John Boulger (born 18 June 1945 in
Adelaide
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,
South Australia
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) is a former international
motorcycle speedway
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rider. After he retired from riding Solos in the early 1980s, Boulger raced somewhat successfully in
Speedcars (Midgets) from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s. Boulger won a record nine
South Australian Championships (a record jointly held with
1951
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1952
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World Champion
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Jack Young) as well as two
Australian Solo Championships during his career.
As part of the
Australian team, John Boulger won one World Championship during his career, this being the
1976 World Team Cup held at the
White City Stadium
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in
London
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,
England
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. Boulger had the honour of captaining the team to Australia's first
Speedway World Team Cup
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Format
From 1960 until 1985 each team consisted of four riders ...
victory. It was Australia's first World title in any speedway competition since Young's World Championship win in 1952.
Career summary
Australia
John Boulger, whose father was a mechanic for international solo star Merv Harding, started his racing career in 1965 racing
scrambles
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as a sidecar passenger with friend Brenton Hanks (which only lasted a year) before moving into speedway. His first race was at the
Broken Hill Speedway
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in October 1966 where he lost an oil tank and seized the engine in his first meeting. He then got his break when he tagged along with leading Adelaide
sidecar
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rider Len Bowes to the
Northern Park Raceway in
Melbourne
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. As a favour to Bowes, the promoter let Boulger ride just expecting him to make up the numbers, but everyone received a shock when Boulger broke the track record in his first ride.
His home track was the famed,
Rowley Park Speedway
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in Adelaide and he made his debut there on 29 October 1966.
["Personal Profile: John Boulger", '']Speedway Post
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'', volume 5, no. 12, July 1969, p. 16-17 He quickly went from promising rookie to star rider within a couple of seasons, and would become the best South Australian rider of his generation, and regarded as one of the states best ever riders alongside Jack Young.
After finishing second to
Sydney
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's
Jim Airey
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is a former Australian international motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the 1971 World Final in Göteborg, Sweden and was a member of the Great Britain team that won the ...
at the
Sydney Showground in 1970, Boulger won his first Australian Solo Championship in 1971 at
Perth
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's ⅓ mile ()
Claremont Speedway
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after a bold passing move on local favourite
Chum Taylor in the last corner of the deciding heat to give him a 15-point maximum.
["A Fitting Climax to John Boulger's Year", '']Motor Cycle News
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Speedway Extra 1971'', p. 12 He finished in third place at Rowley Park in 1972 behind Airey and
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reigning World Champion Ole Olsen, and won his last title in 1973 at the Sydney Showground with a 15-point maximum, leaving defending champion and "King of the Royale" Airey languishing in 4th place. Boulger then finished the 1974 championship at the
Brisbane Exhibition Ground
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in 2nd place behind local rider Steve Reinke to cap a four-year run where he never finished the Australian title off the podium. He would place once more finishing 3rd in 1979 at the
Olympic Park Speedway
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in
Mildura
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behind local favourites
Phil Crump
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and
Danny Kennedy. Boulger's win in 1973 was the last time a South Australian rider would win the national title until
Ryan Sullivan
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won in 2004.
During the 1970s Boulger had a virtual stranglehold on the
South Australian Solo Championship. He won his first title in 1970 before winning a record seven in a row between 1972 and 1978, all held at Rowley Park Speedway. He would win his ninth and last SA Championship at the new,
Speedway Park
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It was built in 1946 by Eddie Bland on land belonging to the family farm and later came to be known as Jacksonville Speedway after it was sold in 1954.
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in 1982. Boulger's ninth SA title saw him equal the record of nine wins by Jack Young. As of 2016, this record still stands, with the next best record being five wins by
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Troy Batchelor
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Career
Australia
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Troy Batchelor enjoyed his first success when he won the 2001 Queensland and New South Wales Under-16 championships a ...
. Boulger narrowly missed equaling Young's record in 1981 when he finished second in the championship behind
Tony Boyle at Speedway Park. Boulger was undefeated in his first three rides, and was leading his fourth race when his front forks broke forcing him to crash and not finish the race.
