Ronnie Moore (speedway rider)
Ronnie Moore (left) with Igor Plechanov and Barry Briggs
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| Born |
8 March 1933 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
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| Nationality |
 New Zealand
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| Current club information | |
| Career status | Retired |
| Career history | |
| 1950–63, 1969–72 | Wimbledon Dons |
| 1974 | Coventry Bees |
| Individual honours | |
| 1954, 1959 | World Champion |
| 1952, 1972 | London Riders' Champion |
| 1952, 1960 | Brandonapolis |
| 1952, 1955, 1956, 1960 | The Laurels |
| 1956, 1962, 1968, 1969 | New Zealand Champion |
| 1960 | Tom Farndon Memorial winner |
| Team honours | |
| 1970 | World Pairs Champion |
| 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 |
National League winner |
| 1950, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962 |
National Trophy winner |
| 1962 | National League KO Cup winner |
| 1969, 1970 | British League KO Cup Winner |
| 1969, 1970 | London Cup Winner |
| 1954 | RAC Cup Winner |
| 1959 | Britannia Shield Winner |
Ronald Leslie Moore MBE (born 8 March 1933) is a former New Zealand international speedway rider. He twice won the Individual World Speedway Championship, in 1954 and 1959.
Moore was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1933. He moved with his family to New Zealand when he was still a child, and although he was born in Australia, Moore has always considered himself to be a New Zealander and always rode under the flag of his adopted home.
Moore began riding at the Aranui Speedway in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1949 at the age of 15. He moved to England and rode for the Wimbledon Dons from 1950 to 1956. In 1957 and 1958 he switched his attention to motor racing, but returned to ride for the Dons in late 1958 and stayed with them until 1963 when he decided to retire from racing after breaking his leg in a track crash. He began riding again in New Zealand in the mid-1960s and made a comeback with Wimbledon in 1969 and reached the World Final at the age of 36. In 1970 he won the World Pairs Championship with Ivan Mauger. He retired from racing in the British League at the end of 1972, apart from a couple of meetings for Coventry Bees in August 1974, but continued riding speedway until 1975 when he suffered severe head injuries in a crash at Jerilderie Park Speedway in New South Wales.
Moore won the New Zealand Championship in 1956, 1962, 1968 and 1969.
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