Colin Cook

Colin Cook
Personal information
Nationality	England
Date of birth	29 August 1954 (1954-08-29) (age 57)
Place of birth	Southwold, Suffolk, England
Current club information
Career status	Retired
Career history
Scunthorpe Stags Boston Barracudas Ipswich Witches Leicester Lions Exeter Falcons	1975–1976 1977, 1984 1978–1979 1979–1983 1985–1992
Individual honours
Team honours
National League Best Pairs	1977

Colin Cook (born 29 August 1954) is an English former motorcycle speedway rider who rode for Ipswich Witches and Leicester Lions in the British League, before spending eight successive seasons with the Exeter Falcons.

Biography

Cook was born in Southwold in 1954.^[1] He took up speedway while working as a plant fitter, initially at Mildenhall, before joining Ipswich Witches in the mid-1970s.^[1] He was loaned out to National League team Scunthorpe Stags in 1975, averaging 5.91 in his first season.^[1] After a further season at Scunthorpe he moved on to the Boston Barracudas in 1977.^[2] A much improved season saw his average rise and he also won the National League Best Pairs Championship with Robert Hollingworth.^[2] In 1978 he was recalled by Ipswich and was part of the cup-winning team that year.^[2] Cook transferred to Leicester Lions early in the 1979 season for GB£2,500.^[2] In 1982 he rose to the position of third heat-leader for the Lions, but his time at Leicester was hampered by injuries.^[2] After the Lions closed down in 1983, Cook moved back to Boston in 1984, before spending the last eight years of his career with the Exeter Falcons, retiring at the end of the 1992 season.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Oakes, Peter & Mauger, Ivan (1976) Who's Who of World Speedway, Studio Publications, ISBN 0-904584-04-6
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Jones, Alan (2010) Speedway in Leicester: The Lions Roar, Automedia, p. 162
3. ^ Oakes, Peter (1993) 1993 Speedway Yearbook, Front Page Books, ISBN 0-948882-16-6, p. 122-4

Persondata
Name	Cook, Colin
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Date of birth	29 August 1954
Place of birth	Southwold, Suffolk, England
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