Tate Zischke

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Tate Zischke
Born (2005-07-30) 30 July 2005 (age 19)
Australia
NationalityAustralian
Career history
2024–2025 Workington
2024–2025 Belle Vue
Individual honours
2022 Australian Solo Championship bronze medal
2022NSW Under-21 champion

Tate Zischke (born 30 July 2005) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider. He currently rides in the British Speedway Championship, for Workington Comets. [1] [2] [3]

Speedway career

Zischke a protégé of Darcy Ward, [4] came to prominence when he won the New South Wales Under-21 championship 2022 and the bronze medal in the Australian Solo Championship, also in 2022. [5]

In 2023, he rode in the U24 Ekstraliga in Poland for Unia Leszno [4] before signing for Workington Comets in the British leagues for the 2024 season. [6] After being signed by Belle Vue Aces for the Premiership, [7] he suffered serious injuries in a crash fracturing seven vertebrae and five ribs on 1 July. [8] [9]

After recovering from injury he signed on again for Workington for the SGB Championship 2025 [10] and was named in the Belle Vue team again for the SGB Premiership season.

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References

  1. "Tate Zischke". FIM. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  2. "Tate Zischke". British Speedway. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  3. "Speedway photographer Dave Payne meets Workington Comets new signing Tate Zischke". Cumbria Crack. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  4. 1 2 "Workington Comets sign up Australian youngster Tate Zischke". Speedway Hub. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  5. "Max Fricke retains the Australian Solo Championship". Gillman Speedway. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  6. "Australian Tate Zischke Signs With Workington Comets". The Herdwick News. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  7. "Aces move for Zischke". British Speedway. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  8. "Zischke begins road to recovery". British Speedway. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  9. "Belle Vue speedway crash update as rider taken to hospital as race abandoned". Manchester Evening News. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  10. "Fourth signing for Workington Comets". Cumbria Crack. 20 November 2024. Retrieved 23 November 2024.