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{{Infobox Speedway rider
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| ridername= Graham Warren
| nationality = {{flagicon|Australia}} Australia
| dateofbirth = 1926
| dateofdeath = 2005
| cityofbirth = [[Suva]]
| countryofbirth = [[Fiji]]
| retired = Retired
| career = [[Birmingham Brummies]]<br />[[Coventry Bees]]<br />[[Wolverhampton Wolves]]
| years = 1948-1953, 1955<br />1959<br />1961-1964
| indivhonour = None
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”’Graham Warren”’ (born 1926 in [[Suva]], [[Fiji]] – died 2005)<ref name=bl>Buck, B (2007) ”Brummies Legends”, Pendragon Books. ISBN 0-9541671-2-0</ref> was an [[Australia national speedway team|Australian]] international [[motorcycle speedway|speedway]] rider who finished third in the [[1950 Individual Speedway World Championship|1950 Speedway World Championship]] final.<ref name=hsc>Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). ”A History of the World Speedway Championship”. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5</ref>

==Career==
Warren arrived in the UK in March 1948 and signed up with the [[Birmingham Brummies]] in the [[Speedway National League Division Two|National League Division Two]]. The Brummies finished second and were promoted to [[Speedway National League|National League Division One]] for the 1949 season. In sixty meetings that season, Warren was unbeaten by an opponent in twenty five of them and averaged almost eleven points a match. In the May of 1948, just two months after arriving in the UK for a trial with Birmingham, Warren was selected to ride for [[Australia national speedway team|Australia]]. By 1949 he was the captain of his country. In 1949, despite being in a tougher division he still scored almost ten points a meeting and he qualified for his first World Final.

In 1950 Warren qualified again finished in third place. However in early 1951, a severe accident at a meeting in New Zealand left Warren with a triple skull fracture and his career was never to hit the heights of 1950 again.

==World Final Appearances==
* [[1949 Individual Speedway World Championship|1949]] – {{Flag|GBR}} [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] – 12th – 5pts
* [[1950 Individual Speedway World Championship|1950]] – {{Flag|GBR}} [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] – 3rd – 12pts
* [[1952 Individual Speedway World Championship|1952]] – {{Flag|GBR}} [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] – 13th – 5pts
* [[1953 Individual Speedway World Championship|1953]] – {{Flag|GBR}} [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] – 12th – 5pts<ref name=hsc>Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). ”A History of the World Speedway Championship”. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5</ref>

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[[Category:Coventry Bees riders]]
[[Category:Wolverhampton Wolves riders]]

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