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Athlete Bio#
Height
6'0"
Age
40
Hometown
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Education
California State University, Fullerton ’07
classification: MC5
Quick Facts
- 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
- 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.
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 Championships Experience
- Most recent: 2023 Track – silver (time trial), 15th (scratch)
- Years of Participation: Track – 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023; Road - 2014
- Medals: 9 (2 golds, 3 silvers, 4 bronzes)
- Gold – 2017 (time trial, team sprint)
- Silver – 2023 (time trial); 2022 (time trial); 2020 (time trial)
- Bronze – 2020 (team sprint), 2019 (time trial, team sprint), 2017 (pursuit)
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