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Constance 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 finished third at two 500m competitions at the world sprint speed skating championships in 1978 but did not medal. At the age of 19, she was a member of the US team at the
1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected ...
although she did not compete. Four years later she competed at the
1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...
. Paraskevin campaigned to have the women's sprint event included in the
1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...
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. She is now the founder/director of the Connie Cycling Foundation.


Palmarès

;1975 :1st Intermediate Girls,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1976 :1st Intermediate Girls,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1977 :1st Junior Women,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1978 :1st Junior Women,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1979 :2nd Junior Women,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1981 :1st
US National Criterium Championships The United States National Criterium Championships are held annually and run by the national governing body, USA Cycling. The event has formerly been held at venues including Denver, Colorado, Downers Grove, Illinois, and Glencoe, Illinois. The 201 ...
:2nd Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1982 :1st Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :1st Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1983 :1st Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :1st Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1984 :1st Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :2nd GP d'Osaka, Japan ;1985 :1st Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
- ''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 The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:1st Sprint,
Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ...
:3rd Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships ;1988 :1st Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:3rd Sprint, Olympic Games ;1989 :1st Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
: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 The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1993 :3rd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen :3rd Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1994 :1st Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
;1995 :1st Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:2nd Sprint, Pan American Games, Argentina ;1996 :1st Sprint,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paraskevin, Connie 1961 births Living people American female cyclists American female 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 bronze medalists for the United States in cycling UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in cycling Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States American track cyclists Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games 21st-century American women