Bob Stapleton

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Robert R. "Bob" Stapleton (born April 1, 1958 in Riverside , California ) is an American entrepreneur , former team manager of cycling teams and current board member of the World Cycling Federation UCI .

Voicestream

Bob Stapleton was the co-founder and board member of the wireless communications company Voicestream , which was acquired by Deutsche Telekom in 2001 . Forbes business magazine estimated his fortune at one billion dollars.

Engagement in cycling

After the sale of Voicestream, Bob Stapleton founded the US company "High Road Sports Inc.", which initially ran a women's cycling team from 2003 under the name of sponsor T-Mobile , which was called HTC Highroad Women until 2011 .

With the start of the 2007 season he took over its operating company New Road Sport GmbH , based in Bonn, a subsidiary of High Road Sports Inc. , the management of the men's team T-Mobile . The main sponsor T-Mobile had previously announced that they wanted to part with Olaf Ludwig Cycling GmbH , the previous operator of Team T-Mobile. Stapleton was supposed to restructure the team after the doping scandals ( doping scandal Fuentes , doping scandal Team Telekom ) and lead it back to success. On November 27, 2007, the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom announced that the mobile phone subsidiary T-Mobile would end its cycling activities with immediate effect. The trigger for this was the doping case of the T-Mobile driver Patrik Sinkewitz in the run-up to the Tour de France 2007 . The decision affected both the men's and women's teams. According to the press release, the contract between T-Mobile and the operating company “Neuer Straßen Sport GmbH” under the direction of Bob Stapleton was terminated by “mutual agreement”. The contract was originally supposed to run until the end of 2010. High Road Sports then took over the operation of the men's team, initially under its own name, and received a provisional ProTeam license on December 4, 2007 . The new name of the men's team was HTC-Highroad .

On August 4, 2011, Bob Stapleton announced that the HTC Highroad team would be dissolved at the end of the 2011 season. The reason he stated was that no new potential sponsor had been found who was willing to support the team at the previous level. The previous main sponsor HTC ended its engagement at the end of the year.

Stapleton was chairman of the board of the World Triathlon Corporation , was a member of the board of the domestic association USA Cycling for eight years and has been its president since 2014. He sits on the board of the World Cycling Federation and is president of its committee to combat technical fraud (" motor doping ").

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bob Stapleton: Billionaire in Jeans and Sneakers. In: rad-net.de. November 30, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bob Stapleton's Highroad Story. In: radsport-news.com. January 1, 2011, accessed July 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kalwa: The most difficult job of his life. In: FAZ.net . Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ "Distance us and T-Mobile". In: FAZ.net . Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ cf. rad-net.de: New sponsor: "Team Columbia" was called up on June 16, 2008 from High Road
  6. ↑ New sponsor: High Road becomes Team Columbia. In: rad-net.de. June 16, 2008. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Was Cavendish tipping the scales? -. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  8. ^ John Wilcockson: A conversation with Bob Stapleton. In: Peloton Magazine. January 3, 2015, accessed July 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ USA Cycling Board of Directors - USA Cycling. In: usacycling.org. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  10. ^ Mr Bob Stapleton (USA). In: uci.ch. December 13, 2017, accessed July 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stapleton, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stapleton, Robert R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American corporate and sports manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Riverside , California , United States