David Bellego

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David Bellego
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Born (1993-05-15) 15 May 1993 (age 30)
Marmande, France
NationalityFrench
Website Official website
Career history
Great Britain
2011 Glasgow
2012–2014 Berwick
2015, 2023 Sheffield
2016 Redcar
2017–2019 Swindon
2019 Ipswich
Poland
2017 Krosno
2020, 2023 Bydgoszcz
2022 Leszno
2024 Tarnów
Sweden
2019-2021 Masarna
2022 Indianerna
2023 Västervik
2024 Dackarna
Denmark
2016–2017, 2021, 2024 Grindsted
Individual honours
2010, 2020, 2021, 2022 French Champion
Team honours
2018, 2019 Team Long Track World Champion
2012 Four-Team Championship winner
2017, 2023 SGB Premiership

David Bellego (born 15 May 1993 in Marmande) is a French motorcycle speedway rider, who competes in Grasstrack, Longtrack and Speedway. [1] He is four times champion of France. [2] [3]

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Speedway career

International

In 2012, he was part of the French team that won the bronze medal at the 2012 Team Long Track World Championship. [4] Six years later he became a world champion after scoring 12 points as part of the winning team for 2018 Team Long Track World Championship. [5] The following year he helped France successfully defend the 2019 Team Long Track World Championship. [6] He also participated in the Individual Speedway European Championship four times in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

In 2022, he won his fourth French Individual Speedway Championship.

Club

In 2012, he was part of the Berwick Bandits side that won the Premier League Four-Team Championship. [7] In 2016, he rode for Redcar Bears [8] and in 2017, Bellego competed full-time in the top division of British Speedway for the first time with Swindon Robins when they won the League Championship and was retained for the 2018 season. [9]

In 2020, he won the Swedish league with Masarna during the 2020 Swedish speedway season. In 2023, he signed for Sheffield Tigers for the SGB Premiership 2023, having previously ridden for them in 2015. He helped them win the league title. [10] [11]

Major results

World Team Championships

World Individual Longtrack Championship

World Longtrack Team Championship

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References

  1. ↑ "David Bellego". Grasstrack GB. 15 May 1993. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Speedway from around the globe". Speedway Star page 46. 22 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "World Team Long Track Championship". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "World Team Long Track Championship". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Final scores". Speedway Updates. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "British Speedway Archive". Speedway GB. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Redcar Bears sign 22-year old French International David Bellego". Gazette Live. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  9. ↑ Barnes, Dan (17 November 2016). "Robins land their fancied Frenchman". Swindon Advertiser. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  10. ↑ "Tigers champions in Grand Final drama". British Speedway. 6 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "Bellego returns with Tigers". British Speedway. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
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