![]() Carpenter-Phinney at the 1974 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Helen Constance Carpenter-Phinney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. | February 26, 1957|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road, track, and speed skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born February 26, 1957) is an American retired racing cyclist and speed skater who won four medals in World Cycling Championship competitions (both road and track cycling) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was a three-time overall winner of the Coors International Bicycle Classic. She also won the gold medal in the cycling road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, as well as twelve U.S. national championships. She remains the youngest American woman to compete at the Winter Olympics.