fullname updated birth_place discipline birth_date role article_title name
connie carpenter-phinney september 7 , 2008 madison , wisconsin , united states of america road , track , and speed skating 26 february 1957 rider connie carpenter-phinney
 connie carpenter-phinney
connie carpenter-phinney

connie carpenter-phinney -lrb- born february 26 , 1957 in madison , wisconsin -rrb- is an american retired racing cyclist and speed skater who won four medals in world cycling championship competitions -lrb- both road and track cycling -rrb- in the late 1970s and early 1980s .
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 .
before turning to cycling , carpenter was a speed skater , one of many athletes who excelled in both sports .
as a speed skater , she competed in the 1972 winter olympics , where she finished 7th in the 1500m .
she was fourteen years old at the time , making her the youngest american female winter olympian .
in 1976 , she won the u.s. national overall outdoor title , but an injury prevented her from competing in the olympics that year .
carpenter had trained on a bicycle during the off-season , and after the ankle injury in 1976 , she began racing on the bike .
in 1976 , 1977 , and 1979 , she won the u.s. national road and track pursuit championships .
she added a pair of national criterium championships to her resume before winning the olympic gold medal in 1984 .
she won the race in a sprint over fellow american rebecca twigg .
while a student at the university of california , berkeley her athletic career centered on rowing .
she was a member of cal 's varsity for two seasons .
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 .
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 bmc racing team .
carpenter-phinney was elected to the wisconsin athletic hall of fame in 2001 and is a member of both the u.s. bicycling hall of fame and the u.s. olympic hall of fame .
