Name: Chris Murphy
Sport: Cycling
Discipline(s):
Track Cycling, Road Cycling
Event(s): Individual Pursuit, Time Trial, Road Race
Classification: MC5
Height: 6-0
DOB: 9/20/1984
Birthplace: Long Beach, Calif.
Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
College: California State University – Fullerton ’07, Music Performance
Paralympic Experience
- Two-time Paralympian (2016, 2020)
- Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, 5th (track time trial); 6th (track team sprint); 11th (track individual pursuit); No Result (road race)
- Paralympic Games Rio 2016, 4th (track team sprint)' 8th (track time trial); 10th (road time trial)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2022 Track – silver (time trial); 6th (team sprint)
- Years of participation: Track – 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022; Road - 2014
- Medals: 8 (2 golds, 2 silvers, 4 bronzes)
- Gold – 2017 (time trial, team sprint)
- Silver – 2022 (time trial); 2020 (time trial)
- Bronze – 2020 (team sprint), 2019 (time trial, team sprint), 2017 (pursuit)
Personal:
Murphy first hopped on a bike as a means of commuting to a part-time job in LA, then began to enter national road cycling competitions...He sustained a brachial plexus injury at birth that resulted in permanent nerve damage from his neck through his arm...One day during recovery, he came across an article about a para-cyclist with a similar impairment...After adding track events to his repertoire, he was invited to a talent identification camp before making the U.S. Paralympics Cycling National Team in 2014...In 2016, he qualified for the U.S. Paralympic Team that was headed to Rio...Son of David and Quang Murphy...Married to Kelly Casebere...Appeared as a background musician in the 2012 Warner Brother’s Motion Picture Gangster Squad...Was a Disneyland musician from 2007-12...Hobbies include cooking, reading and performing music.
