{{Short description|British motorcycle speedway rider}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Use British English|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox Speedway rider | name= Doug Wyer | image = Doug Wyer.jpg | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1947|8|16}} | death_date = | birth_place = Nottingham, England
| years1 = 1969 | career1 = Doncaster Stallions | years2 = 1969–1980 | career2 = Sheffield Tigers | years3 = 1970–1971 | career3 = Berwick Bandits | years4 = 1981–1985 | career4 = Halifax Dukes | years5 = 1985 | career5 = Birmingham Brummies | years6 = 1986–1988 | career6 = Edinburgh Monarchs | indivyear1 = 1976, 1979 | indivhonour1 = Northern Riders' champion | indivyear2 = 1980 | indivhonour2 = South Australian Champion | indivhonour3 = Skol Northern Masters | indivyear3 = 1977 | teamyear1 = 1974 | teamhonour1 = British League KO Cup winner | teamyear2 = 1986 | teamhonour2 = National League Pairs Champion | teamyear3 = 1973, 1974, 1979 | teamhonour3 = Northern Trophy }}
'''Douglas Wyer''' (born 16 August 1947 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England)<ref name="ww76">{{cite book | last = Oakes | first = Peter |author2=Mauger, Ivan OBE, MBE |authorlink2=Ivan Mauger | title = Who's Who of World Speedway | publisher = Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd | year = 1976 | isbn = 0-904584-04-6 }}</ref> is a former international motorcycle speedway rider<ref>Lawson, K (2018) “Riders, Teams and Stadiums”. {{ISBN|978-0-244-72538-9}}</ref> who reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in 1976. He earned 46 international caps for the England national speedway team and 14 caps for the Great Britain team.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Ultimate_Index_1929-2022.pdf |title=ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022 |website=British Speedway |access-date=16 June 2023}}</ref>
== Career == After initially riding for Doncaster Stallions he was loaned out to Berwick Bandits by his parent club Sheffield Tigers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000717/19711111/131/0011 |title=Sheffield hold the key to future of Doug Wyer |website=Berwick Advertiser |date=11 November 1971 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=11 October 2024 }}</ref> Wyer rode for Young Lions against Great Britain on 6 April 1976 at Leicester Stadium and remained a Sheffield rider until 1980.
In 1980, Wyer won the South Australian Championship at the then new Speedway Park in Adelaide. The {{convert|430|m|yd}} long Speedway Park was a different track than Wyer was used to as its surface is clay rather than the dirt/shale track he rode in at home.
Wyer won the National League Pairs, partnering Les Collins for the Edinburgh Monarchs, during the 1986 National League season.<ref>{{cite news |title=Speedway Pairs Out |work=Newcastle Journal |date=14 July 1986 |access-date=25 May 2023 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19860714/191/0014 | via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== World Final Appearances == * 1976 - {{Flagicon|POL}} Chorzów, Silesian Stadium - 7th - 8 pts<ref>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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