Ilya Bondarenko (speedway rider)
Russian motorcycle speedway rider
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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]
Togliatti, Soviet Union
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| Born | 16 February 1982 Togliatti, Soviet Union |
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| Nationality | Russian |
| Career history | |
| Russia | |
| 1998, 2020 | Vladivostok |
| 1999–2009, 2014 | Togliatti |
| 2010 | Oktyabrsky |
| Poland | |
| 1998 | Daugavpils |
| 1999–2014 | Rivne |
| 1999–2014 | Opole |
| Great Britain | |
| 2011 | Leicester Lions |
| Individual honours | |
| 2004, 2009 | Russian championship bronze |
| Team honours | |
| 2001–2008 (x8) | Russian Team Speedway Championship |
Biography
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]