Sheene

/ ʃiːn /

noun

1. SheeneBarry (Stephen Frank)19502003MBritishSPORT AND GAMES: racing motorcyclist Barry ( Stephen Frank ). 1950–2003, British racing motorcyclist: 500 cc. world champion (1976, 1977)

Example Sentences

Doohan, who started riding dirt bikes at the age of nine, was working as a swimming pool concreter and hanging out with Britain’s twice world champion Barry Sheene on the Gold Coast when a breakout season in Superbikes caught the eye of Honda.

From Reuters

“James Hunt died as a 40-year-old of a heart attack, Barry Sheene died at 52 years old of cancer,” he said of two of Britain’s great champions from the worlds of Formula One and motorcycling.

From Reuters

Crutchlow, celebrating a third career MotoGP win and Honda’s 750th grand prix success, is the first Briton to lead the top category since the late Barry Sheene in 1979.

From Reuters

The LCR Honda rider in August became the first Briton in 35 years, and first since the late and great world champion Barry Sheene, to win in the top category of grand prix motorcycling.

From Reuters

His team-mate, Lewis Hamilton, became the first driver to win 10 races in the season without also taking the championship, while in the motorcycle world Cal Crutchlow made himself the first Brit to win a top-tier race since Barry Sheene, and then did it again – both times on a second-tier machine.

From The Guardian