby Pearce )
2009
  • Jersey rainbow.svg World Champion - Individual Pursuit
  • Union-Cycliste-Internationale-Logo.svg World Cup Copenhagen - One Pursuit
  • Union-Cycliste-Internationale-Logo.svg World Cup Copenhagen - 1000 m time trial
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American champion - one's pursuit
  • MaillotEEUU.PNGAmerican Champion - Team Pursuit (with Julian Kyer , Ian Moir and Justin Williams )
  • MaillotEEUU.PNGAmerican champion - points race
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American champion - points race (U23)
2010
  • Jersey rainbow.svg World Champion - Individual Pursuit

Important placements

Monuments of cycling
Monument to cycling 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Milan – Sanremo - 113 7th - - - - - -
Tour of Flanders - - - 40 - 61 - 100 -
Paris – Roubaix - 15th 23 30th - 49 - 8th -
Liège – Bastogne – Liège - - - - - - - - -
Lombardy tour - - - - - - - - -
Grand Tours
Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 155 DNF - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - - 159 136 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España DNF - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Taylor Phinney  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Taylor Phinney ended his career at the age of 29. In: radsport-news.com. October 17, 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Retirements in 2019 - goodbye to the peloton's working class heroes. In: velonews.com. October 21, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 5280 Magazine: Project Taylor. ( Memento of August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: slipstreamsports.com , accessed on March 4, 2013
  4. ↑ treklivestrongu23.com: Taylor Phinney << U23 Team ( Memento from February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Taylor Phinney sets world record. ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: cyclelicio.us , June 19, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cyclelicio.us
  6. ^ Phinney: America's next great cyclist? ( Memento from August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: statesman.com , June 21, 2010 (English)
  7. ↑ US talent signs professional contract with Evans team - BMC snatches RadioShack Phinney away. In: radsport-news.com , September 22, 2010
  8. ↑ Phinney breaks the series of sprinter victories in Katowice. In: radsport-news.com. July 31, 2013, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ US Championships: BMC pro Taylor Phinney suffers a double broken leg. rad-net, May 27, 2014, accessed May 29, 2014 .
  10. ↑ radsport-news.com - Phinney: Comeback is in the stars. In: radsport-news.com. May 3, 2015, accessed May 4, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Phinney shows a lot of mental strength during the comeback. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed August 5, 2015 .
  12. ^ Sadhbh O'Shea: No pressure on Phinney at the Classics. In: Cyclingnews. March 24, 2016, accessed March 27, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Taylor Phinney Accepts the 2008 Junior Cyclist of the Year ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: howtodothings.com
  14. ↑ Phinney and Abbott earn USA Cycling Athlete of the Year honors. In: usacycling.org
  15. ^ Phinney named male athlete of the month by the US Olympic Committee. In: cyclingnews.com
personal data
SURNAME Phinney, Taylor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American track and road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulder , Colorado , United States