Richard Thomas Sweetman (born 28 July 1990 in Maitland, New South Wales) is an Australian former

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.

Career

Born in Maitland, the birthplace of motorcycle speedway (1926), Sweetman won the New South Wales Under-21 individual championship in 2007.Richard Sweetman
", Leicester Speedway, retrieved 2011-03-27 He rode for the

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, Isle of Wight Islanders,

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, and

Coventry Bees Coventry Bees are a motorcycle speedway team that existed from 1929 to 2018. They raced at Brandon Stadium, Brandon, Warwickshire, Brandon near Coventry, England. They are eight times champions of Britain. History Origins and 1920s The firs ...

. He was part of the Birmingham four who won the Premier League Four-Team Championship, on 15 August 2010, at the East of England Arena. He signed for Leicester Lions for the 2011 season, but was allowed to leave Leicester in June, stating that he wanted to take a break from the sport, only to sign for Glasgow Tigers a few days later.Wilson, Fraser (2011)
Speedway: Glasgow Tigers Sign Richard Sweetman Ahead Of Leicester Clash
, ''The Glaswegian'', 1 July 2011, retrieved 2011-10-02 However, 2011 was his last season in Britain.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sweetman, Richard 1990 births Living people Australian speedway riders Leicester Lions riders Australian expatriate speedway riders in England Sportspeople from Maitland, New South Wales Sportsmen from New South Wales 21st-century Australian sportsmen