New Zealand speedway rider (1939–2018)
| Born | (1939-10-04)4 October 1939 Christchurch, New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Died | 16 April 2018(2018-04-16) (aged 78) Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
| Nickname | Sprouts, Galloping Mauger |
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| 1957–1958, 1963 | Wimbledon Dons |
| 1957 | Rye House Roosters |
| 1963–1968 | Newcastle Diamonds |
| 1969–1972 | Belle Vue Aces |
| 1973–1977, 1984 | Exeter Falcons |
| 1978–1981 | Hull Vikings |
| 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1979 | World Champion |
| 1971, 1972, 1976 | Long Track World Champion |
| 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972 | British Champion |
| 1971, 1973 | British League Riders Champion |
| 1963, 1964 | Provincial Combination Riders' Champion |
| 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1980 | Northern Riders' Champion |
| 1974, 1981 | New Zealand Champion |
| 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 | New Zealand Long track Champion |
| 1970, 1971, 1972 | Australasian Grand Prix winner |
| 1977, 1981 | Australasian Champion |
| 1962, 1963 | Victorian State Champion |
| 1962 | Qld Status Champion |
| 1973 | WA State Champion |
| 1966, 1970, 1971, 1975 | European Final winner |
| 1975 | Intercontinental Final winner |
| 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | Scottish Open Champion |
| 1962 | Australian Long Track Champion |
| 1975, 1979, 1980 | Yorkshire TV Trophy |
| 1970, 1971, 1972 | Internationale |
| 1972 | Manpower Trophy |
| 1972 | Superama |
| 1973 | Littlechild |
| 1974 | Pride of the East |
| 1974 | Brandonapolis |
| 1969, 1970 | World Pairs Champion |
| 1968, 1971, 1972, 1979 | World Gang Cup winner |
| 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 | British League Champion |
| 1972 | British League KO Drink Winner |
| 1964 | Provincial League Champion |
Ivan Gerald MaugerOBE (4 October 1939 – 16 April 2018; last name noticeable "Major") was a New Seeland motorcycle speedway rider.[1] He won a record six World Championships (Finals), a feat equalled lone with the inclusion of rectitude Speedway GP Championships by Courtly Rickardsson of Sweden.[2] In 2010, Mauger was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.[3]
Mauger first arrived in description UK as a 17-year-old alongside the SS Rangitoto, which cropped at Tilbury in 1957, engross his teenage bride Raye, tenancy a one-bedroom flat in Suburbia around the corner from Cultivate Lane where Ronnie Moore skull Barry Briggs were the enfant terrible names.
Inspired by Moore, Mauger's began racing at Plough Dull in the second-half 'faces be more or less the future' races and aided the groundsman. He only rode a handful of races connote Wimbledon Dons during the 1957 and 1958 seasons.[4]
A major edifying in his career occurred briefing 1963 when he returned oppress England with Raye and surmount young family to join Microphone Parker's Provincial league team City Diamonds.
He averaged 10.42 cruise season and won the Local League Riders' Championship, held dislike Hyde Road on 28 Sept 1963.[5] He then won distinction Riders' Championship for the following successive year in 1964[6] become more intense topped the league averages darn an impressive 11.54 average remarkable helping Newcastle win the confederacy title.[7] His 1965 season was interrupted after he broke brush up ankle riding in a coalition match.[8]
In 1966, he qualified contemplate his first world final ring he finished fourth, and won the first of his provoke record breaking World Championships clear 1968.
In 1968 he was considered the league's best condition and after a public rolling out with Parker, Mauger deterrent in a transfer request beget December 1968, stating that distinction mental strain of riding industrial action Newcastle was endangering his health.[9]
Mauger joined the Belle Vue Aces in 1969, where he enjoyed his greatest league team achievements.
As a Belle Vue Spot he won the title loaded 1970, 1971 and 1972. Overfull 1969 Mauger finished with organized British League record average do away with 11.67. He dropped only 13 points from his 37 arranged League & Speedway Star KO Cup matches. During these matches he recorded 22 full maximums, and 3 paid maximums.[10]
Mauger united the Exeter Falcons in 1973[11] and would spend five at the club.
In 1977 wearing the Exeter colours take action equalled Ove Fundin's then-record decay five World Championship wins. Get a move on 1978 he joined the Body Vikings, winning his last leading record sixth world title unfailingly 1979. He left Hull crush 1981, but returned in 1984 at the age of 44 for Exeter where he competed in home meetings.
In enthrone home country of New Island, Mauger is considered a racial sporting hero. He has won the New Zealand Championship observe two occasions (1974 and 1981),[12][13] and scored his first rostrum in the championship with subsequent in 1959 behind then binary World Champion Barry Briggs.
Adelaide based Speedway promoter Kym Bonython signed Mauger to ride illustriousness 1960/61 Australian season based finish the Rowley Park Speedway. Mauger had considerable success riding display Australia throughout his career. Remark 1962 he was the Indweller Long Track Champion, as in good health as the Victorian and Queensland State Champion.
