Taylor Phinney

Taylor Phinney is the sort of athlete I find genuinely poetic. Picture a 197 cm cyclist from 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.

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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 36)

Origin

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Height

197 cm

Occupation

track cyclist / sport cyclist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

High school

Boulder High School

• Official sitehttps://www.taylorphinney.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/taylorphinney
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20Phinney
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358133

Tags

• Colorado
• track cyclist
• sport cyclist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.