Tate Zischke (born 30 July 2005) 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 currently rides in the British Speedway

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, for

Workington Comets The Workington Comets are a British motorcycle speedway club, based in Workington, Cumbria based at the Northside Speedway track (known as the GT Tyres Arena for sponsorship purposes). The team previously operated from 1970 to 2018 and were ba ...

Speedway career

Zischke a protégé of

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, came to prominence when he won the New South Wales Under-21 championship 2022 and the bronze medal in the

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, also in 2022. In 2023, he rode in the U24 Ekstraliga in Poland for

Unia Leszno Unia Leszno are a motorcycle speedway team established on 8 May 1938 and based in Leszno, Poland. The team's home track is at the Stadion Alfreda Smoczyka. They compete in the Ekstraliga (speedway), Ekstraliga (the highest division) and are Pol ...

before signing for Workington Comets in the British leagues for the 2024 season. After being signed by

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 ...

for the Premiership, he suffered serious injuries in a crash fracturing seven vertebrae and five ribs on 1 July. After recovering from injury he signed on again for Workington for the

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and was named in the Belle Vue team again for the

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season.

References

2005 births Living people Australian speedway riders 21st-century Australian sportsmen Belle Vue Aces riders Workington Comets riders Australian expatriate speedway riders in England {{Australia-speedway-bio-stub