The 2001 Premier League speedway season was the second division of

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in the

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and governed by the

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(SCB), in conjunction with the

British Speedway Promoters' Association The British Speedway Promoters Limited (BSPL) organises the domestic motorcycle speedway competitions in the United Kingdom. They are also responsible for the promotion and running of the FIM meetings staged in Britain. Wimbledon controller Ronn ...

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Season summary

The League consisted of 15 teams for the 2001 season with the addition of a new teams, the

Trelawny Tigers Trelawny Tigers operated as a British Premier League speedway team from 2001 to 2003 at the Clay Country Moto Parc in St Austell, Cornwall, England. History At the end of the 2000 speedway season a team called St Austell Gulls handed their ...

. The League was run on a standard format with no play-offs and was won by Newcastle Diamonds.

Final table

Fixtures & results

Premier League Knockout Cup

The 2001 Premier League Knockout Cup was the 34th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams.

Hull Vikings The Hull Vikings were a Motorcycle speedway, speedway team from Kingston upon Hull, Hull, England, who operated from 1971 to 2005, primarily from The Boulevard (stadium) and Craven Park, Hull, Craven Park. History Origins, 1940s and Hull An ...

were the winners of the competition. First round Quarter-finals Semi-finals

Final

First leg Second leg Hull were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 105–75.

Riders' Championship

Carl Stonehewer Carl Bryan Stonehewer (born 16 May 1972) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. He earned seven international caps for the England national speedway team and five caps for the Great Britain team. Career Stonehewer's principal club ...

won the Riders' Championship for the second successive season. The final was held on 9 September at

Brandon Stadium Brandon Stadium, also known as Coventry Stadium, is located 6 miles east of Coventry in Brandon, Warwickshire, England. It was the home of the Coventry Bees motorcycle speedway team. It also hosted BriSCA F1 Stock Car Racing on the 1st Saturd ...

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Pairs

The

Premier League Pairs Championship The SGB Championship Pairs formerly the Premier League Pairs Championship (from 1997 to 2016) is a motorcycle speedway contest for the second tier teams in the United Kingdom to determine the Pairs champions. The teams consist of the top two ri ...

was held at

Derwent Park Derwent Park is a Rugby League Stadium and former motorcycle speedway in Workington, England situated beside the Cumbrian River Derwent. It is used mostly for rugby league matches and is the home stadium of Workington Town who play in Leagu ...

on 14 July. The event was won by Workington Comets for the third successive season. Group A *Reading (Gjedde & Castagna) *Sheffield (Wilson & Kessler) *Exeter (Coles & Simmonds) *Newport (Masters & Cunningham) *Swindon (Fry & Kristensen) Group B *Workington (Stonehewer & Karlsson) *Newcastle (Pedersen & Olsen) *Isle of Wight (Morton & Bird) *Arena Essex (White & Lanham) *Edinburgh (Carr & Eriksson) Final *Workington (Stonehewer & Karlsson) bt Newcastle (Olsen & Pedersen)

Fours

Workington Comets won the

Premier League Four-Team Championship The SGB Championship Fours formerly the Premier League Four-Team Championship is a contest between teams competing in the second tier of speedway in the United Kingdom. Teams are grouped into fours, with one rider from each team in each race. The ...

, which was held on 5 August 2001, at the

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Leading averages

Riders & final averages

Arena Essex * Leigh Lanham 8.84 * Colin White 8.08 *Troy Pratt 7.67 * Shaun Tacey 7.20 *Lee Dicken 5.47 *Luke Clifton 4.00 * Andy Galvin 3.40 *Brent Collyer 3.24 *Lee Herne 2.91 * Barrie Evans 2.63 Berwick *

Adrian Rymel Adrian Rymel (born 30 October 1975 in Štramberk, Czechoslovakia) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from the Czech Republic. He earned 8 international caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team. Career Rymel started his British sp ...

7.05 * Scott Lamb 6.96 *

Scott Robson Scott Robson (born 15 August 1971) is a former international speedway rider from England. Speedway career Robson rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1987 to 2005, riding for various clubs. He started his career at Berwick Bandits ...

6.84 *

Michal Makovský Michal Makovský (born 6 April 1976) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from the Czech Republic. He earned 3 international caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team. Career He started in the 2000 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Repub ...

