Jaimon Lidsey (born 27 February 1999) is an Australian

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

rider. He won the Under-21 World Championship in 2020.

Career

Lidsey came to prominence after winning the

Australian Under-21 Individual Speedway Championship The Australian Under-21 Speedway Championship is a motorcycle speedway championship held each year since 1986, to determine the Australian Under-21 national champion. The event is organised by Motorcycling Australia (MA). History The event was ...

in 2018, which he then successfully defended in 2019. In 2019, he rode in the highest tier of the British speedway leagues for the first time for

Belle Vue Aces The Belle Vue Aces are a British speedway club, based in Manchester. The club hold the record of having won the top tier League championship 14 times. They currently compete in the SGB Premiership, racing at The National Speedway Stadium, wit ...

in the

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. Lidsey became the world-U21 world champion in 2020. This was the same year that Lidsey began to make an impact in the Polish leagues for

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. In 2023, he returned to action for Belle Vue Aces for the

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. He also rode in the 2023 Peter Craven Memorial and was part of the Australian team that finished fourth in the

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final. He re-signed for Belle Vue for the 2024 season and was an integral part of the team that secured the league title. Lidsey secured a lucrative contract with Polish club Grudziadz for the 2024 Polish speedway season. In December 2024 he won his third

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. He returned to Grudziadz for the 2025 Polish speedway season. and once again signed to ride for Belle Vue in the SGB Premiership.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lidsey, Jaimon 1999 births Living people Australian speedway riders 21st-century Australian sportsmen Belle Vue Aces riders Australian expatriate speedway riders in England