Greg Kentwell
Born1942
Sydney, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Career history
1966–1972Halifax
1966Long Eaton
Team honours
1966League champion (tier 1)
1966Knockout Cup (tier 1)

Greg Kentwell (born 1942) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Australia. He earned 18 international caps for the Australia national speedway team and one cap for the Great Britain national speedway team.[1]

Biography

Kentwell, born in Sydney, began racing midget cars before taking up speedway in 1957 at the Cumberland Oval in Parramatta, aged just 15. He became a protégé of Lionel Van Praag and began his British leagues career riding for Halifax Dukes during the 1966 British League season.[2][3]

He contributed towards the Halifax league and cup double winning season of 1966[4] despite spending the latter part of the season riding for Long Eaton Archers on loan.[5]

He spent the rest of his British career riding for Halifax from 1967 to 1972,[6] in which time he was third on the Halifax averages in 1971 with a 7.67 average.[7] In June 1969, he would gain a call up for the Great Britain team, which at the time could include Commonwealth riders, for a match against Sweden.[8]

He continued to ride in Australia afterwards and would earn 18 test caps in total for his country, including an 18-point maximum against England in December 1967. He retired to concentrate on his plumbing business and later moved to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland and moved into the dredging industry.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Easter Saturday event at the Shay". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 4 April 1966. Retrieved 29 December 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "1966 season" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Oakes, Peter (1978). 1978 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. ISBN 978-0904584509.
  5. ↑ "Year by Year". Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  6. ↑ "Greg Kentwell". WWOS backup. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "Rider averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "First cap for Kentwell". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 17 June 1969. Retrieved 29 December 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "Greg Kentwell". Speedway Star. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
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