Wimbledon Dons: Difference between revisions
m Reference tidy. |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 25: | Line 25: | ||
|honour6 = London Cup Winners |
|honour6 = London Cup Winners |
||
|year6 = 1938, 1939, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985 |
|year6 = 1938, 1939, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985 |
||
|honour7 = Gauntlet Spring Gold Cup Winners |
|||
|year7 = 1979 |
|||
}} |
}} |
||
| Line 68: | Line 70: | ||
Winners: 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970 |
Winners: 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970 |
||
===Spring Gold Cup=== |
===Gauntlet Spring Gold Cup=== |
||
Winners: 1979 |
Winners: 1979 |
||
Revision as of 20:46, 25 May 2017
| Wimbledon Dons | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Barry Briggs (Dons) and Gordon Kennett (Rebels) as captains | |||||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||||
| Track address | Wimbledon Stadium Plough Lane Wimbledon London | ||||||||||
| Country | England | ||||||||||
| Founded | 1928 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 2005 | ||||||||||
| Website | Official Website | ||||||||||
| Club facts | |||||||||||
| Colours | Yellow Star on Red | ||||||||||
| Track size | 355 yards (325 m) | ||||||||||
| Major team honours | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
The Wimbledon Dons were a professional motorcycle speedway team who operated from the Wimbledon Stadium, Plough Lane in London.[1][2]
The track opened in 1928 and the Dons operated there from 1929 until 1991. They were closed during the Second World War but upon their reopening in 1946 there were 42,000 people in attendance with an estimated 10,000 more locked outside. The club were very successful at the highest level of British speedway during the 1950s and 1960s, and attracted numerous famous riders.
Having been defunct for eleven years, the team were reopened again in 2002 by Steve Ribbons & David Croucher in the Conference League[3] but were forced to close in 2005, with Ian Perkin, Dingle Brown & Perry Attwood being joint owners of the club, when the stadium owners insisted on dramatically increasing the rent paid by the team to the stadium.[4]
Honours
National League
Champions: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961
National Trophy
Winners: 1938, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962
London Cup
Winners: 1938, 1939, 1961, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985
RAC Cup
Winners: 1954
Britannia Shield
Winner: 1959
KO Cup
Winners: 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970
Gauntlet Spring Gold Cup
Winners: 1979
Conference Pairs Champions
Winners: 2004, 2005
Notable Wimbledon Riders
|
|
References
- ^ Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). Homes of British Speedway. ISBN 0-7524-2210-3
- ^ Jacobs, N. Speedway in London, ISBN 0-7524-2221-9
- ^ Findon, Ben (1 May 2002). "Speedway: Rebirth of glory club". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
- ^ .
Oakes, P (2006). Speedway Star Almanac. Pinegen Ltd. ISBN 0-9552376-1-0.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help)
External links
  | This article related to sport in London is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about an English sports club is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This motorcycle speedway team-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |