Chris Holder

Chris Holder
Chris Holder
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Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Date of birth 24 September 1987 (1987-09-24) (age 24)
Place of birth    Sydney, Australia
Nickname Noddy
Current club information
British league Poole Pirates
Polish league KS Toruń
Swedish league Piraterna Motala
Career history
Great Britain
Isle of Wight Islanders
Poole Pirates
Poland
WTS Wrocław
KS Toruń
Sweden
Piraterna

2006-2007
2008-

2007
2008-

2007-
Individual honours
Australian Champion
Australian Under-21 Champion
Australian Longtrack Champion
NSW State Champion
WA State Champion
2008, 2010, 2011
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
2005
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
2008
Team honours
Polish Ekstraliga Champion
Elite League Champion
Elite League Pairs Champion
Swedish Elitserien Champion
Premier League Pairs Winner
Premier League Fours Champion
Swedish Allsvenskan Champion
2008
2008
2009
2008,2009
2007
2007
2007

Chris Holder (born 24 September 1987 in Australia)[1] is a speedway rider currently riding for the Poole Pirates in the British Elite League. He became the Australian Individual Speedway Champion in 2008 and followed up with wins in 2010 and 2011 as well as winning the Australian Under-21 Championship in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. He finished as runner-up in the Under-21 World Championship in 2007 and 2008. His brother, James, also rides in the UK with the Isle of Wight Islanders in the Premier League.

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Career

Chris Holder started racing in the UK with the Isle of Wight Islanders in 2006. In 2007 he rode for Atlas Wrocław in the Polish Speedway Ekstraliga. Holder won the Swedish Allsvenskan in 2007 and the Elitserien in 2008 and 2009 with Lejonen. In 2008, Holder signed for KS Toruń in Polish Ekstraliga and won the league championship.

In October 2007, the Poole Pirates announced that Holder would ride for them in 2008 in the Elite League.[2] Holder won the Elite League Championship, and became a league winner with all three of his domestic teams in 2008.

Holder finished second in the 2007 Junior World Championship and was also selected to ride in the Australian team for the 2007 Speedway World Cup, finishing in 3rd place. Holder again represented Australian in the 2008 Speedway World Cup.

Holder won the Australian Championship in 2008, winning all five rounds with a record maximum 100 points.[3] He has won the Australian Under 21 Championship for four consecutive years (2005–2008), equalling a record set by Leigh Adams.[4] In October 2008, Holder finished runner-up in the Junior World Championship for the second year in succession to Emil Saifutdinov.

After Lejonen Gislaveds relegation from Swedish Elite League Chris has changed club to Swedish champions Piraterna Motala.

World final appearances

Speedway World Cup

Individual U-21 World Championship

U-21 Speedway World Cup

External links

References

  1. ^ Oakes, P.(2006). Speedway Star Almanac. ISBN 0-9552376-1-0
  2. ^ "Holder delight at Pirates deal". Daily Echo. 24 October 2007. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/topsport/display.var.1780474.0.holder_delight_at_pirates_deal.php. Retrieved 2007-12-03. 
  3. ^ "World Cup Final Teams". SpeedwayWorld.tv. 2007. http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/swc/a8162. Retrieved 2007-11-07. 
  4. ^ "Holder Enters Record Books". WorldSpeedway.com. 2008-01-27. http://www.worldspeedway.com/artman/publish/article_4981.shtml. Retrieved 2008-03-13. 
2011 Speedway Grand Prix riders
1 Poland Gollob 2 Poland Hampel 3 Australia Crump 4 Poland Holta 5 United States Hancock
6 United Kingdom Harris 7 Denmark Bjerre 8 Australia Holder 9 Sweden Jonsson 10 Denmark Pedersen
11 Sweden Lindgren 12 Russia Sayfutdinov 13 Russia Laguta 14 Sweden Lindbäck 15 Poland Kołodziej

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