Richie Worrall

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Richie Worrall
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Born (1991-09-23) 23 September 1991 (age 32)
St. Helens, Merseyside, England
NationalityBritish (English)
Career history
Great Britain:
2011Scunthorpe & Sheffield Saints
2011-14 Newcastle Diamonds
2012 Stoke Potters
2012 Lakeside Hammers
2013, 2022 King's Lynn Stars
2014, 2016, 2021 Belle Vue Aces
2014 Ipswich Witches
2015 Somerset Rebels
2016–2018 Glasgow Tigers
2017, 2020–2021 Edinburgh Monarchs
2017–2019 Poole Pirates
2019, 2022, 2023 Leicester Lions
2023 Peterborough Panthers
2023 Plymouth Gladiators
Team honours
2011 Premier Shield
2011 National League

Richard Leonard Worrall (born 23 September 1991) is an English motorcycle speedway rider who in 2012 reached the final of the World Under-21 Championship. [1]

Biography

Worrall was born in St. Helens, Merseyside, the slightly elder of twins, the other being Steve Worrall, also now a speedway rider. [2] Initially a motocross rider, he made his league debut in speedway in 2010 with Scunthorpe Saints in the National League. [2] For 2011, he was signed by Premier League Newcastle Diamonds, with whom he won the Premier Shield, also continuing to ride in the National League with Sheffield/Scunthorpe, for whom he averaged 7.75 over a season in which the team won the league. [2] He stayed with Newcastle in 2012, when he was joined by his brother, and also rode in the National League for Stoke Potters and in the Elite League with Lakeside Hammers. [3] [4] [5]

In June 2012 he qualified for the World Under-21 Final, the first British rider to do so for three years. [5] At the end of the month, however, a double break to his leg sustained in a crash at Workington ended his season. [6]

Worrall spent the 2016 season with both the Glasgow Tigers and Belle Vue Aces. With Glasgow, Richie started the season fourth in the Glasgow team averages on a 6.84 Avg. Richie was a strong, consistent scorer for Glasgow both home and away, and finished the season in the number one race jacket. He led Glasgow to victory in the Premier League KO CUP final against Newcastle in October 2016. With the Aces in 2016 Richie helped his team get to the Elite League final, and most notably won a race against former World Champion Tai Woffinden, very impressive for the Aces reserve.

For the 2017 Season, Richie has only signed for the Glasgow Tigers, after promotion at Belle Vue decided that he wasn't going to be in their 2017 team-building plans.

Richie rode for the Poole Pirates in the SGB Premiership 2019 and the Leicester Lions in the SGB Championship 2019. After a cancelled 2020 British season he signed for the Belle Vue Aces in the SGB Premiership and the Edinburgh Monarchs in the SGB Championship. [7]

In 2022, he rode for the King's Lynn Stars in the SGB Premiership 2022 and for the Leicester Lions in the SGB Championship 2022. [8]

In 2023, he signed for Peterborough Panthers in the SGB Premiership 2023 [9] and Plymouth Gladiators for the SGB Championship 2023. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Rider Index", speedwaygb.co, retrieved 2012-06-10
  3. ↑ "Stoke Potters sign Richie Worrall", BBC, 28 November 2011, retrieved 2012-06-10
  4. ↑ "Newcastle Diamonds sign Kyle Newman and Richie Worrall", BBC, 4 December 2010, retrieved 2012-06-10
  5. 1 2 "Worrall clinches final spot", Sky Sports, 3 June 2012, retrieved 2012-06-10
  6. ↑ "Double Break for Worrall", speedway365.com, 1 July 2012, retrieved 8 August 2012
  7. ↑ "Meet the Aces". Belle Vue Aces. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  8. ↑ "British Speedway rider profile". British Speedway. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  9. ↑ "PANTHERS MOVE FOR RICHIE". British Speedway. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  10. ↑ "Gilkes back with Plymouth". British Speedway. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
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