Nick Škorja (born 28 July 1998) is a Slovenian
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.
Career
Škorja appeared twice as a track reserve in the
2016 Speedway Grand Prix and once at the
2017 Speedway Grand Prix and
2018 Speedway Grand Prix. He has finished runner-up in the
Slovenian Individual Speedway Championship in 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022. He reached the finals of both the
2018 Speedway Under-21 World Championship and
2019 Speedway Under-21 World Championship.
In 2019 he was selected for the Slovenian team for the
2019 Speedway of Nations. He would have made his British league debut for
Newcastle Diamonds in 2020 but the season was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. The following season he signed for
Landshut Devils in the Polish league.
[ He rode for AMD Krško in 2022.
He has represented Slovenia in both the 2021 Speedway of Nations and ]2022 Speedway of Nations
The 2022 Speedway of Nations was the fifth FIM Speedway of Nations. The competition consisted of two semi-finals and a final. Great Britain were the defending champions having won the 2021 competition.
Both the semi-finals and final were hel ...
.
Major results
World individual Championship
* 2016 Speedway Grand Prix - 26th (12 pts)
* 2017 Speedway Grand Prix - 37th (1 pt)
* 2018 Speedway Grand Prix - 36th (0 pt)
* 2023 Speedway Grand Prix - =31st (0 pt)
World team Championships
* 2018 Speedway of Nations - =7th
* 2019 Speedway of Nations - =8th
* 2021 Speedway of Nations - =11th
*2022 Speedway of Nations
The 2022 Speedway of Nations was the fifth FIM Speedway of Nations. The competition consisted of two semi-finals and a final. Great Britain were the defending champions having won the 2021 competition.
Both the semi-finals and final were hel ...
- =9th
See also
* Slovenia national speedway team
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Škorja, Nick
1998 births
Living people
Slovenian speedway riders