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]
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]