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Mar 26, 2009 2:59 pm US/Mountain

Boulder's Phinney Wins at World Championships

PRUSZKOW, Poland (AP) ― Cyclist Taylor Phinney of Boulder won the individual pursuit title at the track world championships on Thursday.

Phinney outpaced Jack Bobridge of Australia with a time of 4 minutes, 17.631 seconds to win his first world title. Bobridge finished almost 3 seconds back.

"I came here and definitely expected myself to win," Phinney said. "I came and did what I had to do, and it feels good." The 18-year-old Phinney, the son of 1984 Olympic medalists Connie Carpenter-Phinney and Davis Phinney, set a new American record of 4 minutes, 15.160 seconds in qualifying earlier in the day, breaking the mark he set at the World Cup last month in Copenhagen.

"My mom was pursuit world champion, my dad was a great sprinter, so I sort of see myself as having this big genetic advantage over everybody else. It's sort of written in my gene code that I should be good at this event," Phinney said. "So it's something that I take forward and have a little mental edge over everybody else."



 

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