Bobby Lea
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Full name | Robert Lea |
Date of birth | 17th October 1983 |
nation | United States |
discipline | Road / train |
End of career | 2016 |
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Last updated: September 26, 2017 |
Robert "Bobby" Lea (born October 17, 1983 in Easton ) is a former American track and road cyclist .
Athletic career
Robert Lea became the US champion in the 1000-meter time trial for the first time in 2003 . At the World Cup in Copenhagen he and Colby Pearce finished second in the two-man team . In this discipline he started with Michael Friedman at the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing . The duo took 16th and last place.
In November 2014 Lea took third place in the Omnium at the first run of the Track Cycling World Cup 2014/15 in Guadalajara , making him the first American to win a medal in this discipline.
In 2015 Lea tested positive in a doping control and was initially banned for 16 months. The suspension was later reduced to six months.
In 2016 Bobby Lea was nominated for the start in the Omnium at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he did not finish the competition. After being lapped twice in the final points race, he gave up the race. He then ended his cycling career in the elite. By 2016 Lea had won at least 23 US track cycling titles. However, starts are planned for extreme long-distance journeys, such as the Cape Epic .
successes
2003
2004
- American Champion - Single Pursuit, Team Pursuit (with James Carney , Guillaume Nelessen and Colby Pearce )
2005
- American champion - points race, team pursuit (with Michael Friedman , Ryan Miller and Guillaume Nelessen )
2007
- American Champion - Madison (with Colby Pearce )
2010
2011
- 2012
- Pan American Champion - Scratch
- Pan American Championship - Omnium
- American champion - single pursuit, points race, two-man team race (with Jackie Simes )
- 2013
- American champion - single pursuit, omnium, two-man team driving (with Jackie Simes )
- 2014
- American Champion - Scratch, Omnium, Single Pursuit, Two Team Driving (with Jackie Simes )
- Pan American Champion - One's Pursuit
- Pan American Championship - points race, two-man team race (with Jacob Duehring )
- 2015
- World Championship - Scratch
- Panamerican champions - two-man team driving (with Jacob Duehring )
- American champion - single pursuit, omnium, two-man team driving (with Jacob Duehring )
- 2016
- American champion - single pursuit, points race, two-man team race (with Zak Kovalcik )
Teams
- 2006: Toyota-United
- 2007: Toyota-United
- 2008: Rite Aid-Shebell & Shebell
- 2009: OUCH-Maxxis
- 2010: Bahati Foundation
- 2012: Team Cykelcity.se
- 2013: Team SmartStop-Mountain Khakis
Web links
- Bobby Lea in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Bobby Lea in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Bobby Lea in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Bobby Lea makes US track cycling history in Mexico. Velo News, November 10, 2014, accessed on September 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Doping: US Olympic hope Lea banned for 16 months ruhrnachrichten.de December 18, 2015 ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Doping ban for US cyclist Lea reduced - Olympic start possible donaukurier.de February 25, 2016 ( Memento from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ OLYMPICS: Topton's Lea exits early in omnium race. In: wfmz.com. August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
- ↑ It Sounded Like A Good Idea: The Beginning. In: Dirt Rag. May 30, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Lea, Bobby |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lea, Robert (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American track and road cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Easton |