Barry Steven Frank Sheene MBE (11th September 1950 - 10th March 2003) was a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who remained as Britain's last champion in 1977 until Danny Kent in 2015. After a racing career stretching from 1968 to 1984 he retired from competition and relocated to Australia, working as a motorsport commentator and property developer. In July 2002, at the age of 51, Sheene was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus and stomach. He died peacefully surrounded by his family at a hospital on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2003, aged 52, having suffered from the condition for eight months.

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