Roger Hill (speedway rider)

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Roger Hill
Born9 March 1944 (1944-03-09) (age 79)
Coventry, England
NationalityBritish (English)
Career history
1965–1975 Coventry Bees
Team honours
1968 league champion (tier 1)
1967 Knockout Cup
1966, 1969
1970, 1971		 Midland Cup

Roger Alan Hill (born 9 March 1944) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from England. He earned one international cap for the England national speedway team. [1] [2]

Biography

Hill, born in Coventry, only ever rode for one team and that was his home city team, the Coventry Bees. [3] He began his British leagues career for the Midlands team during the 1965 British League season. [4] His first full season with Coventry was in 1966 and he helped the team win the Midland Cup. [5]

Hill experienced more success the following two seasons, as a member of the Knockout Cup winning team of 1967 and league champion team of 1968. [6] By 1971, he had increased his average [7] and won three successive Midland Cups with the Bees. [8] [9] [10] In 1972, he crashed and suffered facial lacerations, a broken arm and broken pelvis. This led to limited action over the next three seasons.

In 1975, Hill had his 11th and final season with the club because he had previously suffered serious injuries and his form had deserted him, resulting in retirement. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Roger Hill". WWOS backup. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "COVENTRY A TO Z". Save Coventry Speedway. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "1965 season results" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "Coventry Win Midland Cup" . Birmingham Daily Post. 20 September 1966. Retrieved 9 December 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Year by Year". Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "Rider averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Big crowd at Speedway final" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 13 October 1969. Retrieved 9 December 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "Boulger on form for Lions" . Nottingham Evening Post. 14 October 1970. Retrieved 9 December 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ "Fifth heat settles Lions" . Leicester Daily Mercury. 13 October 1971. Retrieved 9 December 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ↑ "Hill to make Bees return at Kings Lynn" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 27 May 1974. Retrieved 9 December 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
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