Jack Holder

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Jack Holder
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Born (1996-03-23) 23 March 1996 (age 28)
Appin, New South Wales, Australia
Career history
Great Britain
2015–2016 Plymouth
2017 Peterborough
2017, 2019 Poole
2018 Somerset
2020–2025 Sheffield
Poland
2018–2022 Toruń
2020 Gorzów
2023–2024 Lublin
Sweden
2019, 2023 Västervik
Speedway Grand Prix statistics
SGP Number25
Starts33
Finalist8 times
Winner1 times
Individual honours
2023 Australian Championship
2016 Australian Under-21 Champion
Team honours
2022 2022 Speedway of Nations
2023British champions
2016 Fours Champions
2018, 2024British KO Cup
2022 UK League Cup
2023, 2024Polish champions

Jack Holder (born 23 March 1996) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider. [1] Jack is a World team champion and his brother Chris Holder is a former World individual champion. [2]

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Career

A successful rider in Australia, he came to England and first rode for Plymouth Devils in 2015. [3] He was part of the Plymouth team that won the Premier League Four-Team Championship, which was held on 23 and 24 July 2016, at the East of England Arena. [4]

After two seasons, he rode for both Peterborough Panthers and Poole Pirates in 2017, helping Poole to win the Elite Shield. [5]

Jack Holder finished in sixth place at the 2017 Speedway Under-21 World Championship [6] and 4th in the Jason Crump Classic Cup - considered a warm-up for the Australian Senior Solo Championship. The Boxing Day event (2018) was held in front of more than 2,500 fans and he rode through to the B Final where he beat Jye Etheridge, Mason Campton and Erik Riss and went through to the A Final. However, he finished at the back, while the race was won by older brother Chris Holder. [7] In 2018, he helped Somerset Rebels win the KO Cup.

In 2019, he started the season as number 1 for Poole Pirates but had a shaky start, and his friend and co-rider Brady Kurtz asked fans to be patient while he settled in. “I am sure Jack’s copped enough off social media and everything. He doesn’t need me asking him about it as well. Everyone just needs to let him get on with it – he’s just a kid, let him race his bike!"

In 2021 and 2022, he rode for the Sheffield Tigers in the SGB Premiership 2021 and SGB Premiership 2022. [8] He helped Sheffield win the 2022 League cup and reach the Play off final. [9]

Also in 2022, he competed in every round of the 2022 Speedway Grand Prix and scored 12 points at the British Grand Prix, he eventually finished in 12th place during the 2022 Speedway World Championship, after securing 67 points. He qualified for the 2023 Speedway Grand Prix by virtue of finishing 3rd in the 2023 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification. [10] However, the highlight of his season was winning the 2022 Speedway of Nations for Australia with Max Fricke. [11] [12] In December, he won his fifth successive New South Wales Individual Speedway Championship. [13]

In January 2023, Holder won the Australian Championship for the first time. [14] In 2023, he was part of the Australian team that finished fourth in the 2023 Speedway World Cup final. [15] He completed a career best finish of fourth in the 2023 Speedway Grand Prix but would have finished even higher had it not been for a hand injury suffered during the Swedish round, which forced him to sit out the Latvian round. [16] On the domestic front he helped Sheffield win the 2023 league title [17]

After re-signing for Sheffield for 2024 [18] he recorded the first Grand Prix win of his career, winning the opening round in Croatia. [19] In 2024, he also helped Australia secure a silver medal at the 2024 Speedway of Nations in Manchester [20] and won the Knockout Cup with Sheffield. [21] Also in 2024, he helped Lublin win the Ekstraliga during the 2024 Polish speedway season. [22]

Major results

World individual Championship

Grand Prix wins

World team Championships

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References

  1. ↑ "Jack Holder : Profil Zawodnika - w ZUZELEND.com - Żużel: Informacje, wyniki, tabele, społeczność - Świat Speedway -a". www.zuzelend.com. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Devils will be without top scorer Holder for final meet of the season". Plymouth Sports Gazette. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "2016 fixtures and results" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Poole Pirates: Jack Holder unfazed by expectation ahead of Wimborne Road plunge". Bournemouth Daily Echo. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "2017 FIM Speedway Under 21 World Championship Calendar". FIM.
  7. ↑ "Pirates star Jack Holder reaches Jason Crump Classic Cup A final... but older brother Chris Holder wins it". Bournemouth Daily Echo. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  8. ↑ "British Speedway rider profile". British Speedway. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  9. ↑ "Tigers win League Cup". British Speedway. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "2022 Speedway Grand Prix results". FIM. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  11. ↑ "Aussies win 2022 FIM Speedway of Nations". MC News. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  12. ↑ "Awesome Aussies". Speedway Star. 6 August 2022. pp. 3–10.
  13. ↑ "Jack Holder upstages three former Aussie champs two win fifth NSW crown in a row". Cessnock Advertiser. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  14. ↑ "Holder is Aussie Champ". British Speedway. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  15. ↑ "POLAND WIN SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP AHEAD OF GREAT BRITAIN AS MACIEJ JANOWSKI BEATS ROBERT LAMBERT IN DECISIVE HEAT 20". Eurosport. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  16. ↑ "BARTOSZ ZMARZLIK WINS 2023 SGP CHAMPIONSHIP WITH VICTORY IN TORUN, FREDRIK LINDGREN FINISHES SECOND". Eurosport. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  17. ↑ "Tigers champions in Grand Final drama". British Speedway. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  18. ↑ "Tigers name GP duo". British Speedway. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  19. ↑ "FIM Speedway Grand prix: Jack Holder opens season with thrilling maiden victory in Croatia". Eurosport. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  20. ↑ "Great Britain wins FIM Speedway of Nations World Title in Manchester Thriller". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  21. ↑ "Speedway: Sheffield battle back to draw at Ipswich and lift KO Cup". The Star. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  22. ↑ "ORLEN Oil Motor Lublin - Betard Sparta Wrocław 52:38. Deklasacja w finale, Sparta wicemistrzem Polski". Gazeta Wrocławska. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
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