Tate Zischke

Tate Zischke
Born (2005-07-30) 30 July 2005 (age 19)
Australia
NationalityAustralian
Career history
2024–2025Workington
2024–2025Belle Vue
Individual honours
2022Australian 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.

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. ^ a b "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.


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