Tate Zischke

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Tate Zischke
Born (2005-07-30) 30 July 2005 (age 18)
Australia
NationalityAustralian
Career history
2024 Workington Comets
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 the 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]

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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.


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