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Martin Ashby

English speedway rider (1944–2026)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Henry Martin Ashby was an English international motorcycle speedway rider, who reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in 1968. He also finished third in the Speedway World Pairs Championship in 1969, with Nigel Boocock and was a member of the Great Britain team that won the World Team Cups in 1968 and 1975.

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The public source identifies “Martin Ashby” as english speedway rider (1944–2026). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Martin, Ashby and English.

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This entry incorporates text from “Martin Ashby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.