HTC-Highroad
Sign in to saveHTC–Highroad () was a former professional cycling team competing in international road bicycle races. Their last title sponsor was HTC Corporation, a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones but dissolved at the end of the 2011 season from a failure to find a new sponsor. High Road Sports was the management company of team manager Bob Stapleton. Past title sponsors include Columbia Sportswear and Deutsche Telekom.
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- Cycling team.name
- HTC–Highroad
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- Cycling team.code
- THR
- Cycling team.registered
- USA
- Cycling team.generalmanager
- Bob Stapleton
- Cycling team.discipline
- Road
- Cycling team.status
- UCI ProTeam
- Cycling team.bicycles
- Specialized
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- Cycling team.oldname
- Stuttgart-Merckx-GonsorStuttgart-Mercedes-Merckx-PumaTeam TelekomT-Mobile TeamTeam High RoadTeam ColumbiaTeam Columbia–High RoadTeam Columbia–HTCTeam HTC–ColumbiaHTC–Highroad
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- Official name
- HTC-Highroad
- Official website
- www.highroadsports.com
- Image
- Bert Grabsch-IMG 1525.jpg
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- Columbia cycling team
- inception
- 2008-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2011-00-00
- UCI code of cycling team
- THR
- social media followers
- 20419
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Team beginnings: 1988–1991
- Team Telekom: 1991–2004
- T-Mobile: 2004 – November 2007
- Doping scandals: 2006–2007
- Team High Road: November 2007 – June 2008
- Team Columbia and Team Columbia–High Road: July 2008 – June 2009
- Team Columbia–HTC: June 2009 – January 2010 and Team HTC–Columbia: January 2010 – 2011
- Major wins
- National, continental, world and Olympic champions
- Riders
- References
- External links
HTC–Highroad () was a former professional cycling team competing in international road bicycle races. Their last title sponsor was HTC Corporation, a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones but dissolved at the end of the 2011 season from a failure to find a new sponsor. High Road Sports was the management company of team manager Bob Stapleton. Past title sponsors include Columbia Sportswear and Deutsche Telekom.
The team was founded in 1991 as Team Telekom, sponsored by Deutsche Telekom. In 2004 their name changed to the T-Mobile Team. The team was under the management of Bob Stapleton and Rolf Aldag. Former leaders included Olaf Ludwig, Walter Godefroot and Eddy Vandenhecke (managers), Luuc Eisenga (spokesperson) and Brian Holm, Valerio Piva (sports directors).