Randy Stumpfhauser

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ridername = Randy Stumpfhauser


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fullname = Randall Richard Stumpfhauser
nickname = "Sumpdog", "Stumpy"
dateofbirth = birth date and age |1977|1|27
height = 1.72 m (5'7" Imperial)
weight = ~74.85 kg (~165lbs. Imperial)
country = USA
currentteam = GT Bicycles/Hyundai
discipline = Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
role = Racer
ridertype = Off Road
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amateuryears = 1990
1991-1993
1993-1995
amateurteams = Hi-Tech Racing
Action Racing
Powerlite Industries
proyears = 1996
1996
1997-2003
2004-Present
proteams = Powerlite Industries
ELF
Huffy Bicycles
GT Bicycles/Hyundai
majorwins =
updated = July 28, 2008

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" [ [http://www.bmxstars.com/profiles/randystumpfhauser.html BMXStars.com profile] ] or "Stumpy" [ [http://www.foxsecure.com/Store/Team/Stumpfhauser.asp Fox Secure interview] ] , all are plays on his last name.

Racing career

Note: Professional firsts are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

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*In the NBL "B" Pro/Super Class/"A" Pro/Junior Men/Super X (SX) 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.

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.

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Amateur

*Hi Tech Racing: 1990
*Action Racing: 1991-1993
*Powerlite Industries: 1993-February 1996 Stumpfhauser turned pro with this sponsor

Professional

*Powerlite Industries: 1993-February 1996
*ELF (Extra Light Frames): ["BMX Plus!" December 1996 Vol.19 No.12 pg.68] February 1996-Late December 1996. Stumpfhauser's last race for ELF was the 1996 NBL Christmas Classice in December 1996. [Snap BMX Magazine March/April 1997 Vol.4 Iss.2 No.15 pg.96]
*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. [ [http://www.atbmx.com/news_archives.htm 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]
*GT (Gary Turner) Bicycles/Hyundai: January 7, 2004-Present

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.

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Amateur/Junior Men/Super X

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)
*NoneFédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*
*NoneInternational Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*
*NoneUnion Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

* See note in professional section.

Professional/Elite Men

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"
*2008 Elite Men Grand National Champion
*"2008 Elite Men 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)*
*NoneFédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*
*None (FIAC did not have a strictly professional division during its existence).Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*
*"1996 Silver Medal Elite Men World Champion"
*"2002,'03,'04,'05 Gold Medal 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

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. ["BMX Plus!" February 1995 Vol.18 No.2 pg.67]

*He is a 1996 ABA "BMXer" magazine Golden Crank "Rookie of the Year" winner. [ [http://www.gork-graphics.com/PopularityAwards.htm Gorkgraphics.com site.] ]
*He is a 2006 ABA "AA" pro PRO Holeshot Award winner. [ [http://www.bmxtra.com/06news/06news0040.htm BMXtra.com online article.] ]

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)

ignificant injuries

*Tore two ligaments in his right knee at the NBL Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California on March 23, 1997. He underwent reconstructive surgery. ["Snap BMX Magazine" July/August 1997 Vol.4 No.4 Iss.17 pg.13] He was laid up for nine months total including time to recover from the surgery. His first race back was the NBL Christmass Classic in Columbus, Ohio on December 28, 1997. ["Snap BMX Magazine" May 1998 Vol.5 Iss.3 No.22 pg.45]

*Tore ligament in his left knee in 1998 [ [http://www.bmxstars.com/profiles/randystumpfhauser.html BMXStars.com profile.] ]
*He suffered a broken collarbone, scapula and a rib in a crash at the UCI SX race in Fréjus, 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. [ [http://www.go211.com/u/stumpy/blogs Stumpfhauser's blog entry at Go211.com site.] ]

Racing traits and habits

Miscellaneous and Trivia

*Stumpfhauser holds a B.S. in Engineering

Post BMX career

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 Lévêque, Michelle Cairns, Neal Wood, and Jamie Lilly.
*"Stumpy" "Moto Mag" March/April 2004 Vol.3 No.2 pg.33

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 (200) in middle insert leading; Brian Foster (3) in second; Charles Townsend (10) in fourth; unidentified (16) in third. In top right insert dirt jumper Matt Beringer. In bottom right insert Kiyomi Waller (403). In bottom left insert various helmets."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):

End Notes

External links

* [http://www.ababmx.com/ The American Bicycle Association (ABA) Website.]
* [http://www.nbl.org/ The National Bicycle League (NBL) Website.]
* [http://www.bmxstars.com/profiles/randystumpfhauser.html BMXStars.com Profile.]
* [http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:M7DlYWQInOMJ:expn.go.com/athletes/bios/STUMPFHAUSER_RANDY.html+Randy+Stumpfhauser&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 Google cache of EXPN.com profile]
* [http://www.foxsecure.com/Store/Team/Stumpfhauser.asp Fox Secure site interview.]
* [http://www.sponsorhouse.com/Members/stumpy/Apps/Photos.aspx?resourceId=74d526e0-1d7f-4a31-9fd4-10ecb6a1e205 Sponsor house profile page.]
* [http://www.daleholmes.com/interviews/stumpy.shtml Daleholms.com 2002 interview]
* [http://www.bmxpros.com/randys.htm BMXpros.com bio.]