chunky Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Bob Andrews, Bill Landels, Tadeusz Teodorowicz, Ronnie Moore, Joe Weichlbauer, Dave Gifford, Rune Holta, Mitch Shirra, Roman Povazhny, John Cook. Steve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin man 76 Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Joonas Kylmakorpi - one admitedly rather than ten! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
False dawn Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Pinched from Wikipedia...... Ronnie Moore In 1950 at the age of 17, Moore was the youngest rider ever to qualify for the final of the Speedway World Championship. He won the championship in 1954 and again in 1959. He also finished runner up on three further occasions. His first win was all the more notable given the facts that he was still only 21 years of age, that he was riding with a broken leg and that he won with a maximum score. Got to be a good candidate for your list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted January 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 7 minutes ago, False dawn said: Pinched from Wikipedia...... Ronnie Moore In 1950 at the age of 17, Moore was the youngest rider ever to qualify for the final of the Speedway World Championship. He won the championship in 1954 and again in 1959. He also finished runner up on three further occasions. His first win was all the more notable given the facts that he was still only 21 years of age, that he was riding with a broken leg and that he won with a maximum score. Got to be a good candidate for your list! Which is why he is on my list... My mum was at Wembley that night! Steve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, moomin man 76 said: Joonas Kylmakorpi - one admitedly rather than ten! Joonas being pedantic doesn’t really fit as someone who changed nationality.I think he always had dual nationality and just used whichever he fancied in his favour One or two of the Argentinians like Sanchez or Covatti might also fall into that category of having dual nationality? Ferjan is someone who did change nationality There is a good chance some of the Poles were born in Germany.Plech was born in a former german town that became part of Poland a few years before he was born.Wyglenda for instance was born in Rybnik in 1941 when it was again after a gap of 20 year a part of Germany.In fact in the Bote after WW1 as to which country the people wanted to be part of,Rybnik voted with a good majority to stay in Germany,but the surrounding area was massively in favour of being part of Poland.A similar thing happened in Vojens with Germany/Denmark,where Vojens wanted to remain German,but the surrounding rural area held the majority for Denmark Some Yugoslavians or Soviet riders changed nationality due to their former country no longer existing.Trofimov was I think Soviet and later Ukraine Edited January 30, 2019 by iris123 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andout Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 How about Mark Loram? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Warren Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Peter Vandenberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted January 31, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Graham Warren said: Peter Vandenberg Good call! Very accomplished rider who doesn't seem too well remembered these days. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted January 31, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 1 hour ago, andout said: How about Mark Loram? As far as I am aware, Mark was only ever English; he never claimed Maltese nationality. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 How many USSR riders came within 'new' republics i.e Ukraine and Russia basically after the USSR (Soviet Union) changed its political status? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Russian International Sergy Darkin is a native of Uzbekistan, formerly of course part of the USSR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grachan Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Didn't Swindon legend Jerzy Trzeszkowski become Swedish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted February 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Grachan said: Didn't Swindon legend Jerzy Trzeszkowski become Swedish? Pretty sure he did, although it was at the end of his career, and I don't think he ever represented Sweden in international competition. I came close to including him on the list... Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 12 minutes ago, chunky said: Pretty sure he did, although it was at the end of his career, and I don't think he ever represented Sweden in international competition. I came close to including him on the list... Steve Yes I'm sure he did and if I recall it was Jan Andersson who recommended him to 'The Robins' as they rode for the same Swedish team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Not to forget those like ex Trelawney rider,Mirko Wolter who started out as an East German and ended as German Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovalman Posted February 2, 2019 Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) Rune Holta the Polish Norwegian Edited February 2, 2019 by auntie doris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovalman Posted February 2, 2019 Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 16 hours ago, Grachan said: Didn't Swindon legend Jerzy Trzeszkowski become Swedish? He became rubbish as well at Swindon, a true leg end ole Jerzy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted February 3, 2019 Report Share Posted February 3, 2019 Not the same thing however I remember Wiggy taking out a Dutch license and Marvyn Cox a German one purely for convenience due to problems they had experienced with the governing ACU within the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 3, 2019 Report Share Posted February 3, 2019 I don't think that a rider changing his racing licence is the same as changing his nationality. The latter is a complex legal matter and can take several years to be ratified and then implemented. Many of the riders who have been named merely changed the country where they chose - for convenience - to be licensed by. It would be interesting to learn how many of the riders named so far actually went through a complex legal naturalisation to another country rather than just decided for convenience to race on a different country's licence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted February 3, 2019 Report Share Posted February 3, 2019 I think all of those mentioned apart from those with a different license,Kylmakorpi the Argentine Italians possibly went through some process of getting another nationality.It might not have been s complicated two year process for those who found their original country no longer existed I.e Soviets,Yugoslavia,Czechoslovakia,East German ,But it was a process Gregori Laguta found the process of getting a Latvian Citizenship too difficult and gave up,as apparently Latvia have a tough language test you have to pass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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