Tommy Price

Tommy Price
Price at the Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam in 1950
Born(1911-12-02)2 December 1911
Cambridge, England
Died26 December 1997 (aged 86)
Perth, Australia
NationalityBritish (English)
Career history
1934Harringay Tigers
1935-1939, 1946-1956Wembley Lions
1936Cardiff White City
1936Nottingham Wasps
Individual honours
1949World Champion
1946British Riders' Champion
Team honours
1946, 1947, 1949, 1950,
1951, 1952, 1953
National League Champion
1948, 1954National Trophy winner
1947British Speedway Cup winner
1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951,
1954
London Cup winner

Thomas Price (2 December 1911 – 26 December 1997) was a motorcycle speedway rider from England.[1] In 1949 he won the first Speedway World Championship to be held after the Second World War.[2] He earned 23 international caps for the England national speedway team.[3]

  1. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). The A-Z of Sport. Little, Brown. p. 527. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  2. ^ Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). A History of the World Speedway Championship. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5
  3. ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 28 December 2023.