Born in
Koog aan de Zaan, Stam started cycling at the team of his father and four-time world champion track cyclist
Cees Stam. He participated in both
road cycling as well as track cycling. On the road his main skills became visible in the mountain stages, but after being part of the
Rabobank talent team for a few years he did not break through to the professional team. As a result, he decided to mainly focus his career on track cycling. It would take him four more years to win another national title. This time he won the
madison title alongside his partner
Robert Slippens. The year 2000 turned out to be his final breakthrough year. Besides his second national title he also won a silver medal behind the derny and two bronze medals at the
points race and
time trial. Later that year Stam and Slippens represented the Netherlands at the
2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where they took the 8th spot. In 2001 Stam and Slippens had their first top three ranking during a
Six-day cycling event, finishing third in
Amsterdam. A year later they promoted their ranking into a second place. That same year they became the European Champions at the Madison beating
Bruno Risi and
Kurt Betschart for the gold. He also won another national silver medal at the points race. Their first Six-day racing win Stam and Slippens also achieved in Amsterdam, where they again beat Risi and Betschart in 2003. In addition they also won the Six-day cycling event of
Bremen and finished second in Moscow and
Ghent. They qualified themselves for the World Championships in 2004 and won the bronze medal. They were ready for their second Olympic spell, but at the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens they did not get further than the 14th spot because they were a lap behind. Their most successive year to date was 2006 when they won the six-day events of Rotterdam, Bremen, Berlin and
Copenhagen together. While at the World Championships 2007 in
Palma de Mallorca he and Schep won another silver medal. In 2008 Stam started in the Six-day event of Rotterdam again together with Slippens, but he had to withdraw after one day. Because
Leif Lampater's teammate Andreas Beikirch also got injured Stam and Lampater were riding together starting at day 2 of the event, chasing the leading three teams by 2 laps. Eventually they won the event with a lap in advantage of the rest of the pack. In 2010 Stam joined the cycling team, In 2021, became
SD Worx, and the team was promoted to
UCI Women's Team status. ==Career highlights==