Steve Baker (born 25 June 1963) is a former international speedway rider from Australia.

Speedway career

Baker reached the final of the Speedway World Pairs Championship in the

1987 Speedway World Pairs Championship The 1987 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the eighteenth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia. The championship was won by host Denmark (52 points) who beat England (44 points) and United St ...

. Also in 1987, he finished runner up in the Australian Championship. He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1981 to 1985, riding for various clubs. He was the 1983 European Junior Champion, a competition that non-European riders could enter.

World Final appearances

World Pairs Championship

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

Pardubice Pardubice (; german: Pardubitz) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 89,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the Elbe River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monu ...

, Svítkov Stadion (with

Steve Regeling Steven Grae Regeling (born 2 October 1959) is an Australian former motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the British League for Leicester Lions in the early 1980s and later for Kings Lynn Stars, before riding for several years in the National L ...

) - 7th - 21pts

World Longtrack Championship

Mühldorf 8th 10pts *

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

Scheeßel 17th 2pts

References

1963 births Australian speedway riders Halifax Dukes riders King's Lynn Stars riders Sheffield Tigers riders Living people {{Speedway-stub