The SGB Championship Riders' Championship is an annual
motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...
contest between the top riders (or two riders) with the highest
average points total from each club competing in the
SGB Championship
The Speedway Great Britain (SGB) Championship is the second division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). ...
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It determines British speedway's
second tier riders champion.
Format
The same format of Championship applies for the tier one and tier three leagues, that of the
SGB Premiership Riders' Individual Championship (tier one) and
National League Riders' Championship
The National League Riders' Championship is an annual motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti ...
(tier three).
History
The competition replaced the
Premier League Riders Championship
The Premier League Riders Championship was a contest between the top riders with the highest average points total from each club competing in the Premier League in the United Kingdom.
History
The championship was inaugurated in 1995, the same ye ...
in 2017.
Winners
See also
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List of United Kingdom Speedway League Riders' champions
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Speedway in the United Kingdom
The sport of speedway in the United Kingdom has changed little since the first meetings in the 1920s. It has three domestic leagues, its own Speedway Grand Prix, and an annual entry into the Speedway World Cup / Speedway of Nations.
History
S ...
References
{{United Kingdom Speedway Seasons
Speedway competitions in the United Kingdom