Steve Baker (speedway rider)
{{Short description|Australian speedway rider}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox Speedway rider
| name = Steve Baker
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| nationality = Australian
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1963|6|25}}
| birth_place = Adelaide, Australia
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| career1 = Halifax Dukes
| years1 = 1981-1984
| career2 = Sheffield Tigers
| years2 = 1985
| career3 = King's Lynn Stars
| years3 = 1985
| indivyear1 = 1983
| indivhonour1 = European Junior Champion
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| teamyear1 = 1987
| teamhonour1 = World Pairs finalist
}}
Steve Baker (born 25 June 1963) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Australia.{{cite web |url=https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/426/steve-baker|title=Speedway riders, history and results|website=wwosbackup|access-date=11 July 2021}}
Speedway career
Baker came to prominence after winning the 1983 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship, a competition that non-European riders were also allowed to enter.{{cite news |title=Carr fails Under-21 title bid |work=Manchester Evening News |date=25 July 1983 |access-date=9 March 2024|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004985/19830725/039/0039 | via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
Baker reached the final of the Speedway World Pairs Championship in the 1987 Speedway World Pairs Championship.{{cite web|url=http://edinburghspeedway.blogspot.com/2013/04/world-pairs-championship.html|title=World Pairs Championship 1968-1993|website=Edinburgh Speedway|access-date=11 July 2021}} Also in 1987, he finished runner up in the Australian Championship.{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/indmaustralii.php|title=Individual Australian Championship|website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego|access-date=21 January 2023}}
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1981 to 1985, riding for various clubs.{{cite web |url=https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/historyarchive|title=History Archive|website=British Speedway|access-date=11 July 2021}}
World Final appearances
=World Pairs Championship=
- 1987 - {{flagicon|CZE}} Pardubice, Svítkov Stadion (with Steve Regeling) - 7th - 21pts
=World Longtrack Championship=
References
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Category:Australian speedway riders
Category:King's Lynn Stars riders
Category:Australian expatriate speedway riders in England
Category:Sheffield Tigers riders
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