FIELDS Connor

14 Sep 1992
28
Male
1.83/6'0''
PLANO, TX
 
United States of America
LAS VEGAS, NV
 
United States of America

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
BMX Cycling BMX Racing Men DNS

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Ariake Urban Sports Park
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocationMen
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA1
2012London, GBR7

World Championships
YearLocationMenTime trial
2019Heusden-Zolder, BEL11-
2018Baku, AZE29-
2017Rock Hill, SC, USA7-
2015Heusden-Zolder, BEL133
2014Rotterdam, NED77
2013Auckland, NZL311
2012Birmingham, GBR301
2011Copenhagen, DEN710

UCI BMX Supercross - Overview per season since 2017
YearEventStandingsThree best ranks per season
2020Men1st2 x 1st, 1 x 4th
2019Men17th1 x 2nd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 8th
2018Men20th1 x 7th, 1 x 12th, 1 x 14th
2017Men2nd2 x 1st, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th

UCI BMX Supercross - Ten best performances since 2017
RankYearEventLocation
12020MenBathurst, NSW, AUS
12020MenShepparton, VIC, AUS
12017MenSantiago del Estero, ARG
12017MenHeusden-Zolder, BEL
22019MenRock Hill, SC, USA
32017MenPapendal, NED
42020MenShepparton, VIC, AUS
42017MenSantiago del Estero, ARG
62019MenSantiago del Estero, ARG
72018MenSantiago del Estero, ARG
72017MenPapendal, NED


Legend
IP - In Progress, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified
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Playing and watching basketball, movies, watching ice hockey, American football, supercross, motocross, spending time with friends. (Twitter profile, 14 Jun 2021; connorfields.com, 01 Mar 20021; chasebicycles.com, 18 Aug 2015)
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Athlete, Coach, Public Speaker
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Business Management - University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States of America
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Partner Laura
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English
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He began cycling at age seven when his mother bought a bike for him. (connorfields.com, 01 Mar 2021; NOC YouTube video, 08 Oct 2014)
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His mother saw an advertisement for the Nellis BMX track in Las Vegas, NV, United States of America, and she encouraged him to try it out. "The next week we went out there to try it and instantly I was hooked. From that first day, all I ever wanted to do was be a pro BMXer. When I wasn't riding BMX, I was watching it, and when I wasn't watching it, I was thinking about it. At age 11, I stopped playing all other sports and focused only on BMX." (connorfields.com, 01 Mar 2021; NOC YouTube video, 08 Oct 2014)
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To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (teamusa.org, 25 May 2021)
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In 2021 he trained five or six days a week at the Elite Athlete Training Center in San Diego, CA, United States of America, where part of the track was remodelled into a replica of the BMX course at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nbcsandiego.com, 14 Apr 2021; teamusa.org, 25 May 2021)
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Winning a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (nbcsandiego.com, 14 Apr 2021; teamusa.org, 25 May 2021)
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US basketball player Kevin Durant, US American football player James Harrison, US swimmer Michael Phelps, US boxer Muhammad Ali. (chasebicycles.com, 18 Aug 2015)
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His parents. (connorfields.com, 01 Mar 2021)
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"[BMX racing is] almost relaxing in a sense. You look at what we do out here and it doesn't seem relaxing at all, but you have to be so focused and so concentrated on what you're doing that you tune the rest of the world out, and that's always been my favourite thing." (nbcsandiego.com, 14 Apr 2021)
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Following his gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he was granted a key to the Las Vegas Strip and a key to Henderson, NV, United States of America. (news3lv.com, 06 Sep 2016)

General Interest

General
THE WRITING ON THE WALL
When he was a teenager he wrote in marker pen on a wall of his parents' house, 'I will win and one day be Olympic champion'. The piece of wall was preserved by his parents when they moved house and now sits beside his gold medal from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "My parents actually moved out of the house I grew up in a few years ago, and when they moved they cut that piece of the wall out. They cut out the drywall where I wrote on it, so I have it sitting at my house. It's right next to my Olympic gold medal." (nbcsandiego.com, 14 Apr 2021)

RETIREMENT THOUGHTS
In 2021 he said that after the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo he will consider how much longer he wants to compete. "My plan was to go through the Tokyo Olympics, and then I'm going to take a little break and make a decision if I want to do one more year, two more years, [or try and keep going] indefinitely. For me the answer has always been, when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning and don't want to go ride, and I don't want to work out, and I don't want to do everything it takes to be a champion - that's when I'll hang it up. The downside of being an older athlete is my back is a bit sore, and I've got to warm up longer than I did when I was 20. But some of the positives are that I've raced so many times in my career that I don't feel extra nerves or added pressure." (dothaneagle.com, 27 Feb 2021; teamusa.org, 25 May 2021)

COACHING
When not travelling for competition, he works as a coach at a BMX track near his home in Las Vegas, NV, United States of America. "Typically, with all the travelling I do, I can't coach. So it's been so nice to have the time to do some riding schools and coaching kids at a very beginner level. It brings me back to the basics of why I enjoy the sport - seeing the joy of a kid just learning how to get their wheels off the ground, stuff like that. It's the total opposite of where I am in the sport, where you are always tracking your diet, squatting 400 pounds, having to win every race or deal with the pressure. It's nice to get back to raw love of being in the sport and being on a bike." (teamusa.org, 01 Oct 2020)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
DNS:
Did not start
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