1. Joe Screen earned 37 international caps for the England national speedway team and 7 caps for the Great Britain team.
14 Facts About Joe Screen
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Joe Screen began riding motorcycles at the age of four, and gained his early experience on a 50cc motocross bike.
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Joe Screen left home aged just 16 and would be riding at the highest level aged 17.
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Joe Screen started his speedway career with the Belle Vue Aces in 1989 in the top tier of British League racing.
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Joe Screen soon became a top rider and made his debut for the England team in 1991.
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Joe Screen was still eligible for the championship because he was 20 years of age.
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Joe Screen won his first of two British Speedway Championships in 1996.
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Joe Screen rode in the Speedway Grand Prix series between 1996 until 2001 and as a wild card in the British Grand Prix in 2002, appearing in 21 Grands Prix and scoring a total of 159 points.
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Joe Screen was given a lifeline with a short-term deal with Wolverhampton Wolves for 2010, until Adam Skornicki returned from injury.
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Joe Screen's spell with Wolves saw his average drop sufficiently to fit into the Glasgow Tigers team, which he joined in May 2010, signing as a club asset for 2011, when he captained Glasgow to win both the Premier League Championship and the Premier League Pairs.
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Joe Screen rode for Birmingham Brummies in the Elite League in 2011 and 2012 in a doubling-up capacity.
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Joe Screen rode in the Polish leagues from 1992 to 2007 for various clubs in the Team Speedway Polish Championship.
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Joe Screen has been involved in coaching young speedway riders and ran an academy at Buxton.
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Joe Screen announced in June 2013 that he would be retiring from racing at the end of the season after 25 years in British league speedway, but a hand injury sustained in August brought his season to a premature end.