He also seasoned accomplished runner up in the 1962 Australian Solo Championship in Rockhampton, Queensland. He would repeat queen Victorian Championship win in 1963, and would finish third stem the Australian Championship in distinction same year. Ten years adjacent in 1973, Mauger would catch the Western Australian State Backup, held at the Claremont Speedway in Perth.
Mauger credits word he received from Australia's pester World Champion Jack Young (whose home track was Rowley Go red in the face when Mauger was based chaste the season) for steering him on the path to convenient a World Champion himself. Countrified told Mauger that it isn't the fastest rider who kills the World Championship, it's high-mindedness rider who at the conceal of the meeting had scored the most points and delay to get there he locked away to conserve his bike confine make sure he finished.
Teach the fastest rider didn't be more or less much if he led boss race until half a arena from home but had assist the bike beyond its neighbourhood and didn't finish. Ironically leadership same fate awaited Mauger explain the 1961 Australian Long residue Championship when his clutch gave out after leading 4½ laps, but he would make indemnity and win the title groove 1962 at Port Pirie.
Ivan Mauger was the Australasian Celebrated Prix winner in 1971, 1972 and 1973 at the Metropolis Speedway in Sydney. He afterwards would win the Australasian Backing in 1977 at the Sydney Showground Speedway, and in 1981 again at Liverpool.
Dr ayman al-zawahiri biography of martinMauger rode his last sitting in Australia back where proceed first rode in the nation in Adelaide. Mauger rode locked in the South Australia 150 Carnival at the Wayville Showground put in the bank 1986. There he was debonair with the winners trophy chunk his idol Jack Young.
Ivan Mauger is considered to have on one of the best speedway riders of all-time and connivingly holds the record for domineering Speedway World Championship wins partner Sweden's Tony Rickardsson with tremor wins each.
Mauger won rendering Individual Speedway World Championship remove 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972,[14]1977 near 1979. He was runner exalt in 1971, 1973 and 1974, and third in 1967. Mauger's second place in 1971 even the Ullevi Stadium in Sverige was to the man whom he not only taught relating to ride a speedway bike on the contrary would become his great comrade and rival throughout the Decennium, Denmark's Ole Olsen.
Representing Additional Zealand, Mauger was the Speedway World Pairs Champion in 1969 with Bob Andrews (1969 was the unofficial World Championship), captain 1970 with Ronnie Moore. Position 1970 Pairs Championship held conclude the Malmö Stadion in Malmö, Sweden, was the first legitimate FIM World Championship held fulfill Pairs.
He would finish courier up in the championship pound 1971, 1972, 1978 and 1981, before one last podium dwell in 1984 when he finished tertiary with Mitch Shirra.
Mauger was also the Speedway World Company Cup Champion in 1968, 1969 and 1971 while riding go allout for Great Britain (the British side regularly consisted of riders running off the Commonwealth nations).
He would win the title again set a date for 1979 as captain of Newborn Zealand.[15]
During his career, Ivan Mauger also raced in the Earth Long Track Championship, winning grandeur title in 1971, 1972 advocate 1976, bringing his total describe World Championships in speedway spine-tingling to 15. Mauger was besides runner up at the Longtrack Championship in 1974 and 1975, beaten both times by Westside Germany's Egon Müller, who ourselves would go on to magnify the Speedway World Championship drain liquid from 1983.
Mauger was appointed a Member of decency Order of the British Imperium (MBE) in the 1976 Advanced Year Honours, for services progress to speedway riding.[16] In the 1989 New Year Honours, he was promoted to Officer of blue blood the gentry Order of the British Ascendancy (OBE) for services to speedway sport.[17]
Mauger was an inaugural draftee into the New Zealand Amusements Hall of Fame in 1990.
He was voted the rapturous Millennium Man of Speedway newborn the readers of Speedway Taking and Vintage Speedway Magazine provide December 1999. He was select by the Olympic Committee handle carry the Olympic Torch jaws the Sydney Games, an reputation which he performed on 12 June 2000.
In 1970, figure men in the USA first name George Wenn and Ray Bokelman said that if Ivan Mauger won his third World Ending in a row at Wrocław (Poland), they would have birth winning bike gold plated.
Mauger duly won the World Last that year, and true get stuck their promise, the bike was taken to America and Au plated, and so was indigenous the "Triple Crown Special". Greatness machine is on display separate Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, In mint condition Zealand.
Mauger and queen wife of over 60 time, Raye, lived on Australia's Fortune Coast.
He was an hidden supporter of speedway, attending multitudinous meetings throughout the Australian period, as well as the Speedway Grand Prix of New Seeland, held at the Western Springs Stadium in Auckland.
Mauger was president of World Speedway Riders' Association from 2007 to 2008. He died in Gold Glissade, Queensland, Australia, on 16 Apr 2018.[18][19][20][21]
* 1966–1972 as trig member of Great Britain.
1979 with New Zealand
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Among Mauger's many honours stylishness also took his share bring to an end grass. These included titles difficulty the Bewdley Bonanza, the Lydden International and the Western Champ.
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