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Davis Phinney Personal information Full name Davis Phinney Born July 10, 1959
Boulder, Colorado, United States of AmericaTeam information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Major wins - 2 stages Tour de France
- 1988 Coors Classic
Medal recordCompetitor for the 
United StatesRoad bicycle racing Olympic Games Bronze Los Angeles 1984 Team time trial Infobox last updated on
July 18, 2008Davis Phinney (born July 10, 1959 in Boulder, Colorado) is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States. He was known as a fast sprinter[citation needed], and claims to have won the most races in American history.[1] In 1986, he became the first American to win a stage at the Tour de France, while riding on the American-based team 7-Eleven Cycling Team. His racing career spanned two decades and included two stage victories in the Tour de France, a United States National Road Race Championships title, and the 1984 Olympic Bronze Medal in the Men's 100 km Team Time Trial, alongside Ron Kiefel, Clarence Knickman, and Andrew Weaver.
Since retiring from cycling, Davis has remained active as a cycling sports commentator, public speaker, journalist, and avid Nordic ski racer. He is married to champion cyclist Connie Carpenter-Phinney, with whom he has two children, Taylor and Kelsey. On Thursday, August 9, 2007, Taylor became the Junior World Time Trial champion at the 2007 UCI Junior World Road and Track Championships held in Aguascalientes[citation needed], Mexico, and on September 29, 2010, he became the 2010 UCI Under 23 World Time Trial champion[citation needed].
Davis was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 40, and established the Davis Phinney Foundation in 2004, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The Boulder, Colorado-based foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of people with Parkinson's disease – today and in future.
The Davis Phinney Foundation aims to inspire and inform people living with Parkinson’s through:
- Information on how to live well with PD through the Victory Summit and Every Victory Counts programs
- Investment in research that can improve quality of life
- Impacting the lives of people with PD through funding of exercise and speech programs
- Encouragement of those impacted by the disease to celebrate the daily victories in their lives
Major results
- 1981
- 1st, Points classification, Coors Classic
- 1982
- 1st, Points classification, Coors Classic
- 1983
- 1st (Gold), Pan American Games - Team time trial
- 1st, Points classification, Coors Classic
- 1984
- 3rd (Bronze), Summer Olympics - Team time trial
- 5th, Summer Olympics - Individual road race
- 1st, Points classification, Coors Classic
- 1985
- 1st, Points classification, Coors Classic
- 1986
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- Winner stage 3
- 1st, Points classification, Coors Classic
- 1987
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- Winner stage 12
- 1st, Points classification, Coors Classic
- 1988
- 1st, Overall, Coors Classic
- 1st, Overall, Tour of the Americas (Points classification and 3 stage wins)
- 2nd, Points classification, Tour de France
- 105th, Overall, Tour de France
- 1989
- 2 stage wins, Tour de Trump
- 1990
- 153rd, Overall, Tour de France
- 1991
- 1st,
USA National Road Race Championship - 1st, Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
- 1st, Points classification, Tour du Pont (and 2 stage wins)
- 1993
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Categories:- 1959 births
- Living people
- American cyclists
- American cycling road race champions
- American Tour de France stage winners
- Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of the United States
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- People with Parkinson's disease
- United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductees
- Cycling announcers
- Cycling journalists
- Olympic medalists in cycling
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