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SGB Premiership 2023
The 2023 Sports Insure SGB Premiership is the 88th season of the top tier of British speedway and the 6th known as the SGB Premiership. There was an increase of one team after the Leicester Lions opted to move up from the SGB Championship. 2023 summary Seven clubs will compete for the league championship, with Leicester Lions joining the from the division below. Each club will race against each other four times (home and away twice), meaning a total of 24 fixtures each. The 'Super Heat' scoring system was retained from the 2022 season, however extra points for away fixtures have been scrapped in favour of an aggregate bonus point. The top four teams in the league will qualify for the playoffs, with the two semi-final winners then reaching the Grand Final. The points limit remains 39 points for six riders, with one additional 'rising star'. League Regular season League table A fixtures B fixtures *Asterisk indicates super heat winner Play offs Home team scores are in b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SGB Premiership
The Speedway Great Britain (SGB) Premiership is the top division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB) in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). It was introduced for 2017 following a restructuring of British speedway.British Speedway Gets Major Revamp , speedwaygb.co, 3 November 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016 Teams Current teams * * * |
Kings Lynn Stars
King's Lynn Stars are a motorcycle speedway team who compete in the SGB Premiership. The nickname "Stars" comes from the defunct Norwich Stars team. The team was founded in 1965 and has been running continually since then, except for 1996 when King's Lynn failed to have a team competing in the British league system. History 1966–1995 The team's inaugural season was the 1966 British League season, where they finished 16th. They managed to finish in third place during the 1972 and 1973 seasons with their strongest riders being Terry Betts and Malcolm Simmons. The first silverware won by the team was the Knockout Cup in 1977. They won the final by the small margin of two points on aggregate, thanks largely to Michael Lee and Betts. The team continued to compete in the highest division until the end of the 1995 season but failed to finish any higher than 4th place. The team has operated with a few different nicknames, including: the Knights; Silver Machine (as an additional nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Sayfutdinov
Emil Damirovich Sayfutdinov (russian: link=no, Эмиль Дамирович Сайфутдинов; born 26 October 1989) is a Russian motorcycle speedway rider and member of the Russia national speedway team. He is a three times Speedway of Nations, World team champion, twice World Junior champion and a two-time winner of the European Championships in 2014 and 2015. Career history ;2005 Sayfutdinov gained his speedway licence in 2005, just before his 16th birthday. He started his career in the Russian league with Mega-Lada Togliatti. His team won the Russian Champion title, and Sayfutdinov was one Mega-Lada's best riders with an average of 2.271 (15th place in league). He won the Individual under-21 Russian Championship and was 6th in the Russian Senior Championship. He also won the Russian Pairs Championship title with Mega-Lada that year. In international competitions he started in Individual Speedway Junior European Championship, Individual U-19 European Championship. In Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keynan Rew
Keynan Rew (born 2003) is an international speedway rider from Australia. Speedway career In 2021, Rew helped Australia qualify for the final of the 2021 Speedway of Nations (the World team Championships of speedway). In 2022, he helped Wilki Krosno win the 2022 1.Liga. He won the 2022 Australian Under-21 Individual Speedway Championship. In 2023, he signed for Ipswich Witches for the SGB Premiership 2023 The 2023 Sports Insure SGB Premiership is the 88th season of the top tier of British speedway and the 6th known as the SGB Premiership. There was an increase of one team after the Leicester Lions opted to move up from the SGB Championship. 20 .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rew, Keynan Living people 2003 births Australian speedway riders Ipswich Witches riders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny King (speedway Rider)
Daniel Robert King (born 14 August 1986) is a British speedway rider.Rider Index , speedwaygb.co. Retrieved 24 March 2017 Career Born in , King began his career in 2001 with Peterborough Pumas. He has raced for , , , and |
Danyon Hume
Danyon Hume (born 25 July 1996) is a speedway rider from England. Career He began his British speedway career riding for the Rye House Raiders during the 2015 National League speedway season. The following year in 2016, he signed for Ipswich Witches at the back end of the season In 2017, he sustained a major arm injury at Poole which sidelined him for the remainder of that season. In 2019 as the club captain, he helped Leicester Lion Cubs win the division 3 league and cup double during the 2019 National Development League speedway season. In 2021, he rode for the Sheffield Tigers in the SGB Premiership, in addition to riding for the Poole Pirates in the SGB Championship. In 2022, he rode for the Ipswich Witches in the SGB Premiership as the number 8 rider and joined Glasgow Tigers in the SGB Championship. In 2023, he retained his place at the Ipswich Witches, where he helped the club win the Knockout Cup. He also signed for Redcar Bears in the SGB Championship. Hume signe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Doyle
