Simon Antony Wigg (15 October 1960 – 15 November 2000) was an English speedway, grasstrack and longtrack rider who won five World Long Track Championships and finished runner-up in the Speedway World Championship in 1989.[1][2] He earned 57 international caps for the England national speedway team.[3]
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^"ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
Simon Antony Wigg (15 October 1960 – 15 November 2000) was an English speedway, grasstrack and longtrack rider who won five World Long Track Championships...
Danish international Hans Nielsen from Birmingham for a record £30,000, SimonWigg from Cradley Heath for £25,000, Marvyn Cox for £15,000 from Rye House...
SimonWigg / Jeremy Doncaster / Simon Cross / Marvyn Cox) - 2nd - 101pts (25) 1988 - Long Beach, Veterans Memorial Stadium (with SimonWigg / Simon Cross...
World Champions Ivan Mauger, Hans Nielsen, Michael Lee, Shawn Moran, SimonWigg and Tommy Knudsen, as well as Australian's Phil Crump, Rod Hunter, Mark...
would in later years include Gary Havelock, the multi-British Champion SimonWigg, England number one Kelvin Tatum and Mark Loram. However, the club suffered...
1989 World Final. Doncaster finished equal on 12 points with countryman SimonWigg who defeated him in a run-off for second place. He also rode in the Swedish...
1982 SimonWigg Steve Schofield Sean Wilmott 1983 SimonWiggSimon Cross Steve Schofield 1984 Martin Hagon Trevor Banks Simon Cross 1985 SimonWigg Peter...
top five riders for the season were Hans Nielsen for a record £30,000, SimonWigg for £25,000, Melvyn Taylor for £12,000 and Jens Rasmussen, with Ian Clark...
the averages points limit that applied to all teams. Hans Nielsen and SimonWigg were retained, as were Andy Grahame and Marvyn Cox but Jens Ramussen was...
500") against riders such as Jason Crump, Todd Wiltshire, Ryan Sullivan, SimonWigg, Sam Ermolenko, Tony Rickardsson and Greg Hancock. He finished runner...
William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury, peer (born 1907) 15 November – SimonWigg, speedway rider (born 1960) 19 November – Jane Shaw, children's author...
to retirement the Cradley side performed just as well. Erik Gundersen, SimonWigg and Lance King were now some of the world's leading riders and backed...
Gundersen 13+2 3 Hans Nielsen 12+3 4 Mitch Shirra 12+2 5 Jan O. Pedersen 9 6 SimonWigg 9 7 Tony Olsson 8 8 Jeremy Doncaster 7 9 Andy Smith 6 10 Olli Tyrväinen...
won by Kelvin Tatum, with 1986 champion Neil Evitts in second place and SimonWigg in third. 31 May 1987 Brandon Stadium, Coventry m - exclusion for exceeding...
Continental finals and four riders would qualify through the GP Challenge. SimonWigg won the GP Challenge. First Round - 5 riders each from Sweden & Denmark...
1992. Riders over the period included Henrik Gustafsson, Roland Dannö, SimonWigg, Christer Rohlén, Lars Gunnestad, Mikael Blixt, John Cook and Stefan Dannö...
Tatum Neil Evitts SimonWigg 1988 SimonWigg Kelvin Tatum Chris Morton 1989 SimonWigg Kelvin Tatum Alan Grahame 1990 Kelvin Tatum Simon Cross Jeremy Doncaster...
rider. The team eased to the league title by a clear ten points, with SimonWigg, Andy Grahame, Marvyn Cox, Jens Rasmussen and Melvyn Taylor all riding...
in Western Australia and was won by multiple Long Track World Champion SimonWigg who was right at home on the 530 metres (580 yards) long track. Bunbury...
7 Chris Morton 8 8 John Davis 8 9 John Jørgensen 7 10 SimonWigg 7 11 Sam Ermolenko 7 12 Simon Cross 5 13 Peter Ravn 3 14 Mitch Shirra 2 15 Marvyn Cox...
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