end of 2008. The team was inactive pending the building of a new stadium, which it was hoped to complete in 2012. The team reformed in 2016 joining the newly formed Southern Developmental League the following year. The team currently races in Swindon awaiting a new stadium in Reading to be built to return to the town in. Marathon The Reading Half Marathon is held on the streets of Reading in March of each year, with 16,000 competitors from elite to fun runners. It was first run in 1983 and took place in every subsequent year except 2001, when it was cancelled because of concerns over that year's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Tennis The Berkshire Championships were founded in Reading from 1903, through till 1970 except for the years 1936 to 1938 when they were held in Wallingford and Cookham in 1971 when the tournament ended. Triathlon The British Triathlon Association was formed at the town's former Mall health club on 11 December 1982. Britain's first-ever triathlon took place just outside Reading at Kirtons's Farm in Pingewood in 1983 and was revived in 1994 and 95. Thames Valley Triathletes, based in the town, is Britain's oldest triathlon club, having its origins in the 1984 event at nearby Heckfield, when a relay team raced under the name Reading Triathlon Club. Other sports The Hexagon theatre was home to snooker's Grand Prix tournament, one of the sport's "Big Four", from 1984 to 94. The town hosts Australian rules football team Reading Kangaroos and American football team Berkshire Renegades. Reading-born Richard Burns became the first Englishman to win the World Rally Championship, in 2001. Reading has previously been the town in which two former Formula One teams, Canadian constructor Walter Wolf Racing (from 1977–1979) and Brazilian constructor Fittipaldi Automotive (from 1977–1982), based their headquarters. Former Formula One driver Innes Ireland (who is best known for racing for Team Lotus from 1959–1961, as well as driving for British Racing Partnership and BRM between 1962 and 1966), lived in Reading until he succumbed to cancer at the age of 63 in 1993. References