Ryan Sullivan
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| Born |
20 January 1975 Fitzroy, Victoria |
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| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Website | Sullifan.com |
| Current club information | |
| Career status | Retired |
| Polish league | Unibax Torun |
| Swedish league | Indianerna |
| Russian league | Mega-Lada Togilatti |
| Career history | |
| 1995–1997, 1999–2003 2006, 2008 1998, 2004–2005 |
Peterborough Panthers Poole Pirates |
| Individual honours | |
| 1990, 1991 | South Australian Under-16 Champion |
| 1991 | Australian Under-16 Champion |
| 1993, 1996 | Australian Under-21 Champion |
| 1995, 1996, 1997 | South Australian Champion |
| 1995 | Overseas Champion |
| 1997 | Intercontinental Champion |
| 1997, 2003 | Golden Helmet of Pardubice (CZE) |
| 2000 | Elite League Riders Champion |
| 2004 | Australian Champion |
| 2009 | Alfred Smoczyk Memorial winner |
| Team honours | |
| 1999 | World Team Cup |
| 2001, 2002 | World Cup |
| 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 | South Australian U/16 Pairs Champion |
| 1989, 1990, 1991 | Australian Under-16 Pairs Champion |
| 1997 | Elite League Fours Winner |
| 1997 | Swedish Allsvenskan |
| 1999, 2001, 2004 | Elite League Champion |
| 1999, 2004 | Elite League KO Cup Winner |
| 1999 | Craven Shield Winner |
| 2001, 2002, 2003 | Swedish Elitserien |
Ryan Geoffrey Sullivan (born 20 January 1975, in Fitzroy, Victoria) is a retired Australian international Motorcycle speedway rider who has won the Australian senior, Under-21, and Under-16 championships during his career. Sullivan achieved a career best third in the 2002 Speedway Grand Prix, winning two of the ten Grand Prix run during the year.
Sullivan's family moved from Melbourne to Adelaide in the late 1970s, and as a child Sullivan played Australian Rules Football, but became interested in speedway when it became obvious that he was not of the ideal build to be a league footballer.
His parents bought him a junior speedway bike and he had his first ride at the Olympic Park Speedway in Mildura in 1985, although his home track was the Sidewinders Speedway in the Adelaide suburb of Wingfield, a 112m long track run by the Sidewinders Junior Speedway Club solely aimed at junior Motorcycle speedway development. Within a few seasons Sullivan was seen as one of the best junior riders in South Australia, winning the South Australian Under-16 Individual title in 1990 and 1991 while winning the Pairs Championships in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991.
Sullivan finished in second place at the 1990 Australian Under-16 Championship in Perth behind future Australian team mate and three time World Champion Jason Crump. He would go one better on 12 January 1991 winning his first individual Australian title at his home track in Adelaide.
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