Rory Robert Schlein (born 1 September 1984) is an Australian speedway rider.

Career

Born in

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, Schlein, lived in the southern

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suburb of Hallett Cove and won the Australian Under-16 Championship at the Northline Speedway in his home town of Darwin in 2000. Schlein was signed by the Edinburgh Monarchs in 2001 and won the Conference League championship that year while on loan at Sheffield Tigers. He won the

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championship with the Monarchs in 2003 and won the

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in 2003 and 2004 and finished 2nd to Chris Holder in 2005. He also won the South Australian Championship in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. He first extended season in the highest British league was for Belle Vue Aces during the

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. In 2005, he joined

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and would go on to win the Elite League championship with the Bees in 2007. In between Schlein represented the Australia national speedway team at the 2006 and

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, where he won a bronze medal at the latter. He was with Coventry from 2005 to 2010 with short stints at Ipswich and Peterborough in between. In 2010 he rode for Australia in the World Cup again and in 2011 won a silver medal in the 2011 World Cup although he omly rode in the rounds and not the final. Also in 2011, he joined Belle Vue again and won the Elite League Riders' Championship. From 2011 to 2016 he rode for the King's Lynn Stars and won the League Riders' championship for a second time in October 2013. In May 2015, Schlein was seriously injured while riding for

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in Poland, breaking two vertebrae and damaging his lung and kidney, ending his season and initially with concern that he could be paralysed.Chard, Henry (2015)
Rory Schlein on his crash and his road to recovery
,

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, 8 July 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2017 His recovery was documented in the film ''Addicted To Speed: The Rory Schlein Story''. He returned to ride for King's Lynn Stars in 2016, but missed part of the early season with a shoulder injury, and after struggling to score well was dropped in August. For 2017 he has signed to ride for Ipswich Witches in the SGB Championship. In 2020, he won the

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at the National Speedway Stadium in Manchester. In 2021, he helped Poole secure the

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league and cup double. In 2023, he returned to Wolves for the SGB Premiership 2023, he had previously ridden for them from 2017 to 2021. He also signed for Berwick Bandits for the

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Family

He is the son of the 1974 Northern Territory solo champion Lyndon Schlein.

Major results

Speedway World Cup

* 2006 Speedway World Cup - 4th *

- bronze *

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- 5th * 2011 Speedway World Cup - silver

Individual Under-21 World Championship

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- 4th - 8pts (fell in the Final)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schlein, Rory Australian speedway riders 1984 births Living people Belle Vue Aces riders Berwick Bandits riders Coventry Bees riders Edinburgh Monarchs riders Ipswich Witches riders King's Lynn Stars riders Peterborough Panthers riders Sheffield Tigers riders Wolverhampton Wolves riders