6.73 *David Meldrum 6.58 *Wayne Carter 5.49 *Bevan Compton .27 *

Josef Franc Josef Franc (born 18 January 1979) is a Czech former international motorcycle racer who competed in Grasstrack, Longtrack and motorcycle speedway. He earned 8 international caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team Career In 2001, Fr ...

5.25 *Will Beveridge 4.76 *David McAllan 2.88 Edinburgh * Peter Carr 10.01 * Jan Andersen 8.03 *

Robert Eriksson Robert Eriksson may refer to: * Robert Eriksson (politician) * Robert Eriksson (tennis) * Robert Eriksson (speedway rider) See also

* Matz Robert Eriksson, drummer of Swedish rock band The Hellacopters * Robert S. Erikson, political scientist ...

7.83 * Daniel Andersson 7.01 *Christian Henry 5.15 *Blair Scott 5.08 *Ben Shields 4.73 *Derek Sneddon 3.77 *

Rory Schlein Rory Robert Schlein (born 1 September 1984) is an Australian speedway rider. Career Born in Darwin, Northern Territory, Schlein, lived in the southern Adelaide suburb of Hallett Cove and won the Australian Under-16 Championship at the North ...

1.29 Exeter * Michael Coles 9.19 *Mark Simmonds 8.05 * Lawrence Hare 7.74 *Seemond Stephens 7.62 *Bobby Eldridge 5.28 *Krister Marsh 5.02 *Matt Cambridge 4.13 *Jason Prynne 3.37 *David Osborn 0.47 Glasgow *

James Grieves James Robert Grieves (born 28 September 1974), is a former professional motorcycle speedway rider from Scotland. Career Born in Paisley, Scotland in 1974, Grieves took up speedway at the age of fifteen when he attended one of Olle Nygren's tra ...

8.47 *

Les Collins Leslie Collins (born 24 May 1958) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. He finished runner-up in the 1982 Speedway World Championship as well as winning the Intercontinental Final in 1982, the British Under-21 Championship in 197 ...

8.07 * Emiliano Sanchez 7.25 *Mark Courtney 6.53 *Stuart Swales 5.33 *

Henning Bager Henning Bager (born 18 February 1981) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Denmark. Biography Bager was born in Esbjerg.Derek Sneddon 3.66 *Scott Courtney 1.71 Hull * Paul Thorp 9.03 * Paul Bentley 8.49 * David Walsh 8.06 * Garry Stead 8.00 *Ross Brady 6.98 *Lee Dicken 6.58 *Jamie Smith 5.27 *Mike Smith 4.83 *Justin Elkins 3.05 Isle of Wight * Ray Morton 9.42 * Danny Bird 8.79 *

Adam Shields Adam Matthew Shields (born 8 February 1977 in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, is an Australian former international motorcycle speedway rider, who has ridden for multiple teams in the British speedway. Speedway career He first rode in the Unit ...

8.61 *

Davey Watt David John Watt (born 6 January 1978 in Townsville, Queensland) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Australia. He won the Queensland state championship in 2005 and was a member of the Australian team that finished second to ...

6.47 *

Sebastien Trésarrieu Sebastien Tresarrieu (born 10 January 1981) is a French motorcycle racer and competes in Grasstrack, Longtrack and motorcycle speedway. He earned 2 caps for the France national speedway team. Career Sebastien raced in Britain from 2001 unti ...

6.46 *Scott Swain 6.16 * Glen Phillips 4.42 Newcastle *

Bjarne Pedersen Bjarne Aagaard Pedersen (born 12 July 1978 in Holstebro, Denmark) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider who represented Denmark in the Speedway World Cup, winning it on two occasions: in 2006 and 2008. Career summary Pedersen beg ...

10.16 *

Andre Compton Andre Neil Compton (born 15 May 1977 in Dewsbury, England) is a former speedway rider from England. He is the older brother of Benji Compton. Career summary In 1999, he was part of the Sheffield four that won the Premier League Four-Team Cha ...

8.13 *

Jesper Olsen Jesper Olsen (born 20 March 1961) is a Danish former professional association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Winger, left winger. He is best remembered for representing AFC Ajax, Ajax of the Netherlands and Manchester United F.C ...

