High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Connie Carpenter Phinney (born February 26, 1957 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American former 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 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