Born | Heddon Greta, New South Wales, Australia | 30 November 1996
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Nationality | Australian |
Career history | |
Great Britain | |
2017–2024 | Edinburgh |
2021, 2023–2024 | Sheffield |
2022–2023 | King's Lynn |
Poland | |
2023–2024 | Gniezno |
Denmark | |
2023 | Region Varde |
Team honours | |
2023 | SGB Premiership |
Joshua Pickering (born 30 November 1996) is a motorcycle speedway rider from Australia. [1] [2]
He began his British speedway career riding for Edinburgh in 2017. [3] [4] He began his Championship average at the assessed 5.00 [5] and completed the season with the fifth-highest average of 4.62. [6] By the end of the 2019 season, despite a mid-season injury at Birmingham, [7] his average for the Monarchs was past his assessed average and had reached 6.98. [8] Pickering, however, criticized the Championship league structure as unfair on riders from other countries due to its reduction in their number of matches completed by each team. [9]
While still riding for the Monarchs in the Championship in mid-2021, the Sheffield Tigers signed Pickering for their Premiership team. Co-promoter Damien Bates remarked at the time, "[I]t’s a surprise he’s not had a Premiership place before," replacing then-team member Justin Sedgmen. [10]
Pickering signed for the King's Lynn Stars ahead of the 2022 Premiership Season. [11] During the 2022 season, he rode for the King's Lynn in the SGB Premiership 2022 and for Edinburgh in the SGB Championship 2022. [12]
In 2023, he re-signed for King's Lynn for the SGB Premiership 2023 and remained the team captain but suffered injuries and later switched to Sheffield. [13] The switch proved successful as he helped Sheffield win the league title. [14] He also re-signed for Edinburgh for the SGB Championship 2023. [15]
In 2024, he re-signed for Sheffield and Edinburgh respectively. [16]
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