Claim: Leigh Lanham won at the 1997 British Under 21 Championship and signed to ride for Coventry Bees in the Elite League (United Kingdom's top division of speedway league).
Evidence: Leigh Stefan Lanham (born 15 August 1977 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is a speedway rider in the United Kingdom. Son of former rider Mike, Lanham won the British Under 21 Championship in 1997. In December 2011 he signed to ride for Coventry Bees in the Elite League as a double-up rider, sharing a team place with Aaron Summers. The Elite League was the top division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA).