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Chris Holder surges into title lead
The Australian now sits atop the 2012 Speedway Championship standings after yet another top performanceChris Holder is only two rounds away from joining an illustrious group of Australians to have won the Speedway World Championship.
The New South Welshman again collected a big haul of points at the latest round in Sweden on September 8, and is now 8pts in front of defending world champion Greg Hancock.
“There was a lot of pressure on in Sweden, especially coming off the win at Cardiff,” said Holder.
“I’m really satisfied with how everything went. It was a slow start for me and I wasn’t the quickest guy by any means. But when it came to the crunch, I got the bike set up really well and made the most of the last race to get me into the semi.”
Holder then made it into the final, where he finished second behind Polish veteran Tomasz Gollob and ahead of Antonio Lindback.
Australia’s second rider, Jason Crump, bowed out in Sweden in the same semi won by Holder. Crump has slipped to fifth in the standings on 111pts behind Holder (134), Hancock (126), Nicki Pedersen (124) and Gollob (114)
The penultimate round will be held in Denmark on September 22.
Four Australians have won the world speedway title: Lionel van Praag (1936), Bluey Wilkinson (1938), Jack Young (1951-1952) and Crump (2004/2006/2009). Praag’s win came in the inaugural year of competition.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS: 1 Chris Holder 134, 2 Greg Hancock 126, 3 Nicki Pedersen 123, 4 Tomasz Gollob 114, 5 Jason Crump 111, 6 Emil Sayfutdinov 107, 7 Fredrik Lindgren 100, 8 Antonio Lindback 92, 9 Andreas Jonsson 77, 10 Hans Andersen 58, 11 Chris Harris 57, 12 Martin Vaculik 55, 13 Jaroslaw Hampel 52, 14 Bjarne Pedersen 49, 15 Peter Ljung 49, 16 Kenneth Bjerre 41, 17 Tomas H Jonasson 16, 18 Krzysztof Kasprzak 13, 19 Bartosz Zmarzlik 13, 20 Jurica Pavlic 12, 21 Josef Franc 9, 22 Przemyslaw Pawlicki 7, 23 Michael Jepsen Jensen 7, 24 Scott Nicholls 7, 25 Mikkel B Jensen 4, 26 Nicolas Covatti 3, 27 Peter Kildemand 2, 28 Jason Bunyan 1.
FIM SCANDINAVIAN SGP SCORES: 1 Tomasz Gollob 21, 2 Chris Holder 17, 3 Antonio Lindback 18, 4 Nicki Pedersen 11, 5 Fredrik Lindgren 11, 6 Emil Sayfutdinov 11, 7 Greg Hancock 8, 8 Jason Crump 8, 9 Bjarne Pedersen 6, 10 Martin Vaculik 6, 11 Jaroslaw Hampel 6, 12 Tomas H Jonasson 5, 13 Peter Ljung 5, 14 Chris Harris 5, 15 Hans Andersen 5, 16 Andreas Jonsson 1.
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