Wimbledon Dons

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Club Information
Wimbledon Dons
Track Address	Wimbledon Stadium Plough Lane Wimbledon London
Country	England
Founded	1929
Closed	2005
Website	Link
Club Facts
Colours	Yellow Star on Red
Track size	355 yards
Major Team Honours
National League Champions National Trophy Winners KO Cup Winners	1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 1938, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970

The Wimbledon Dons were a motorcycle speedway team who operated from the Wimbledon Stadium, Plough Lane in London.^[1]^[2].

They operated from 1929 until 1991. They were closed during the war but upon their re-opening there were 42,000 people in attendance with an estimated 10,000 more locked oustide.

They reopened again in 2002 by Steve Ribbons & David Croucher in the Conference League but were forced to close in 2005, with Ian Perkin, Dingle Brown & Perry Attwood being co-owners of the club when the stadium owners dramatically increased the rent. ^[3]

1 Honours
2 Notable Wimbledon Riders
3 Meeting Details
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Honours

[edit] National League

Champions: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961

[edit] National Trophy

Winners: 1938, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962

[edit] RAC Cup

Winners: 1954

[edit] Britannia Shield

Winner: 1959

[edit] KO Cup

Winners: 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970

[edit] Conference Pairs Champions

Winners: 2004, 2005

[edit] Notable Wimbledon Riders

Barry Briggs (World Champion 1957, 1958, 1964, 1966)
John Davis
Vic Duggan
Andy Grahame
Oliver Hart
Trevor Hedge
Vic Huxley
Edward Jancarz
Tommy Jansson
Dave Jessup
Gordon Kennett
Gus Kuhn
Geoff Mardon
Ivan Mauger (World Champion 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1979)
Garry Middleton
Ronnie Moore (World Champion 1954, 1959)

Kai Niemi
Bobby Ott
Norman Parker
Colin Richardson
Larry Ross
Malcolm Simmons
Kelvin Tatum (World Longtrack Champion 1995, 1998, 2000)
Roy Trigg
Todd Wiltshire
Mark "Buzz" Burrows
Olle Nygren

[edit] Meeting Details

Details of a number of the pre-war (WW2), post-war meetings 1946 - 1951 and meetings 1965 - 1970 can be viewed on www.speedwayreseracher.org.uk . The information is not complete and any help to complete the information would be welcomed.