Bobby Lea

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Bobby Lea Road cycling
To person
Full name Robert Lea
Date of birth 17th October 1983
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Road / train
End of career 2016
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2015 bronze - Scratch
Pan American Championships
2015 PanAmericanJersey.png - two-man team driving (with Jacob Duehring )
2014 PanAmericanJersey.png - individual pursuit
2012 PanAmericanJersey.png - Scratch
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

  • United StatesUnited States American Champion - 1000m Time Trial

2004

2005

2007

  • United StatesUnited StatesAmerican Champion - Madison (with Colby Pearce )

2010

  • United StatesUnited States American champion - Omnium

2011

  • United StatesUnited States American Master - One Pursuit, Omnium
2012
  • PanAmericanJersey.png Pan American Champion - Scratch
  • bronze Pan American Championship - Omnium
  • United StatesUnited StatesAmerican champion - single pursuit, points race, two-man team race (with Jackie Simes )
2013
  • United StatesUnited StatesAmerican champion - single pursuit, omnium, two-man team driving (with Jackie Simes )
2014
  • United StatesUnited StatesAmerican Champion - Scratch, Omnium, Single Pursuit, Two Team Driving (with Jackie Simes )
  • PanAmericanJersey.png Pan American Champion - One's Pursuit
  • bronzePan American Championship - points race, two-man team race (with Jacob Duehring )
2015
2016
  • United StatesUnited StatesAmerican champion - single pursuit, points race, two-man team race (with Zak Kovalcik )

Teams

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

  1. ^ Bobby Lea makes US track cycling history in Mexico. Velo News, November 10, 2014, accessed on September 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Doping: US Olympic hope Lea banned for 16 months ruhrnachrichten.de December 18, 2015 ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Doping ban for US cyclist Lea reduced - Olympic start possible donaukurier.de February 25, 2016 ( Memento from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ OLYMPICS: Topton's Lea exits early in omnium race. In: wfmz.com. August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
  5. ↑ It Sounded Like A Good Idea: The Beginning. In: Dirt Rag. May 30, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 .
personal data
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