The 1931 Star Riders' Championship was the third edition of the
speedway Star Riders' Championship. The competition was decided on a
knockout
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, a ...
basis over nine heats.
[Bamford, R. & Stallworthy, D. (2003) ''Speedway – The Pre War Years'', Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ]
Final
*18 September 1931
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Wembley,
England
Heat details
Heat 1 : Watson, Tauser, Shepherd, Bishop
Heat 2 : Parker, Rickman, Jackson, Stewart
Heat 3 : Warwick, Edmonds (Fell), Hastings (Fell), Wilkinson (Ret)
Heat 4 : Croombs, Huxley, Kendrick, Strecker
Heat 5 : Arthur, Spinks, Patrick, Johnson
Semi-final 1 : Huxley, Rickman, Watson
Semi-final 2 : Tauser, Arthur
Semi-final 3 : Parker, Croombs
Final : Tauser, Huxley, Croombs, Parker (Exc)
References
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
Speedway
Star Riders' Championship
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