John Boulger won the inaugural
Australasian Championship at the
Western Springs Stadium
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in
Auckland
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,
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in
1976
Events January
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* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
defeating
Billy Sanders
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, Phil Crump and multiple World Champion
Ivan Mauger
Ivan Gerald Mauger (4 October 1939 – 16 April 2018) was a New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider. He won a record six Speedway World Championship, World Championships (Finals), a feat equalled only with the inclusion of the Speedway GP Champi ...
(the Australasian Final was introduced as a World Championship qualifying round for Australian and New Zealand riders). He then went on to finish in a 3-way tie for first place in
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
at the Sydney Showground with Mauger and Crump, before eventually finishing third after a runoff. Later in 1982 he won the
Australian Long Track Championship
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in the South Australian town of
Morgan in 1982.
Boulger retired from riding in 1984 and decided to stay in speedway, first by teaching young riders the art of racing a Solo motorbike, with many of his protégé's racing at the
Sidewinders Junior Speedway in Adelaide which opened in 1978. Boulger has been a long time supporter of Sidewinders and during the early-mid 1980s was a mentor to a number of younger riders including
Steve Baker,
Mark Fiora
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,
Shane Parker,
Craig Hodgson
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Speedway career
Hodgson won the bronze medal at the Australian National Championships. The following year in 1989 he became the Australian J ...
and
Shane Bowes
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, the son of Boulger's long time friend and the 1968
Australian Sidecar Champion Len Bowes.
In 1985 he started racing
Sprintcars
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before moving on to drive Speedcars with some success, including winning the prestigious "Harry Neale Memorial" at Speedway Park in 1987. Boulger would race for a few more seasons before retiring from the sport in the mid-1990s to concentrate on driving his
taxi
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.
In 2011, John Boulger was inducted into the
Australian Speedway Hall of Fame
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In 2006 Speedway Australia formed the National Speedway Induction Committee (NSIC) consisting of competitors, promoters, medi ...
.
On 29 November 2014, John Boulger was inducted into the Motorcycling South Australia Hall of Fame.
England
John Boulger arrived in England in 1967 to ride for the
Long Eaton Archers
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, scoring a paid 12 point maximum in just his third match against
Exeter
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. He was recommended to the Long Eaton management by British star
Ray Wilson who had been on the lookout for Australian talent when he rode in Adelaide in 1967 and picked Boulger as a future star. Boulger appeared in 33 league matches during 1967 for Long Eaton, finishing with a 5.95 points average.
In 1968, Long Eaton management moved the team to
Leicester
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where they would become the
Leicester Lions
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and Boulger remained for six seasons, helping the Lions to second place in the
1971 *
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British League
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, and gradually improving his average to 9.46 by 1972. In 1973 he replaced Wilson as captain of the Lions and averaged 10.25 points to place 7th in the Riders' Championship (Wilson, that years
British Champion, would finish second in the Riders' Championship behind multiple World Champion
Ivan Mauger
Ivan Gerald Mauger (4 October 1939 – 16 April 2018) was a New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider. He won a record six Speedway World Championship, World Championships (Finals), a feat equalled only with the inclusion of the Speedway GP Champi ...
). In 1974 Boulger moved to ride for
Cradley United where he remained until 1976 before returning to Leicester in 1977. He would remain with the Lions until 1979 when he retired from British League racing in order to spend more time with his family and on his business interests in Adelaide.
[Jones, Alan (2010) ''Speedway in Leicester: The Lions Roar'', Automedia, p.159-160]
International
Boulger had the honor of captaining the victorious
Australian
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team at the
1976 Speedway World Team Cup
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The final took place at the White City Stadium in London. Australia became only the fourth country to win the title. Th ...
held at
London
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's
White City Stadium
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. He also partnered
Phil Crump
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in the
1974 World Pairs final at
Hyde Road in
Manchester
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, finishing in second place behind the
Swedish
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pairing of
1974 World Champion Anders Michanek
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Career
Michanek had a very successful career riding in the B ...
