CAPTAIN Jason Doyle has been crowned the Swindon Advertiser's 2016 Robins Rider of the Year after a landslide victory in our end-of-season poll.

The Australian ace, who led the Robins from the front in the 2016 Elite League campaign, topped the vote with a whopping 89 per cent of all votes cast via post and email from readers.

Rohan Tungate finished second, tallying five per cent, with Josh Grajczonek third with two per cent.

Doyle skippered a young Robins septet with aplomb throughout the summer campaign, although Swindon came up just short in their bid to reach the Elite League play-offs.

Averaging 10.03, he won 77 of the 126 races he contested in Robins colours, finishing out of the points only five times and succeeds Poland's Grzegorz Zengota, who scooped last season's accolade, as the winner of the popular annual award.

The winner was announced at the Robins' end-of-season presentation night this evening, although Doyle was unable to receive his prize personally.

The Grand Prix ace, who celebrated his 31st birthday last week, is still in Torun, Poland, recovering from the lung, shoulder and elbow injuries he sustained in a crash during the penultimate Grand Prix of the season in the country earlier this month.

The crash robbed him of the chance of winning a first world title at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne next weekend, the Swindon ace having won the previous three events in Sweden, Germany and Poland to lie second in the standings.

However, Doyle is expected to have a further shoulder operation and is unable to fly for at least three months.

Voting in this year's poll also offered the chance to win a 2017 Swindon Robins season ticket.

The winner of that prize was Ian French, from Swindon.