Taylor Phinney

Taylor Phinney

Phinney at the 2012 Paris–Roubaix
Personal information
Full name Taylor Phinney
Born (1990-06-27) June 27, 1990
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Height 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight 82 kg (181 lb; 12.9 st)[1]
Team information
Current team BMC Racing Team
Discipline Road and track
Role Rider
Rider type Time Trial/Classic specialist[1]
Professional team(s)
2009–2010 Trek–Livestrong
2011– BMC Racing Team
Major wins

Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2012)

Stage races

Dubai Tour (2014)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships (2010, 2014)
Infobox last updated on
20 September 2015

Taylor Phinney (born June 27, 1990) is an American racing cyclist who rides professionally for UCI ProTeam BMC Racing Team,[2] specializing in time trials and one day classics on the road, and in the individual pursuit on the track.

Early life and amateur career

Phinney was born on June 27, 1990 to former professional racing cyclist Davis Phinney and former Olympic gold medal racing cyclist and speed skater Connie Carpenter-Phinney.[3]

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.[4]

Professional career

Trek-Livestrong (2009–2010)

On September 24, 2008, Lance Armstrong announced that Phinney had been named to the Under-23 team being organized by the group that managed Armstrong's Team RadioShack, Trek-Livestrong.[5] 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. Phinney then switched his focus to the road, winning the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs, the Olympia's Tour overall (and the first four stages), and time trials in the Tour de l'Avenir and Tour of Utah.

Phinney during the 2010 UCI Track World Championships, where he won a gold medal for the individual pursuit.

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,[6] riding as stagiaires.

BMC Racing (2011–present)

Phinney competing in the 2012 Olympics time trial in London

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.[7] The highlights of Phinney's first season with BMC was a fourth-place finish in the Eneco Tour.

Phinney started the 2012 season by helping his team win the Giro del Trentino's team time trial, where he wore the leader's jersey for a day.[8] His early target for the 2012 season was the opening stage of the Giro d'Italia, which he duly won to wear the leader's jersey, the maglia rosa, becoming just the third American to do so following Andy Hampsten in 1988 and Christian Vande Velde in 2008. Phinney then switched his focus to the Olympic Games, targeting the road race and time trial, where he finished fourth in each event. He would go on to win the stage 7 individual time trial of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Phinney participated in the 2012 UCI World Road Race Championships. He was part of the six man BMC team that took silver in the team time trial, and Phinney also finished second to Tony Martin in the individual event, missing out on becoming World Champion by only five seconds.

In the turmoil of the Lance Armstrong-USADA affair, Phinney sent a Tweet congratulating his teammate Steve Cummings for his stage win at the Tour of Beijing, saying “He [Cummings], like me, follows his own personal policy of no caffeine pills and no painkillers. Purest of the pure!”[9] Phinney later explained his comment by stating that although legal, caffeine pills and mild painkillers were often used in the peloton during races and that some riders even crushed them and mixed them in water bottles. He stated that he was entirely against that practice, and doping in general.[9]

On the penultimate stage of the 2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Phinney found himself well in arrears of the leaders on a tough finishing circuit, which included a climb at Sant'Elpidio a Mare with gradients reaching 27%, in heavy rain. Around thirty other riders in the group abandoned with over 100 km (62 mi) to go, but Phinney rode on alone in the hope of making the time limit, so he could compete in the next day's time trial. Ultimately, Phinney missed the cut by over ten minutes. In the early part of the 2014 season, Phinney won the inaugural Dubai Tour after also winning the opening time-trial. In May, Phinney won a stage of the Tour of California, using excellent descending skills to break away from a reduced peloton with more than 23 km until the finish, and managed to hold on to win by 12 seconds. Soon after, Phinney was victorious for a second time at the United States National Time Trial Championships, but at the United States National Road Race Championships just two days later, Phinney suffered a career-threatening crash after crashing into a guard-rail while attempting to avoid a motorcycle on the descent of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. He required surgery after suffering a compound fracture to his tibia and a severed patellar tendon. Phinney never wore his national jersey as he remained out of action for a year, having initially been given a six- to eight-week lay-off period.[3][10][11]

Palmares

2007
1st Junior World Time Trial Championships
1st National Individual Pursuit Championships
Tour de l'Abitibi
1st Stage 1 ITT & 2
2008
1st Junior World Individual Pursuit Championships
National Junior Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Track time trial
1st Team pursuit
2009
1st Individual Pursuit UCI Track World Championships
National Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Team pursuit
1st U23 Paris-Roubaix
1st Stage 1 Flèche du Sud
2010
1st Under-23 World Time Trial Championships
1st National Time Trial Championships
1st Individual Pursuit UCI Track World Championships
1st Overall Olympia's Tour
1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2 & 3
1st U23 Paris-Roubaix
Tour of Utah
1st Prologue & Stage 3 (ITT)
1st Stage 2b Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
1st Stage 4 Tour of the Gila
1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir
2011
4th Overall Eneco Tour
1st Prologue
2012
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
Held after Stages 1-3
1st Stage 7 (ITT) USA Pro Cycling Challenge
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro del Trentino
Road World Championships
2nd Team time trial
2nd Individual time trial
3rd Chrono des Nations
4th Olympic Road Race
4th Olympic Time Trial
2013
1st Stage 4 Tour de Pologne
3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
3rd Giro di Toscana
Road World Championships
4th Team time trial
5th Individual time trial
7th Milan – San Remo
2014
1st National Time Trial Championships
1st Overall Dubai Tour
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
1st Stage 5 Tour of California
7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2015
1st World Team Time Trial Championships
1st Stage 1 USA Pro Cycling Challenge
2016
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014
Pink jersey Giro — 155 WD —
Yellow jersey Tour — — — —
red jersey Vuelta WD — — —

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

References

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
David Zabriskie		 United States National Time Trial
Champion
2010 		Succeeded by
David Zabriskie
Preceded by
Tom Zirbel		 United States National Time Trial
Champion
2014 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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