Background
Simmons was born in Tonbridge, Kent.
Simmons was born in Tonbridge, Kent.
After starting in second-half races at New Cross, he made his Provincial League debut at Hackney Hawks in 1963 aged seventeen but was unable to break into the Hackney team regularly so moved to the newly re-opened West Ham Hammers for the 1964 season. In 1968 he moved to the King"s Lynn Stars and stayed there for the next seven seasons. He was consistently at the top of the Stars averages and scored over 2112 points for the club
Simmons signed for the Poole Pirates in 1975 from King"s Lynn.
Simmons topped the Pirates averages for the next six years and he came to be affectionately known by the Poole fans as "Super Simmo". In 1979 the Pirates were taken over by new owners and Simmons became unsettled, asking for a transfer in 1980.
At a pairs event at Poole that year, Simmons was accused by the Poole management of not trying and he was subsequently sacked by the club He moved to Wimbledon in 1981, where he spent four seasons and moved to the Swindon Robins for one season in 1985.
Simmons signed for former club Hackey, now renamed Hackney Kestrels, in 1986 for two years before he suffered a bad shoulder injury.
He then made a couple of short come-backs at Arena Essex and King"s Lynn. Malcolm captained England and Great Britain at full international level He signed as a rider for Mildenhall in 2001 to ride occasionally in the Conference League, aged 56.
Individual World Championship
1975 - London, Wembley Stadium - 7th - 10pts
1976 - Chorzów, Silesian Stadium - 2nd - 13pts
1978 - London, Wembley Stadium - 6th - 10pts
World Pairs Championship
World Team Cup
* 1973 for Great Britain.
All others for England.