Marvyn Cox

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Marvyn Cox
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Born(1964-07-11)11 July 1964
Whitstable, Kent
NationalityBritish (English)
Career history
Great Britain
1981-1983 Rye House Rockets
1982, 1983 Hackney Hawks
1984–1989, 1996 Oxford Cheetahs
1990 Bradford Dukes
1991–1992, 1997–1998 Poole Pirates
1995 Reading Racers
Sweden
1995–1996 Valsarna
Individual honours
1986, 1994 Speedway World Championship finalist
1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995 Individual Long Track World Championship finalist
1993, 1995 German champion
1984 European Junior Champion
1984 British Under 21 Champion
Team honours
1986 (bronze) 1987 (silver) World Team Cup
1985, 1986, 1989 British League Champion
1985, 1986 British League KO Cup winner
1996 Premier League Four-Team Championship

Marvyn Cox (born 11 July 1964 in Whitstable, Kent) is a former motorcycle speedway rider. [1] Cox was twice a winner of the German Individual Championship in 1993 and 1995, when he raced under a German licence. [2] At retirement, he had earned 25 international caps for the England national speedway team. [3]

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Domestic career

Cox started his British leagues career riding for Rye House Rockets during the 1981 National League season. [4] He made great progress during the 1982 season, [5] improving his average to 8.87 but his season was overshadowed by tragedy when he was involved in an accident with American Denny Pyeatt whilst riding for Hackney in a league match against Reading, in which Pyeatt lost his life. [6]

He topped the Rye House averages in 1983, which attracted the interest of Oxford Cheetahs. The Cheetahs signed Cox from Rye House for £15,000. [7] The Oxford team had returned to the British League and the other signings to start as the top five riders for the season were Hans Nielsen for a record £30,000, Simon Wigg for £25,000, Melvyn Taylor for £12,000 and Jens Rasmussen, with Ian Clark and Nigel Sparshott at 6 & 7. [8] During the 1984 season, he won both the European Junior Championship and the British Under 21 Championship.

After a mid-table finish with Oxford in 1984, he was part of the Oxford team that won the league and cup double during the 1985 British League season. [8] They repeated the league and cup double the following season during the 1986 British League season and later won a third title during the 1989 British League season. He was a very popular rider at the Cowley circuit. [8]

His form, from an individual perspective, continued to impress, and he reached the final of the 1986 Speedway World Championship and won two medals with England at the Speedway World Team Cup. He also became a leading rider on the Longtrack, reaching six Individual Long Track World Championship finals from 1989 to 1995.

In 1996, he returned to Oxford Cheetahs after spells with Bradford, Poole Pirates and Reading Racers, and some time in Germany. His return saw him help Oxford win the Premier League Four-Team Championship, which was held on 4 August 1996, at the East of England Arena. [9]

He competed in the first two seasons of the Speedway Grand Prix series in 1995 and 1996 [10] and also rode in the Swedish Elitserien for Valsarna from 1995 to 1996. He finished his career at Poole after two seasons in 1997 and 1998.

World Final appearances

Individual World Championship

World Team Cup

Speedway Grand Prix results

World Longtrack Championship Finals

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References

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  2. ↑ "Vote for your dream team". Speedway Star. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "1981 season results" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Opening fixture at new circuit" . Motherwell Times. 29 April 1982. Retrieved 19 September 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Denny Pyeatt". Speedway Bikes. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Goodbye Marvyn" . Hoddesdon and Broxbourne Mercury. 18 November 1983. Retrieved 28 September 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. 1 2 3 Bamford/Shailes, Robert/Glynn (2007). The Story of Oxford Speedway. Tempus Publishing Ltd. pp. 128–135. ISBN   978-0-7524-4161-0.
  9. ↑ "Cheetahs race to four team title" . Hull Daily Mail. 5 August 1996. Retrieved 5 July 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
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