• 2010- UCI Track World Championships: Individual Pursuit- 1st Place
• 2010- U23 World Championships: Road Race- 3rd Place
• 2010- U23 World Time Trial Champion
• 2010- National Professional Time Trial Champion- Youngest winner ever
• 2010- Olympia’s Tour: 1st Place overall, won 4 of 7 individual stages
• 2010- U23 Paris-Roubaix- 1st Place
• 2009- UCI Track World Championships: Individual Pursuit- 1st Place, Youngest elite winner ever
• 2009- National Championships: Individual Pursuit- 1st Place
• 2009- National Points Race- 1st Place
• 2009- National Championships: Team Pursuit- 1st Place
• 2009- UCI Track World Cup: 4,000m Individual Pursuit- Gold medal- Set new U.S. Record
• 2009- UCI Track World Cup Finals (Copenhagen): 1k- Gold medal- Set new American Record
• 2008- Jr. World Championships (Cape Town, South Africa)- Gold medal
• 2008- Named to 2008 U.S. Olympic Cycling Team (Beijing, China)
• 2008- USA Cycling Olympic Team Trials (Los Angeles, CA)- Set junior world record in 3,000 meter individual pursuit race
• 2008- UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Manchester, England)- Set junior world record in 3,000 meeter track pursuit
• 2008- UCI World Cup Championships (Los Angeles)- 1st Place
• 2007- National Championship: Track, Pursuit, Elite- 1st Place
• 2007- Junior World Championship: Road, ITT (Mexico)- 1st Place
• 2006- Junior National Championship: Cylo-cross (USA)- 3rd Place
Taylor Phinney is considered one of USA Cycling’s brightest hopes for the future and is a strong medal contender for London 2012. Taylor is a five-time World Champion and has earned nine medals at the World Championships as a Junior, U23 and Elite competitor.
Following a January ’08 World Cup win, at the March 2008 time trials in Manchester, England, Phinney landed himself a spot on the 2008 Olympic Cycling team to compete in Beijing, China.
In 2009, Taylor earned a Gold medal and set a new American record in both the UCI Track World Cup 4,000m Individual Pursuit, and in the 1k finals. He also won the Gold at both the 2009 and 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Taylor followed up his Gold medal at the 2010 World Championships with a Bronze medal in the U23 World Cycling Championships Road Race just two days later. Taylor is the youngest Elite World Champion ever (2009 in the Individual Pursuit) and the youngest U.S. Pro Champion in the Road Race Time Trial.
Affectionately known as “Mini Phinney,” racing is in his DNA. Taylor is the son of former professional cyclist Davis Phinney, the first American to win a stage of the Tour de France, Olympic bronze medalist and elite pro rider for two decades, and Connie Carpenter, one of just a handful of two-sport Olympians, having first competed at the 1972 Winter Games in speedskating, and later at the 1984 Summer Games as a cyclist where she won the gold medal during the first-ever Olympic women’s cycling event.
Taylor’s goal is to medal at the 2012 Olympics in London. He plans to determine the cycling discipline in which he will compete in late summer 2011.
His website is www.taylorphinney.com Twitter: @taylorphinney
VeloNews
The accolades continue to pour in for two of the United States’ biggest names in 2010. USA Cycling announced Thursday that Taylor Phinney (Trek-Livestrong) and Mara Abbott (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) have earned the inaugural Athlete of the Year awards. (read more)
Champion cyclist Taylor Phinney has been named one of five things to look for at the Road Cycling World Championships.
Universal (read more)
The New York Times
Taylor Phinney, the newly minted United States time trial champion, announced that he would not renew his contract with Lance Armstrong’s RadioShack team, opting to join the BMC Racing team instead.
Phinney, a two-time world champion in the individual pursuit track cycling event, said his decision to switch squads came down to “mental security” as the 2012 Olympics approach. He said RadioShack had offered him a one-year contract, while BMC offered a multiyear deal. Phinney’s goal is to win a gold medal at the 2012 Games. (read more)
Boulder cyclist edges Leipheimer for one of biggest wins of his career
Boulder Daily Camera
Taylor Phinney edged Levi Leipheimer to win the USA Cycling professional time trial championship.
Phinney said Saturday`s win was one of the biggest of his young career. Leipheimer owns four, top-10 finishes in the Tour de France. Leipheimer was third in the 2007 Tour de France.
Saturday`s win was just the latest in a string of accomplishments for the Boulder native. (read more)
The 2009 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships continued at the Home Depot Center velodrome on Friday with both Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./Trek-Livestrong) and Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./American Track Foundation) catching their opponents in their respective men’s and women’s individual pursuit final to add to their collection of national titles. (read more)
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