, and his partner
Sören Sjösten
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Krylbo, Sweden, died 1999) was a motorcycle speedway rider. He won the world pairs championship in 1974 with Anders Michanek and became world team champion three times representing Sweden, ...
. Boulger and Crump would finish 5th in the
1975 World Pairs final at the
Olympic Stadium
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in
Wrocław
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,
Poland
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. 1975 would prove to be Boulger's last World Pairs Final appearance.
John Boulger qualified for two
World Final's during his career. He finished 13th with 6 points in
1973
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* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
at the
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in
Chorzów
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(
Katowice
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), Poland in front of the largest speedway attendance in history, an estimated 130,000 where he was the only Australian to qualify and other than runner-up Ivan Mauger was the highest placed
Commonwealth
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rider alongside English whiz-kid
Peter Collins who also finished with 6 points (Collins would go on to win the World Championship at the same venue in
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
). Boulger also rode in the
1977 World Final at the
Ullevi Stadium
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in
Göteborg
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,
Sweden
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, where on a wet track he finished 12th with 5 points from his 5 rides. The only other Australian in the field was Sydney's Billy Sanders who finished 9th with 7 points.
Boulger also rode for Australia in numerous test matches at home and overseas, including captaining the team on several occasions.
World Final Appearances
Individual World Championship
*
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
–
Chorzów
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,
Silesian Stadium Silesian as an adjective can mean anything from or related to Silesia. As a noun, it refers to an article, item, or person of or from Silesia.
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– 13th – 6pts
*
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
–
Göteborg
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,
Ullevi
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– 12th – 5pts
World Pairs Championship
*
1974
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-
Manchester
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,
Hyde Road (with
Phil Crump
Philip John Crump (born 9 February 1952) in Mildura, Victoria is a retired Australian Motorcycle speedway riderLawson,K (2018) “Riders, Teams and Stadiums”. who attained 3rd place in the 1976 World Championship. He also won the 1976 Spe ...
) - 2nd - 23pts (9)
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
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-
Wrocław
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,
Olympic Stadium
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(with
Phil Crump
Philip John Crump (born 9 February 1952) in Mildura, Victoria is a retired Australian Motorcycle speedway riderLawson,K (2018) “Riders, Teams and Stadiums”. who attained 3rd place in the 1976 World Championship. He also won the 1976 Spe ...
) - 5th - 19pts (9)
World Team Cup
*
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
-
London
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,
White City Stadium
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(with
Phil Crump
Philip John Crump (born 9 February 1952) in Mildura, Victoria is a retired Australian Motorcycle speedway riderLawson,K (2018) “Riders, Teams and Stadiums”. who attained 3rd place in the 1976 World Championship. He also won the 1976 Spe ...
/
Phil Herne
Philip Edwin Herne (born 27 March 1955)Oakes, Peter (1982) ''1982 Speedway Yearbook'', Studio Publications, , p. 173 is an Australian former motorcycle speedway rider who won the World Team Cup in 1976.
Biography
Born in Ballina, New South W ...
/
Billy Sanders
William Robert Sanders (9 September 1955 – 23 April 1985Oakes, P (1982). ''Daily Mirror 1982 Speedway Yearbook''. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. ) was an Australian international Speedway rider who won six Australian Championships and w ...
/
Garry Middleton
Garry David Middleton (born 19 July 1948 Corowa, New South Wales - 23 November 1994) was an Australian motorcycle speedway rider.
Career
He first came to Britain in 1967 a rode for a short time with the Belle Vue Aces and the King's Lynn Sta ...
) - Winner - 31pts (6)
References
External links
www.leicester-speedway.co.uk
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1945 births
Living people
Australian speedway riders
Cradley Heathens riders
Leicester Lions riders
Long Eaton Archers riders
Sportspeople from Adelaide
Sportsmen from South Australia