Randy Stumpfhauser
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Randall Richard Stumpfhauser |
| Nickname | "Sumpdog", "Stumpy" |
| Date of birth | January 27, 1977 |
| Country |  United States |
| Height | 1.72 m (5'7" Imperial) |
| Weight | ~74.85 kg (~165lbs. Imperial) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | GT Bicycles/Hyundai |
| Discipline | Bicycle Motocross (BMX) |
| Role | Racer |
| Rider type | Off Road |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1990 1991-1993 1993-1995 |
Hi-Tech Racing Action Racing Powerlite Industries |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1996 1996 1997-2003 2004-Present |
Powerlite Industries ELF Huffy Bicycles GT Bicycles/Hyundai |
| Infobox last updated on: | |
| July 11, 2007 | |
Randall Richard Stumpfhauser (b. January 27, 1977 in Fresno, California U.S.) is an American professional "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years are from 1998 to the present. He is sometimes called "Stumpdog"[1]or "Stumpy"[2], all are plays on his last name.
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[edit] Racing career
Note: Professional firsts are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.
Started Racing: August 1986 at age nine, when his father took him to a BMX track in Sanger, California.[3]
Sanctioning Body:
First race result:
First win (local):
First sponsor: 1990 Hi-Tech Racing. This was his first sponsor after three years of racing.[4]
First national win:
Turned Professional: November 1995 at 18 years of age after the American Bicycle Association (ABA) Grandnationals.
First Professional race result: First in Superclass at the National Bicycle League's (NBL) Christmas Classic Nationals in Columbus, Ohio in late December 1995 (Day 1). He also came in fourth in Pro/Super Award (Day 1).[5]
First Professional win: See above.
First Junior Pro* race result: See above.
First Junior Pro win: See above.
First Senior Pro** race result: Second in "AA" pro at the ABA Springnationals in Santa Clara, California on May 24, 1996 (Day 1).[6][7]
First Senior Pro win: In "AA" at the ABA Great Northwest Nationals in Grants Pass, Oregon in July 1996.[7]
Retired: Still active.
Height & weight at height of her career (1998-Present): Ht: 5'7" Wt:~165lbs.
*In the NBL "B" Pro/Super Class/"A" Pro depending on the era; in the ABA it is "A" Pro.
**In the NBL it is "A" Pro/Elite Men; in the ABA it is "AA" Pro.
[edit] Career factory and major bike shop sponsors
Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are given.
[edit] Amateur
- Hi Tech Racing: 1990
- Action Racing: 1991-1993
- Powerlite Industries: 1993-February 1996 Stumpfhauser turned pro with this sponsor
[edit] Professional
- Powerlite Industries: 1993-February 1996
- ELF (Extra Light Frames):[8] February 1996-Late December 1996. Stumpfhauser's last race for ELF was the 1996 NBL Christmas Classice in December 1996.[9]
- Huffy Bicycles: January 1997-December 2003. Huffy decided to drop its entire BMX team and pull out of its BMX effort after the 2003 season.[10][11]
- GT (Gary Turner) Bicycles/Hyundai: January 7, 2004-Present
[edit] Career bicycle motocross titles
Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.
[edit] Amateur
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
- None (defunct)
National Bicycle League (NBL)
- 1991 14 Cruiser Grandnational Champion
- 1991 14 Cruiser National No.1
- 1993 16 Expert and 16 Cruiser National No.1
- 1994 17 Expert Grandnational Champion
- 1994 17 Expert and 17 Cruiser National No.1
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
- 1994 17 Expert Grandnational Champion
- 1995 World Cup 17-20 Cruiser Champion.
- 1995 18 Expert and 17-20 Cruiser Grandnational Champion
- 1995 18 Cruiser National No.1.
United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)
- None
Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*
- None
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*
- None
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*
* See note in professional section.
[edit] Professional
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
- None (defunct)
National Bicycle League (NBL)
- 1998, 2001,'02, Pro Cruiser National No.1
- 2003 "AA" Pro Grandnational Champion
- 2003 National No.1 Pro
- 2003 Pro Cruiser National No.1
- 2004,'05 Elite (Pro) Cruiser National No.1
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
- 2001,'02,'03,'04 Pro Cruiser National No.1
United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)
- None (defunct)
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*
- None
Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*
- None (FIAC did not have a strictly professional division during its existence).
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*
- 2002,'03,'04,'05 Elite Men Cruiser World Champion
*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC, the amateur cycling arm of the UCI, had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1996 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.
