Adam Roynon
| Adam Roynon | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nationality |  England | |
| Date of birth | 30 August 1988 | |
| Place of birth | Barrow, England | |
| Website | www | |
| Current club information | ||
| British league | Coventry Bees/ Sheffield Tigers | |
| Career history | ||
| Swindon Sprockets Peterborough Pumas Mildenhall Fen Tigers Boston Barracudas Glasgow Tigers Rye House Rockets Birmingham Brummies Ostrów Wlkp. (POL) Workington Comets Stoke Potters King's Lynn Stars Dudley Heathens Redcar Bears Leicester Lions Coventry Bees Sheffield Tigers |
2003 2004 2004-2005 2005 2006 2006-2007 2008 2008 2010, 2012 2010 2010 2011–2012 2011 2013 2012-2013 2013 | |
| Individual honours | ||
| Conference Riders Champion | 2006 | |
| Team honours | ||
| Premier League Champion Conference League Champion Conference Trophy Winner Conference League KO Cup Premier League Pairs |
2007 2004 2004 2004 2012 | |
Adam Wayne Roynon (born 30 August 1988, in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria)[1] is a British motorcycle speedway rider, who in 2013 rode for Leicester Lions in the Premier League and Coventry Bees in the Elite League. His father, Chris Roynon, was a speedway rider and promoter for the Barrow Blackhawks.
Career
Roynon won three trophies in his first full season of Conference League racing, winning the League Championship, the Conference Trophy and the Knockout Cup. He won the Premier League Championship with the Rye House Rockets in 2007 and finished 3rd in the Indoor speedway event at Brighton. Roynon is contracted to Elite League team the Coventry Bees, but declined a team place there for 2008.
On 6 March 2009, Roynon crashed while practising with the Great Britain squad at the Norfolk Arena, King's Lynn and suffered a blood clot to his brain and a broken neck (C2 vertebra). His survival chances were initially assessed as 50/50,[2] but his recovery "amazed" doctors who allowed him to leave hospital eleven days later wearing a halo brace.[3] On 30 April 2009 his father announced that halo brace/hyperbaric therapy had been unsuccessful and Roynon would require surgery to stabilise his broken neck, further delaying his return to riding.[4]
He returned in 2010 with Workington Comets but another injury cut short his time there.[5] He rode for Stoke Potters later that season, but suffered a broken ankle. After recovering, he was signed by King's Lynn Stars to replace Joe Haines.[5] In 2011 he was loaned out to Redcar Bears, also riding for Dudley Heathens in the National League, but a broken femur in April saw him again out of action until July.[5] He signed to ride for Workington Comets and Dudley Heathens in 2012. He broke his leg in the National League playoff final. He signed for Leicester Lions for the 2013 Premier League season and doubled-up in the Elite League with Coventry Bees. He suffered serious concussion in crash in his first match of the season for Coventry, leading to another enforced break from racing. After returning from injury he signed for Sheffield Tigers and in JUly was reinstated to the Coventry team.[6]
Honours
References
- ↑ Oakes, P.(2004). British Speedway Who's Who. ISBN 0-948882-81-6
- ↑ "Horror crash Bees rider out of coma". Coventry Telegraph. 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
- ↑ "Workington rider Roynon home after amazing recovery". News & Star. 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
- ↑ "BIKE ACE SUFFERS INJURY SETBACK". North West Evening Mail. 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "2011 Rider Index", speedwaygb.co, retrieved 2011-11-27
- ↑ "Roynon Back for Bees", speedwaygb.co, 3 July 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2013
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