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Tim Hunt (speedway rider)

speedway rider

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ107659716 ↗
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Timothy John Hunt (born 23 May 1960) is a former motorcycle speedway from England. He earned one international cap for the England national speedway team.

Speedway career

Hunt rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1978–1985, riding for various clubs.

During the 1978 National League season, Hunt was part of the Peterborough team that won the Fours championship. The following season in 1979, he signed for Canterbury Crusaders.

After leaving Ipswich Witches in 1981, Hunt joined Reading Racers, where he spent four seasons. Hunt reached the final of the British Speedway Championship in 1985.

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The public source identifies “Tim Hunt (speedway rider)” as speedway rider. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hunt, speedway and rider.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1978, 1985, 1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hunt, speedway and rider providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107659716. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1978, 1985 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tim Hunt (speedway rider)” 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.