Todd Wiltshire
Rybnik | |
2000-2003 | Bydgoszcz |
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Sweden | |
1991 | Skepparna |
Individual honours | |
1987, 1988 | ACT State Champion |
1989 | Intercontinental Champion |
Team honours | |
1990 | British League winner |
1990 | British League Knockout Cup winner |
1991 | Australian Best Pairs Champion |
1999 | Speedway World Team Cup |
2001, 2002 | Speedway World Cup |
Todd Wiltshire (born 26 September 1968 in
Career
Australia
Despite being born in
Seeking a new challenge Wiltshire turned to Speedway in late 1986 and won the
Wiltshire finished a surprise 3rd at the
His 1990/91 Australian season did include success in some of the bigger meetings. On 8 December he captained NSW to a win over the touring
Wiltshire headed back to the United Kingdom but failed to re-capture his previous seasons form and the World #3 failed to make the World Final in
After making a comeback to racing in Germany during 1997, Wiltshire won his first Australian Solo Championship in 1999 at the
In 2011, the
England
Starting in 1988, Todd Wiltshire rode for the Wimbledon Dons in the National League, helping the Dons to finish runners-up in the Knock-Out Cup in 1988 and second in the league in 1989.[9] Wiltshire also won the Scottish Open Championship in 1989.
Wiltshire moved up to the first division in 1990 with Reading Racers[10] where he was voted British speedway rider of the year after finishing third in the World Final at Bradford. While with Reading where he was teammate to Per Jonsson, Wiltshire would win both the British League and British League Knockout Cup in 1990.[11]
He had three spells with the Oxford Cheetahs from 1998 to 2001 where he was part of the Elite League title winning team in 2001.[12] After not racing for Oxford in the 2002 season, due to a rule capping the number of Grand Prix riders in Elite League teams, he returned to the team in 2003 and he also made a short-lived but successful comeback in 2006 for the Cheetahs before retiring for the last time.[13][14]
Germany
Following his crash at the 1992 Australian Championships which had forced his retirement, Wiltshire made a comeback in 1997, riding in Germany in a bid to gain a place in the Speedway Grand Prix after being denied a licence to race in the United Kingdom. Though he won the German Individual Championship in both 1997 and 1998, he failed to qualify for the SGP until 2000.
International
Wiltshire first made his mark on the international scene when he was a surprise qualifier for the
Wiltshire followed up his 3rd placing in the Individual Final with 2nd in the
Following his win in the Australian Championship in 1999, Wiltshire was given a birth in the Overseas Final. He finished 4th to easily qualify for the Intercontinental Final. He won the 1999 IC Final which gave him an automatic berth in the 2000 Speedway Grand Prix. He would ride in the SGP from 2000 until 2003 though he never managed to achieve higher than second place in a Grand Prix event.
Wiltshire was also part of the Australian team which won the 1999 Speedway World Team Cup, the first time since 1976 that Australia had won the title, as well as representing Australia in numerous test matches around the world. He repeated the success in both 2001 and 2002 (the Speedway World Team Cup was replaced after 2000 with the Speedway World Cup).
World Final Appearances
Individual World Championship
- 1990 - Bradford, Odsal Stadium - 3rd - 12pts
World Pairs Championship
- Ellermühle Stadium (with Leigh Adams) - 2nd - 41pts (25)
World Team Cup
- ) - Winner - 55pts (2)
- 2000 - Coventry, Brandon Stadium (with Jason Crump / Leigh Adams / Ryan Sullivan / Craig Boyce) - 4th - 29pts (2)
World Cup
- ) - Winner - 68pts (10)
- 2002 - Peterborough, East of England Showground (with Leigh Adams / Jason Lyons / Jason Crump / Ryan Sullivan) - Winner - 64pts (13)
- ) - 2nd - 57pts (15)
- ) - 4th - 35pts (8)
Speedway Grand Prix results
Year | Position | Points | Best finish | Notes |
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2000 | 8th | 63 | 3rd | Third in Swedish Grand Prix |
2001 | 8th | 56 | 6th | |
2002 | 15th | 63 | 2nd | Second in British Grand Prix |
2003 | 19th | 30 | 14th |
References
- ISBN 0-7524-2402-5
- ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ "Australian Speedway Championship Results". Australian Speedway Championship. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ "Speedway World Championship History - 1990". Speedway.org. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ "Individual Australian Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ The Australian Solo Championship
- ^ ":: Welcome to the NSW Speedway Riders Assoc ::". Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ "Welcome back Wimbledon". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ "2008 Rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
- ^ "Looking back at the glory years of speedway in Reading". Reading Chronicle. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ "Vote for your dream team". Speedway Star. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
- ^ "Aussie Ace to join Oxford". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ "Greensheet averages". Britiah Speedway. Retrieved 9 February 2023.