Nationality England Name Simon Cross Swedish league 1995/96 Smederna | Polish league 1992 Gniezno Career status Retired | |
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198219831982-199519911996 Oxford CheetahsWeymouth WildcatsCradley Heath HeathensMiddlesbrough BearsCoventry Bees 19881986 1994198719861987 Overseas ChampionBritish Masters grasstrack ChampionBritish 350 grasstrack ChampionEuropean Grasstrack ChampionWA State Champion (Aust) | ||
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Simon James Cross (born 31 May 1965 in Hereford, England) is a former motorcycle speedway rider who spent most of his career with the Cradley Heath Heathens.
Contents
- Peter ravn vs simon cross
- Bradford dukes v cradley heath 1990 gary havelock simon cross gert hanberg stuart parnaby
- Career
- 1989 World Team Cup Final
- Individual World Championship
- World Pairs Championship
- World Team Cup
- World Longtrack Championship
- European Grasstrack Championship
- Simon cross boxing for aif
- Simon cross on defence dowsett and bristol
- How facebook builds facebook simon cross openreaktor
- References
Bradford dukes v cradley heath 1990 gary havelock simon cross gert hanberg stuart parnaby
Career
Simon Cross and Kelvin Tatum finished runner-up in Speedway World Pairs Championship in 1988 and he finished runner-up in the British Championship in 1990. He won the National League Pairs Championship in 1983 with Martin Yeates.
In early 1987, Cross was part of a touring troupe to Australia which included (among others) World Champion Hans Nielsen, Tommy Knudsen, Shawn Moran and Rick Miller. While in Australia he won the 1986/87 Western Australian State Championship at the Claremont Speedway in Perth.
1987 also saw Cross qualify for his first and only World Final, run over two days at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. He finished in 10th place with 10 points scored (7 on day one, 3 on day two).
1989 World Team Cup Final
Simon also represented Great Britain when they won the 1989 Speedway World Team Cup Final at the Odsal Stadium in Bradford. Cross was involved in the famous crash on turn 1 of the first heat of the meeting which not only took all four riders out of the meeting, but ended the career of his Cradley team mate and three time World Champion Erik Gundersen. The Dane led out of the gates, only for his engine to seize and lock up in the first turn causing all four riders (Gundersen, Cross, Jimmy Nilsen (Sweden) and Lance King (USA)) to crash. Gundersen suffered head and spinal injuries after his head was hit by another bikes rear wheel as he lay on the track. None of the riders took any further part in the meeting.
Individual World Championship
World Pairs Championship
World Team Cup
World Longtrack Championship
Finalist
Grand-Prix Overall
European Grasstrack Championship
Finalist