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Welcome to the Official Website of International
Speedway Rider Glenn Cunningham
Looking back over Glenn's career, he began his
racing on the grass as a schoolboy of seven years old. He
won a few championships even at that tender age, before moving
on to speedway. The Bristol-born rider signed up for Oxford
on his 16th birthday (10 June 1991) and rode in his first
match the week after. He remained at Oxford for two seasons
before moving on to Swindon in 1993 with Peter Ansell as promoter.
Swindon had just dropped down to the Second Division, (known
as the National League), and he felt he had a good season,
and was subsequently offered a contract for 1994, and at that
point Peter also paid for Glenn to become his asset. With
Martin Yeates and Peter Toogood at the helm, 1995 also saw
more progress but 1996 was a bad year for Glenn due to returning
from an Australian trip with a bug, which affected his whole
season. After making it up to second string he dropped back
to reserve, but 1997 saw a big change in fortune.
"I made the switch to Reading in 1997 and I did indeed
have a better year. We won the League plus I came second in
the Premier League Riders Championship," he said.
Then in 1998 Glenn went even better with Peterborough,
where Peter Oakes was the team manager. This year was definitely
the best of "Cunny's" career so far. "We not
only won the League with me as their number one rider but
I also won the Pairs (with Brett Woodifield), the Fours, and
I then rode into the history books as the Premier League Riders
Champion! From there I progressed to the Overseas Final, finally
making it to the Intercontinental Final. I will never forget
1998!"
Glenn had another stint at Swindon in 1999
followed by a couple of torrid seasons for Peterborough and
Newport, before joining Somerset in 2002, where he has become
a huge favourite with the crowd. It was Somerset where he
held his testimonial meeting in 2004.
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