Education
Bachelor Physical,, 1981
Mississippi Kinesiology (University of Colorado) 1990.
speed skater rower bicycle racer
Bachelor Physical,, 1981
Mississippi Kinesiology (University of Colorado) 1990.
She remains the youngest American woman to compete at the Winter Olympics. Before turning to cycling, Carpenter was a speed skater, one of many athletes who excelled in both sports. She was fourteen years old at the time, making her the youngest American female Winter Olympian.
Carpenter had trained on a bicycle during the off-season, and after the ankle injury in 1976, she began racing on the bike.
She added a pair of national criterium championships to her resume before winning the Olympic gold medal in 1984. While a student at the University of California, Berkeley her athletic career centered on rowing.
Carpenter-Phinney is married to fellow Olympic medalist and retired professional cyclist Davis Phinney, with whom she has two children, Taylor and Kelsey. Taylor competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, the eighteen-year-old coming seventh in the individual pursuit.
In London, Taylor earned fourth-place finishes in both the road race and individual time trial.
As of 2012, he is a professional cyclist with the Business Service Management Racing team
She also won the gold medal in the cycling road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, as well as twelve United States. national championships. In 1976, she won the United States. national overall outdoor title, but an injury prevented her from competing in the Olympics that year. In 1976, 1977, and 1979, she won the United States. national road and track pursuit championships. She won the race in a sprint over fellow American Rebecca Twigg. In 1979, her varsity team finished second nationally, and in 1980 she reached the top of the collegiate rowing world with a national championship in the varsity four.
She was a member of Cal"s varsity for two seasons. Carpenter-Phinney was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001 and is a member of both the United States. Bicycling Hall of Fame and the United States. Olympic Hall of Fame.
