Nicolai Klindt Explained

Nicolai Klindt
Nationality:Danish
Birth Date:29 December 1988
Birth Place:Outrup, Denmark
Career1:Denmark
Years2:2004, 2006–2008, 2010, 2024
Career2:Outrup/Region Varde
Years3:2005
Career3:Fredericia
Years4:2009, 2011, 2012–2015, 2018–2019
Career4:Holsted
Years5:2016
Career5:Grindsted
Years6:2017
Career6:Esbjerg
Career7:SES
Years7:2021–2023
Career9:Poland
Years10:2006-2007, 2012-2013
Career10:Wrocław
Years11:2008
Career11:Zielona Góra
Years12:2009, 2018-2022
Career12:Ostrów
Years13:2010, 2022
Career13:Rybnik
Years14:2011
Career14:Daugavpils
Years15:2014
Career15:Rzeszów
Years16:2015
Career16:Łódź
Years17:2016
Career17:Częstochowa
Years18:2017
Career18:Kraków
Years19:2020
Career19:Gorzów
Years20:2023–2024
Career20:Gdańsk
Career22:Sweden
Years23:2006–2007
Career23:Team Bikab
Years24:2008
Career24:Smederna
Years25:2015
Career25:Vetlanda
Years26:2021
Career26:Lejonen
Years27:2022
Career28:Great Britain
Years29:2008–2010, 2012
Career29:Wolverhampton
Years30:2011, 2014
Career30:Swindon
Years31:2013, 2022–2024
Career31:King's Lynn
Years32:2013
Career32:Peterborough
Years33:2013–2014, 2016
Career33:Scunthorpe
Years34:2015
Career34:Sheffield
Years35:2016
Career35:Leicester
Years36:2017–2019
Career36:Poole
Years37:2018
Career37:Workington
Years38:2020–2021
Career38:Ipswich
Career39:Oxford
Years39:2024
Indivyear1:2007
Indivhonour1:U-19 European Champion
Indivyear2:2020
Indivhonour2:Danish championship silver medal
Indivyear3:2006, 2008
Indivhonour3:Danish U21 champion
Teamyear1:2010
Teamhonour1:Speedway World Cup silver
Teamyear2:2008, 2009
Teamhonour2:U-21 World Cup silver medal
Teamyear3:2015
Teamhonour3:Elitserien League Champion
Teamyear4:2018
Teamhonour4:SGB Premiership 2018

Nicolai Klindt (born 29 December 1988) is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider who won the 2007 Individual Under-19 European title.[1] [2]

Career

In 2006, Klindt won the Danish Under 21 Individual Speedway Championship and followed up the success by winning the 2007 European U19 title.[3]

In 2008, he signed for his first British league team Wolverhampton Wolves for the 2008 Elite League speedway season[4] and also won his second Danish U21 title.[5] He spent two more seasons at Wolves, improving his average to 6.91, making his debut for Denmark in the 2009 Speedway World Cup and winning a silver medal at the 2010 Speedway World Cup. He switch to the Swindon Robins in 2011 before returning to Wolves for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

Over the next few seasons he rode for various clubs from 2014 to 2016. During the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons Klindt rode for Poole Pirates and helped them win the SGB Premiership 2018 and the 2017 and 2019 Premiership Shield. The following season he signed for Ipswich Witches but the 2020 season was curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, however he returned to ride for them during the SGB Premiership 2021.[6]

In 2022, he joined the King's Lynn Stars for the SGB Premiership 2022.[7] Also in 2022, he helped SES win the 2022 Danish Super League.[8]

In 2023, he re-signed for King's Lynn for the SGB Premiership 2023.[9] In August 2023, while riding in a Polish fixture he suffered a serious crash, which resulted in a broken neck but luckily he still had movement in his legs and arms.[10]

On his return from injury he signed for the Oxford Spires for the 2024 season[11] but was soon replaced by Erik Riss and subsequently returned to King's Lynn.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nicolai Klindt . WWOS backup . 13 December 2022.
  2. Web site: Nicolai Klindt . Polish Speedway Database . 9 March 2023.
  3. Web site: Nicolai Klindt . Poole Speedway . 15 January 2023.
  4. Web site: 2008 Rider index . British Speedway . 17 March 2023.
  5. Web site: KLINDT TAKES DANISH TITLE . Wolverhampton Speedway . 29 March 2023.
  6. Web site: Nicolai Klindt . Ipswich Speedway . 13 May 2021 . 13 December 2022.
  7. Web site: British Speedway rider profile . British Speedway . 29 September 2022.
  8. Web site: 2022 table and results . Speedway Ligaen . 20 September 2022 . 5 January 2023.
  9. Web site: KK back as Stars complete . British Speedway . 13 December 2022 . 13 December 2022.
  10. Web site: STARS SKIPPER INJURED . British Speedway . 14 August 2023 . 15 August 2023.
  11. Web site: Magic news for Spires . British Speedway . December 2023 . 1 December 2023.
  12. Web site: Spires move for Riss . British Speedway . 19 April 2024.