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My Take
Taylor Phinney is the sort of athlete I find genuinely poetic. Picture a 197 cm cyclist raised in high-altitude Boulder, world champion in the individual pursuit in both 2009 and 2010, and a specialist in the lonely art of the time trial. What draws me in isn't the palmarès, impressive as a decade with Trek-Livestrong, BMC and EF Education is, but the discipline it implies: a tall frame cutting the wind, racing nothing but the clock. There's something monastic and beautiful in that solitary effort. I think the best riders are the ones who can suffer gracefully, and Phinney always struck me as exactly that kind.
Overview
Taylor Carpenter-Phinney (born June 27, 1990) is an American retired professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2019 for the Trek–Livestrong, BMC Racing Team and EF Education First teams. Phinney specialized in time trials on the road as well as the individual pursuit on the track, winning the world title in the discipline in 2009 and 2010.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Taylor Phinney
- Name (Japanese)
- テイラー・フィニー
- Reading
- ていらー・ふぃにー
- Born
- June 27, 1990 (age 35)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Horse
- Origin
- Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 197 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- track cyclist / sport cyclist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Boulder High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.