Independent Pro Series Championships and invitationals
[edit] Notable accolades
- Randy Stumpfhauser has been very prolific in terms of winning the cruiser class of various sanctioning bodies. As of November 2006 he has 15 National and World Championships, 14 of them as a professional; he has won the ABA Pro Cruiser title four consecutive times between 2001 and 2004. He has won the NBL Pro Cruiser division six times, five of them consecutively between 2001 and 2005. He has won the UCI Elite Men Cruiser World Championship four consecutive times between 2002 and 2005. Isolating one block of time he was the Cruiser champion in three different sanctioning bodies-ABA, NBL, UCI-simultaneously for three consecutive years: 2002, 2003, and 2004. In the midst of this accomplishment he won the ABA "AA" National No.1 Pro for the 20" division in 2003. Not to be forgotten are his amateur NBL National age group cruiser titles; his 1995 ABA Amateur National Cruiser No.1 and 1995 ABA World Cup Cruiser championship titles and his 1998 NBL Pro Cruiser National No.1.
- He was called one of the top amateurs in the country by BMX Plus! in 1995 along with Greg Romero, Andy Contes, Kevin Royal and George Andrews.[12]
- He is a 1996 ABA BMXer magazine Golden Crank "Rookie of the Year" winner.[13]
- He is a 2006 ABA "AA" pro PRO Holeshot Award winner.[14]
[edit] BMX Product Lines
- 1999 Huffy Supercharger Randy Stumpfhauser Signature Series
- Product Evaluations:
- Snap BMX Magazine December 2000 Vol.7 Iss.12 No.50 pg.112 (2001 model year)
[edit] Significant injuries
- Tore two ligaments in his right knee at the NBL Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California on March 23, 1997. He was out for six months after undergoing reconstructive surgery.[15]
- Tore ligament in his left knee in 1998[16]
- He suffered a broken collarbone, scapula and a rib in a crash at the UCI SX race in Frejus, France in October 2007. He came unclipped from one of his pedals in the first straight in his third moto and hit a roller jump, lost control and flipped over the handlebars. He slammed against a following jump going into the first turn. He missed the 2007 ABA Grandnationals and was hoping to race the 2007 NBL Christmas Classic.[17]
[edit] Peccadilloes
[edit] Post BMX career
[edit] BMX magazine covers
Note: (defunct) denotes that the magazine was out of business before the career of the racer started.
Bicycle Motocross News:
- None (defunct)
Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:
- None
Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:
- None
BMX Plus!:
- February 1997 Vol.20 No.2 in middle insert leading race. In bottom right insert Kiyomi Waller; in top right insert dirt jumper Matt Beringer.
Total BMX
- None (defunct)
Bicycles and Dirt:
- None (defunct)
Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:
Twenty BMX:
Moto Mag:
- May/June 2003 Vol.2 No.3 (2) ahead of Christian Becerine (4) and Nate Berkheimer (8) and several other unidentified racers.
- March/April 2004 Vol.3 No.2
BMX World:
NBA World & NBmxA World (The official NBA/NBmxA membership publication):
- None (defunct)
Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL membership publication under two names):
ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA membership publication under three names):
USBA Racer (The official USBA membership publication):
[edit] BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles
- "The Top Amateurs In the Country" BMX Plus! February 1995 Vol.18 No.2 pg.67
- "The Wheels of Change: Randy Stumpfhauser" Snap BMX Magazine May/June 1997 Vol.4 No.3 Iss.16 pg.46 One of four separate interviews with pros with recent sponsorship changes including Scott Yoquelet, Bogi Givens, & Lawan Cunningham.
- "Q&A: If you could race one race over again, which would it be?" Snap BMX Magazine December 1999 Vol.6 Iss.10 No.38 pg.42 Single question interview asked of Stumpfhauser and four other profession racers including Christophe Leveque, Michelle Cairns, Neal Wood, and Jamie Lilly.
- "Stumpy" Moto Mag March/April 2004 Vol.3 No.2 pg.33
[edit] Miscellaneous and Trivia
- Stumpfhauser holds a B.S. in Engineering
[edit] End Notes
- ^ BMXStars.com profile
- ^ Fox Secure interview
- ^ BMXStars.com profile
- ^ BMX Plus! February 1995 Vol.18 No.2 pg.67
- ^ Snap BMX Magazine March/April 1996 Vol.3 Iss.2 No.9 pg.76&80 (results)
- ^ Snap BMX Magazine September/October 1996 Vol.3 Iss.5 No.12 pg.46 (results)
- ^ a b Gorkgraphics.com page on Stumpfhauser's ABA records
- ^ BMX Plus! December 1996 Vol.19 No.12 pg.68
- ^ Snap BMX Magazine March/April 1997 Vol.4 Iss.2 No.15 pg.96
- ^ ATBMX.com archived Janurary 2004 article "Randy Stumpfhauser Moves to GT/Hyundai". Word search for the title.
- ^ Transworld BMX January 2004 Vol.11 Iss.1 No.87 pg.20
- ^ BMX Plus! February 1995 Vol.18 No.2 pg.67
- ^ Gorkgraphics.com site.
- ^ BMXtra.com online article.
- ^ Snap BMX Magazine July/August 1997 Vol.4 No.4 Iss.17 pg.13
- ^ BMXStars.com profile.
- ^ Stumpfhauser's blog entry at Go211.com site.
