Todd Wiltshire
| Born |
26 September 1968 Bankstown, New South Wales |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Australia
|
| Current club information | |
| Career status | Retired |
| Career history | |
| Great Britain | |
| 1988-1989 | Wimbledon Dons |
| 1990-1992 | Reading Racers |
| 2006 | Oxford Cheetahs |
| Poland | |
| ? | Polonia Bydgoszcz |
| Individual honours | |
| 1987, 1988 | ACT State Champion |
| 1989 | Scottish Open Champion |
| 1990, 2000, 2001 | NSW State Champion |
| 1990 | British Speedway Rider of the Year |
| 1990 | Billy Sanders Australian Open winner |
| 1991 | Mr Melbourne winner |
| 1997, 1998 | German Champion |
| 1999, 2001 | Australian Champion |
| 1999 | Intercontinental Champion |
| Team honours | |
| 1990 | British League winner |
| 1990 | British League Knockout Cup winner |
| 1991 | Australian Best Pairs Champion |
| 1999 | Speedway World Team Cup |
| 2001, 2002 | Speedway World Cup |
Todd Wiltshire (born 26 September 1968 in Bankstown, New South Wales) is a retired Australian motorcycle speedway rider who competed at the highest level of the sport, finishing a career best third in the 1990 Individual Speedway World Championship at the Odsal Stadium in Bradford, England. He is also a two time Australian Champion, winning in 1999 and 2001.
Despite being born in Sydney, Todd Wiltshire spent most of his childhood in Newcastle. He started racing in 1979 at the Lake Macquarie Mini-Cycle Club, giving his older sister Fiona the credit for getting him started in racing saying she was his inspiration through her own involvement in dirt track racing. Wiltshire won numerous junior titles before capturing the Australian 500cc championship in his first senior year in 1986.
Seeking a new challenge Wiltshire turned to Speedway in late 1986 and won the ACT Championship in both 1987 and 1988 at the Tralee Speedway in Australia's capital city Canberra and quickly established himself as one of the most promising young riders in Australia, finishing 4th in the 1989 Australian Under-21 Championship in Mildura. He won his first major senior title in 1990 taking out the New South Wales Championship at his home track, the Newcastle Motordrome, which had become the centre of Solo racing in NSW following the closure of the Liverpool City Raceway in 1989 and with the Sydney Showground Speedway only holding one or two meetings per year. Unfortunately family commitments kept him out of the Australian Final at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground but he was seeded directly into the Commonwealth Final at the Belle Vue Stadium in Manchester, England where he finished a respectable 6th to qualify for the Intercontinental Final. Wiltshire finished 11th in Vojens in Denmark to be the only Australian and final qualifier for the World Final in Bradford.
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