Jack Holder

Jack Holder (born 23 March 1996) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider.[1] Jack is a World team champion and his brother Chris Holder is a former World individual champion.[2]

Jack Holder
Born (1996-03-23) 23 March 1996
Appin, New South Wales, Australia
Career history
Great Britain
2015–2016Plymouth Devils
2017Peterborough Panthers
2017Poole Pirates
2018Somerset Rebels
2019Poole Pirates
2020–2023Sheffield Tigers
Poland
2018–2022Toruń
2020Gorzów
2023Lublin
Sweden
2019, 2023Västervik
Individual honours
2023Australian Championship
2016Australian Under-21 Champion
Team honours
20222022 Speedway of Nations
2023SGB Premiership
2016Four Team Championship
2017Elite Shield
2018KO Cup
2022League Cup
2023Polish Ekstraliga Champion

Career

A successful rider in Australia, he came to England and first rode for Plymouth Devils in 2015.[3] He was part of the Plymouth team that won the Premier League Four-Team Championship, which was held on 23 and 24 July 2016, at the East of England Arena.[4]

After two seasons, he rode for both Peterborough Panthers and Poole Pirates in 2017, helping Poole to win the Elite Shield.[5]

Jack Holder finished in sixth place at the 2017 Speedway Under-21 World Championship[6] and 4th in the Jason Crump Classic Cup - considered a warm-up for the Australian Senior Solo Championship. The Boxing Day event (2018) was held in front of more than 2,500 fans and he rode through to the B Final where he beat Jye Etheridge, Mason Campton and Erik Riss and went through to the A Final. However, he finished at the back, while the race was won by older brother Chris Holder.[7] In 2018, he helped Somerset Rebels win the KO Cup.

In 2019, he started the season as number 1 for Poole Pirates but had a shaky start, and his friend and co-rider Brady Kurtz asked fans to be patient while he settled in. “I am sure Jack’s copped enough off social media and everything. He doesn’t need me asking him about it as well. Everyone just needs to let him get on with it – he’s just a kid, let him race his bike!"

In 2021 and 2022, he rode for the Sheffield Tigers in the SGB Premiership 2021 and SGB Premiership 2022.[8] He helped Sheffield win the 2022 League cup and reach the Play off final.[9]

Also in 2022, he competed in every round of the 2022 Speedway Grand Prix and scored 12 points at the British Grand Prix, he eventually finished in 12th place during the 2022 Speedway World Championship, after securing 67 points. He qualified for the 2023 Speedway Grand Prix by virtue of finishing 3rd in the 2023 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification.[10] However, the highlight of his season was winning the 2022 Speedway of Nations for Australia with Max Fricke.[11][12] In December, he won his fifth succesive New South Wales Individual Speedway Championship.[13]

In January 2023, Holder won the Australian Championship for the first time.[14] In 2023, he was part of the Australian team that finished fourth in the 2023 Speedway World Cup final.[15] He completed a career best finish of fourth in the 2023 Speedway Grand Prix but would have finished even higher had it not been for a hand injury suffered during the Swedish round, which forced him to sit out the Latvian round.[16] On the domestic front he helped Sheffield win the league title.[17]

Major results

World individual Championship

World team Championships

References
  1. "Jack Holder : Profil Zawodnika - w ZUZELEND.com - Żużel: Informacje, wyniki, tabele, społeczność - Świat Speedway -a". www.zuzelend.com. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  2. "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  3. "Devils will be without top scorer Holder for final meet of the season". Plymouth Sports Gazette. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  4. "2016 fixtures and results" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  5. "Poole Pirates: Jack Holder unfazed by expectation ahead of Wimborne Road plunge". Bournemouth Daily Echo. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  6. "2017 FIM Speedway Under 21 World Championship Calendar". FIM.
  7. "Pirates star Jack Holder reaches Jason Crump Classic Cup A final... but older brother Chris Holder wins it". Bournemouth Daily Echo. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  8. "British Speedway rider profile". British Speedway. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  9. "Tigers win League Cup". British Speedway. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  10. "2022 Speedway Grand Prix results". FIM. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  11. "Aussies win 2022 FIM Speedway of Nations". MC News. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  12. "Awesome Aussies". Speedway Star pages 3-10. 6 August 2022.
  13. "Jack Holder upstages three former Aussie champs two win fifth NSW crown in a row". Cessnock Advertiser. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  14. "Holder is Aussie Champ". British Speedway. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  15. "POLAND WIN SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP AHEAD OF GREAT BRITAIN AS MACIEJ JANOWSKI BEATS ROBERT LAMBERT IN DECISIVE HEAT 20". Eurosport. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  16. "BARTOSZ ZMARZLIK WINS 2023 SGP CHAMPIONSHIP WITH VICTORY IN TORUN, FREDRIK LINDGREN FINISHES SECOND". Eurosport. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  17. "Tigers champions in Grand Final drama". British Speedway. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
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