Zaine Kennedy

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Zaine Kennedy
Born5 April 1998 (1998-04-05) (age 27)
Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Career history
2019 Sheffield Tigers
2021 Leicester Lions
2022-2023, 2025 Scunthorpe Scorpions
Individual honours
2025 Queensland champion

Zaine Kennedy (born 5 April 1998) is a speedway rider from Australia. [1] [2] [3]

Speedway career

Kennedy represented the Australian U-23 team at the 2018 Team Speedway Junior World Championship semi-finals. [4]

Kennedy began his British speedway career when he joined Sheffield Tigers for the SGB Championship 2019. [5] [6] [7] His 2020 season was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, before he signed for the Leicester Lions during the SGB Championship 2021 season. [8]

In 2022, he rode for the Scunthorpe Scorpions in the SGB Championship 2022 but suffered an end of season injury when he fractured his pelvis in a crash. [9] In 2023, he signed for Scunthorpe again [10] but remained in his native Australia after failing to fully recover from his injuries. [11] After another year spent in Australia, Kennedy finally returned to Scunthorpe for the SGB Championship 2025. His brother Declan Kennedy also signed for the club. [11]

In November 2025, Kennedy won the Queensland Solo Championship at Pioneer Park in Ayr.

References

  1. ↑ "Kennedy, Zaine". British Speedway. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Zaine Kennedy profile". Speedway News. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  4. ↑ "Speedway driver walks away from horror crash unscathed". Glasgow Times. 15 July 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  5. ↑ "TIGER ZAINE WANTS TEAM SPOT". Sheffield Speedway. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Speedway: Highly-rated Zaine Kennedy zooms in to join Sheffield Tigers". The Star. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "Zaine Kennedy has a dilemma as he prepares for Sheffield Tigers's next speedway event". The Star. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  8. ↑ "Zaine Kennedy". WWOS backup. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "ZAINE KENNEDY UDPATE [sic]". Scunthorpe Speedway. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "Scorpions bring back Kennedy". British Speedway. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  11. 1 2 "Scorpions sign Worrall, Name Team". Speedway Star. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
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