Tate Zischke
Appearance
Born | Australia | 30 July 2005
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Nationality | Australian |
Career history | |
2024 | Workington Comets |
Individual honours | |
2022 | Australian Solo Championship bronze medal |
2022 | NSW Under-21 champion |
Tate Zischke (born 30 July 2005) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider. He currently rides in the British Speedway Championship, for the Workington Comets.[1][2][3]
Speedway career
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tate Zischke". FIM. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Tate Zischke". British Speedway. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Speedway photographer Dave Payne meets Workington Comets new signing Tate Zischke". Cumbria Crack. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Workington Comets sign up Australian youngster Tate Zischke". Speedway Hub. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Max Fricke retains the Australian Solo Championship". Gillman Speedway. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Australian Tate Zischke Signs With Workington Comets". The Herdwick News. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Aces move for Zischke". British Speedway. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ "Zischke begins road to recovery". British Speedway. Retrieved 14 July 2024.