Graham Warren (1926 in

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, Fiji – 2005)Buck, B (2007) ''Brummies Legends'', Pendragon Books. was an international

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rider who finished third in the 1950 Speedway World Championship final and was a member of the Australian national speedway team.Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). ''A History of the World Speedway Championship''. Stroud: Tempus Publishing.

Career

Warren arrived in the UK in March 1948 and signed up with the

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in the National League Division Two. The Brummies finished second and were promoted to National League Division One for the 1949 season. In sixty meetings that season, Warren was unbeaten by an opponent in twenty five of them and

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d almost eleven points a match. In the May 1948, just two months after arriving in the UK for a trial with Birmingham, Warren was selected to ride for Australia. By 1949 he was the captain of his country. In 1949, despite being in a tougher division he still scored almost ten points a meeting and he qualified for his first World Final. In 1949, he finished third in the Australian Championship and finished second a year later in 1950. Also in 1950, Warren qualified and finished in third place during the

1950 Individual Speedway World Championship The 1950 Individual Speedway World Championship was the fifth edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider. Speedway riders from New Zealand and Wales appeared in the World Championship for the first time. The ...

. In early 1951, a severe accident at a meeting in New Zealand left Warren with a triple skull fracture and his career was never to hit the heights of 1950 again.

World final appearances

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- 12th - 5pts *

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...

- 3rd - 12pts *

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh ...

- 13th - 5pts * 1953 -

- 12th - 5pts

References

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