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Nationality | South African | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia | 10 April 1951||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hugh Neville "Kork" Ballington (born 10 April 1951) is a South African former professional motorcycle racer.[1] He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1976 to 1982, most prominently as a member of the Kawasaki factory racing team with whom he won four FIM road racing world championships.[2] Ballington was inducted into the MotoGP Legends Hall of Fame in 2018.[3]