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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.

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HTC–Highroad
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Cycling team.code
THR
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USA
Cycling team.generalmanager
Bob Stapleton
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Road
Cycling team.status
UCI ProTeam
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Specialized
Cycling team.season
198919901991–20032004–20072007–20082008200920102011
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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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Commons category
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 sections
Contents
  • 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).

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