8.11 * Kevin Little 7.58 * Richard Juul 5.26 *Rob Grant Jr 5.02 * James Birkinshaw 4.25 *Grant MacDonald 3.11 Newport * Anders Henriksson 8.95 * Glenn Cunningham 7.55 * Steve Masters 7.47 * Emil Lindqvist 6.92 * Scott Smith 6.32 * Chris Neath 6.30 *Krister Marsh 4.57 * Carl Wilkinson 4.50 *Tommy Palmer 4.48 *Nick Simmons 3.48 *Rob Finlow 1.88 Reading *

Armando Castagna Armando Castagna (born 22 September 1963) is a former Italian international motorcycle speedway rider. He was a member of the Italy national team and has represented them in several World Team Cup competitions. He is a record 12 times Italian ...

9.05 *

Charlie Gjedde Charlie Rasmussen Gjedde (born 28 December 1979 in Holstebro, Denmark) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Denmark, who won the Speedway World Cup with Denmark national speedway team, Denmark in 2006 Speedway World Cup, 2006. ...

8.94 * Phil Morris 8.42 * Dave Mullett 7.77 * Paul Clews 7.39 *Shane Colvin 5.38 *Tommy Palmer 3.51 *

Chris Schramm Christopher Paul Schramm (born 30 May 1984) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. Speedway career Schramm began his career riding for the Peterborough Pumas in the 2000 Speedway Conference League. The following season he finishe ...

2.82 *Brendon McKay 0.94 Sheffield * Sean Wilson 10.39 *

Simon Stead Simon Trevor Stead (born 25 April 1982) is a retired motorcycle speedway rider and team manager. He earned 11 international caps for the Great Britain national speedway team. From 2019, he has been joint manager of the Great Britain team with O ...

9.98 *

Robbie Kessler Robert Kessler (born 5 April 1973 in Neuwied, West Germany) is a former motorcycle speedway rider, from Germany. He earned 5 international caps for the German national speedway team. Career Kessler represented Germany at the Speedway World Te ...

8.83 * Scott Smith 7.18 * Lee Complin 5.50 *Adam Allott 4.86 * Andrew Moore 4.81 *Lee Redmond 4.64 *Lee Hodgson 3.19 Stoke *

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8.85 * Paul Pickering 8.21 *Tony Atkin 7.26 *Mark Burrows 6.11 *

Jon Armstrong Jon Thomas Armstrong (born 1 August 1974) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. Career Armstrong started racing in the British leagues during the 1992 British League season, when riding a couple of times in the reserve berth fo ...

4.79 *Wayne Broadhurst 4.47 *Dean Felton 3.91 *Will Beveridge 3.41 *Grant MacDonald 3.06 *Neil Painter 1.37 Swindon * Paul Fry 8.27 * Claus Kristensen 7.77 * Oliver Allen 7.73 * Alan Mogridge 7.63 * Martin Dixon 7.11 *

Alun Rossiter Alun John Rossiter (born 23 July 1965, in Swindon, England) is a former motorcycle speedway rider and team manager. He earned eight international caps for the England national speedway team and was the Great Britain team manager from 2014 to 20 ...

7.10 *Mark Steel 6.20 * Ritchie Hawkins 4.52 Trelawny *

Chris Harris Chris Harris may refer to: Sportspeople * Chris Harris (basketball) (1933–2022), English basketballer * Chris Harris (cricketer) (born 1969), New Zealand cricketer * Chris Harris (darts player) (born 1977), Welsh darts player * Chris Harris (rowe ...

7.82 *

Pavel Ondrašík Pavel Ondrašík (born 10 December 1975 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech former motorcycle speedway rider. Career Ondrasik failed to gain a work permit despite agreeing terms with Reading Racers in 1996. He finally rode in the United K ...

6.64 * Brett Woodifield 6.59 * Mark Courtney 6.21 *Graeme Gordon 5.55 * Kenny Olsson 5.00 * Richard Wolff 5.00 * Steffen Mell 4.20 *Gary Phelps 4.00 *Simon Phillips 3.55 *Lee Herne 3.28 Workington *

10.29 * Peter Ingvar Karlsson 9.03 * Neil Collins 7.67 * Mick Powell 7.51 *

Rusty Harrison Russell Wade Harrison (born 11 October 1981 in Elizabeth, South Australia) is an Australian former motorcycle speedway rider. Career summary Harrison won the Australian Under-16 Championship in 1995 in Perth and again in 1997 at his home tra ...

7.25 * Lee Smethills 4.39 *James Mann 3.03 *David McAllan 2.66 * Craig Branney 1.55

References

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