page_title: Taylor Phinney
section_title: Trek–Livestrong (2009–2010)
hierarchical_section_title: Taylor Phinney / Professional career / Trek–Livestrong (2009–2010)
caption_attribution_description: Taylor Phinney in the Individual Pursuit at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championship
context_page_description: Taylor Carpenter-Phinney is an American retired professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2019 for the Trek–Livestrong, BMC Racing Team and EF Education First teams. Phinney specialized in time trials on the road as well as the individual pursuit on the track, winning the world title in the discipline in 2009 and 2010.
context_section_description: On September 24, 2008, Lance Armstrong announced that Phinney had made the under-23 team, which was organized by the group that managed Armstrong's Team RadioShack, Trek–Livestrong. On March 26, 2009, Phinney won the individual pursuit at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and, again, at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships on March 25, 2010. Phinney then switched his focus to the road, winning the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs, the Olympia's Tour overall, in addition to the first four stages and time trials in Tour de l'Avenir and Tour of Utah.
  On July 29, 2010, it was announced that Phinney and teammates Jesse Sergent and Clinton Avery would ride in the Tour of Denmark for Team RadioShack, riding as stagiaires.
caption: Phinney during the 2010 UCI Track World Championships, where he won a gold medal for the individual pursuit
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