Ilya Bondarenko (speedway rider)

Ilya Bondarenko
Born (1982-02-16) 16 February 1982 (age 42)
Togliatti, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Career history
Russia
1998, 2020Vladivostok
1999–2009, 2014Togliatti
2010Oktyabrsky
Poland
1998Daugavpils
1999–2014Rivne
1999–2014Opole
Great Britain
2011Leicester Lions
Individual honours
2004, 2009Russian championship bronze
Team honours
2001–2008 (x8)Russian Team Speedway Championship

Ilya Nikolaevich Bondarenko (Russian: Иль́я Никола́евич Бондаре́нко) is a former Russian motorcycle speedway rider.[1] He earned 3 caps for the Russia national speedway team.[2]

Biography

Riding for Leicester Lions, March 2011

Born 16 February 1982 in Togliatti,[3][4] his brother Pavel is also a former speedway rider, and their uncle Anatoly Bondarenko was twice world ice speedway champion.

He was a three-time youth champion of Russia in team and individual competition during 1997, 1998 and 1999 and first represented Russia in 2006.[5]

He was part of the Mega-Lada Togliatti team that dominated the Russian Team Speedway Championship from 2001 until 2008, winning eight consecutive league titles with the club.[6] Bondarenko also spent four years racing in the Team Speedway Polish Championship from 2007 to 2010.[7]

Bondarenko was twice the bronze medalist of the Russian Individual Speedway Championship in 2004 and 2009.[8]

In 2011, he rode for Leicester Lions in the British Premier League, where he spent the 2011 Premier League speedway season with fellow Russian Sergey Darkin.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ilya Bondarenko". WWOS Backup. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Ultimate rider index, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Team Mega-Lada", mega-lada2002.narod.ru, retrieved 2011-03-27
  4. ^ "Iliya Bondarenko Archived March 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine", Leicester Speedway, retrieved 2011-03-27
  5. ^ "Bondarenko Bound for Beaumont Park Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine", Soar Magazine, 6 December 2010, retrieved 2011-03-27
  6. ^ "Russian Team Championship". Speedway History. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  7. ^ "Ilya Bondarenko". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  8. ^ "Individual Russian Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Leicester Lions not rushing Ilya Bondarenko return". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Leicester Lions close in on Ilya Bondarenko replacement". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 September 2024.