Jason Kevin Doyle (born 6 October 1985) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider. He became World Champion in 2017. He won the 2015 Australian Solo Championship. He has also won the South Australian Championship in 2014, and the Elite League Riders' Championship and the Master of Speedway meeting in Germany in 2015. Doyle is a member of the Australia national speedway team and represented his country in the Speedway World Cup. He is also the 2016, 2017, 2019 Czech Republic Grand Prix winner, taking his maiden victory on 26 June 2016, at Prague's Markéta Stadium. He became only the third rider in history to win three Grands Prix in a row when he won in Gorzow, Teterow and Stockholm before breaking his elbow, dislocating his shoulder and injuring both his lungs after crashing in his first ride in the penultimate Grand Prix of the season in Torun, Poland. He was two points clear at the top of the standings at the time of his crash and officially withdrew from the season-ending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Barker (speedway Rider)
Benjamin (Ben) John Barker (born 10 March 1988 in Truro, Cornwall) is a British speedway rider. Career summary Barker signed for Stoke Potters in December 2006 after impressing for the Stoke club's Conference League side, Stoke Spitfires. In October 2006, Barker finished in third place in the British Under-18 Championship. In April 2007, a month after his 19th birthday, he reached the final of the British Under-21 Championship, finishing fourth. Barker represented Great Britain at Under-21 level, at the 2006 Team Speedway Junior World Championship. He also competed in the 2007 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship finishing seventh in Qualifying Round B at Goričan on 12 May 2007, before going out of the competition on 17 June in Semi Final B at Daugavpils, where he finished 14th. Barker returned to the Coventry Bees in the 2008 Elite League, after riding for the Coventry Cougars in the Conference Trophy during the 2004 season. In July 2008, he agreed a permane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Mulford
Jake Mulford (born 4 March 2004) is a speedway rider from England. Career In 2019, he signed for the Kent Kings for the 2019 National Development League speedway season. Unable to ride during 2020 because of COVID-19 cancelled season, he continued to ride for Kent in 2021 but appeared in both the NDL and the higher league of the SGB Championship 2021. In 2022, he was named the number 8 rider for the King's Lynn Stars in the SGB Premiership 2022 (the highest league in Britain). Mulford later switched to Peterborough Panthers to fulfill the same position for them. He also rode regularly for the Belle Vue Colts during the 2022 National Development League speedway season after leaving Kent. In 2023, he moved up to the Belle Vue first team, being named as the rising star for the Aces for the SGB Premiership 2023.In addition, he signed for Redcar Bears for the SGB Championship 2023 The 2023 SGB Cab Direct Championship season will be the 76th season of the second tier of British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wright (speedway Rider)
Charles Martin Wright (born 26 October 1988) is a British speedway rider. Career history Wright was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, started his career with the Buxton Hitmen in the Conference League before stepping up a level and joining the Workington Comets for the 2008 season. In 2011, he had a spell on loan at Leicester Lions, replacing Jamie Courtney, only to be replaced himself later in the season.2011 Rider Index: W , speedwaygb.co.uk, retrieved 2011-12-05 In 2012, he rode for until being released in July. Shortly after he went on to join the Glasgow Tigers only a few weeks after his axe from Edinburgh replacing long serving reserve Jayden O'Malley and simulta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaimon Lidsey
Jaimon Lidsey (born 27 February 1999) is an Australian speedway rider. He rides in the top tier of British Speedway, riding for the Belle Vue Aces in the SGB Premiership. Career He is twice a winner of the Australian Under-21 Individual Speedway Championship in 2018 and 2019 but his biggest success came in 2020 when he won the 2020 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship. In 2019, he rode in the British leagues for the first time for Belle Vue in the SGB Premiership 2019. In 2023, he returned to action for Belle Vue Aces for the SGB Premiership 2023 The 2023 Sports Insure SGB Premiership is the 88th season of the top tier of British speedway and the 6th known as the SGB Premiership. There was an increase of one team after the Leicester Lions opted to move up from the SGB Championship. 20 .... References 1999 births Living people Australian speedway riders Belle Vue Aces riders {{Speedway-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brady Kurtz
Brady Kurtz (born 27 September 1996) is an Australian speedway rider. Biography Born in Cowra, New South Wales, Kurtz isn't the only racer in his family. Brady's older brother Todd Kurtz is a fellow Speedway rider, who has ridden for the Plymouth Devils amongst other teams in the UK. Career Brady got his first break into British Speedway riding in the Premier League with the Somerset Rebels. After 2 impressive years with the Rebels, Kurtz was named in the Poole Pirates team to compete in the 2016 Elite League. This news didn't come as a surprise, as Kurtz had already been the subject of interest from Poole for some time. The Poole promoter Matt Ford had gone on record lauding Kurtz as an "outstanding talent" that "every single club wants to snap up as an asset". Kurtz said of his future team "I have been looking up to the Poole Pirates since I was seven years old and used to watch them on TV all the time. To have Matt Ford looking at me and saying those things is like a dream c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
