Colin William Gooddy (22 June 1933 – 13 April 2019) was an international

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

rider for the

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. He earned one international cap for the

Speedway career

Gooddy rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1955-1977, riding for various clubs. He rode most of his domestic career for

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, becoming a heat leader for them and representing them in three separate spells from 1958 to 1960, 1962 to 1964 and from 1967 to 1972. Gooddy reached the final of the

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in 1965.

References

1933 births 2019 deaths British speedway riders Cradley Heathens riders Crayford Kestrels riders Eastbourne Eagles riders Exeter Falcons riders Ipswich Witches riders Oxford Cheetahs riders Poole Pirates riders Rayleigh Rockets riders People from Blackheath, London Sportspeople from the London Borough of Lewisham Sportspeople from the Royal Borough of Greenwich {{England-speedway-bio-stub