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Connie Paraskevin Personal information Full name Constance Anne Paraskevin Born July 4, 1961
Detroit, Michigan, United States of AmericaHeight 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) Weight 55 kg (120 lb; 8.7 st) Team information Discipline Track Role Rider Medal recordCompetitor for 
United StatesTrack Cycling Olympic Games Bronze 1988 Seoul Sprint UCI Track Cycling World Championships Gold 1982 Sprint Gold 1983 Sprint Gold 1984 Sprint Gold 1990 Sprint Silver 1985 Sprint Bronze 1986 Sprint Bronze 1987 Sprint Bronze 1991 Sprint Speed skating World Speed Skating Championships Bronze 1978 ? Bronze 1978 ? Infobox last updated on
16 August 2010Constance Anne Paraskevin, known as Connie (married name Paraskevin-Young; born July 4, 1961) is a retired American professional track cyclist and speed skater. She is a four times sprint world champion, ten times national sprint champion and an Olympic bronze medalist.
Paraskevin began skating at the age of ten, she won two bronze medals at the world speed skating championships in 1978.[1] At the age of 19, she was a member of the US team at the 1980 Winter Olympics although she did not compete. Four years later she competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Paraskevin campaigned to have the women's sprint event included in the 1988 Summer Olympics before going on to win a bronze medal in the event in Seoul. She went on to compete at a further two Summer Olympics before retiring at the end of 1996.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, she is the former wife of the Olympic cyclist Roger Young. Paraskevin also coached the speed skater Bonnie Blair when she briefly dabbled in track cycling.[2] She is now a coach and motivational speaker.
Palmarès
- 1975
- 1st Intermediate Girls, US National Track Championships
- 1976
- 1st Intermediate Girls, US National Track Championships
- 1977
- 1st Junior Women, US National Track Championships
- 1978
- 1st Junior Women, US National Track Championships
- 1979
- 2nd Junior Women, US National Track Championships
- 1981
- 1st US National Criterium Championships
- 2nd Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1982
- 1st
Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships - 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1983
- 1st Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1984
- 1st Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 2nd GP d'Osaka, Japan
- 1985
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships - World Record 200 m - 11.393
- 2nd Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1986
- 3rd Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1987
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint, Pan American Games
- 3rd Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1988
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 3rd Sprint, Olympic Games
- 1989
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint, Sundance Grand Prix, USA
- 3rd Sprint, World Invitational, USA
- 1990
- 1st Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1st Sprint, ABC Olympic Cup, USA
- 1st Sprint, Goodwill Games, USA
- Velo News Oscars - U.S. Female Cyclist of the year.
- 1991
- 1st Sprint, Pre Olympic Track event, Spain
- 3rd Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 3rd Sprint, G.P. De Paris, France
- 1992
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1993
- 3rd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen
- 3rd Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1994
- 1st Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1995
- World Record 200 m - 11.064, set at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 2nd Sprint, Pan American Games, Argentina
- 1996
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
References
- ^ Kristin Smith (1991). "Of pedals and medals: reigning champion of women's match sprint cycling, Connie Paraskevin-Young also champions the cause for young athletes". American Fitness. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0675/is_n3_v9/ai_10872987.
- ^ "SPORTS WORLD SPECIALS: CYCLING; A Smooth-as-Ice Switch". New York Times. 5 June 1989. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2DE113CF936A35755C0A96F948260&scp=8&sq=Connie%20Paraskevin&st=cse.
External links
- Official website
- Connie Paraskevin profile at Cycling Archives
Categories:- 1961 births
- Living people
- American cyclists
- Female cyclists
- Track cyclists
- American speed skaters
- Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic speed skaters of the United States
- Olympic cyclists of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in cycling
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