Australia Wins Speedway of Nations
A
ustralian icon Brady Kurtz
feared he had blown his
final shot at a 2025 FIM Speed-
way World Championship gold
medal before joining Jack
Holder at the front to win the
FIM Speedway of Nations Final
in Torun, Poland, on Saturday,
October 4.
The Aussies lifted their
second FIM Speedway of Na
-
tions World title in three years,
following up their victory at
Danish track Vojens in 2022,
after Holder made a sublime
start, with World Championship
number two Kurtz riding one of
the opening laps of the season
to round Speedway GP World
Champion Bartosz Zmarzlik and
join his partner for a 7-2 victory
over Poland in the Grand Final.
Denmark picked up the bronze
medals.
After falling a point short of
Zmarzlik in the race for Speed
-
way GP World Championship
gold this year, Kurtz was elated
to win his first FIM Speedway
World Championship gold
medal in the FIM SON. But he
thought he had blown it at the
start of the Grand Final.
"I actually thought it was all
over when the tapes went up,"
Kurtz said. "I didn't make the
best start at all. But I squeezed
in there somehow and got to
the outside. I knew I had to get
to the fence.
"Jack was so solid all night.
He made every start, looked
for me and gave me the run
through. Sure enough, when the
straight came in the Grand Final,
Jack was in front, looking over
his shoulder and waiting for me
to come past.
"Once we hit the front, I was
checking the big screen every
lap, and we were solid all race.
We were so good together.
Once we hit the front, I was
pretty confident that we could
get it done, and I am happy with
this one."
Australia's FIM SON title win
comes with the added gloss of
a guaranteed place in the 2026
FIM Speedway World Cup Final,
which will be staged at War
-
saw's PGE Narodowy.
The Danes missed out on the
Grand Final after 2026 Speed
-
way GP qualifier Leon Madsen
was disqualified from the race
after a collision with Team Po-
land's Patryk Dudek.
CN
OVERALL (Top 5)
1. Australia (Brady Kurtz, Jack
Holder, Jason Doyle) 37
2. Poland (Patryk Dudek, Bartosz
Zmarzlik, Piotr Pawlicki) 35
3. Denmark (Leon Madsen,
Michael Jepsen Jensen, Mikkel
Michelsen) 34
4. Sweden (Jacob Thorssell, Fredrik
Lindgren, Timo Lahti) 27
5. Great Britain (Robert Lambert,
Dan Bewley, Tom Brennan) 24
WIND
IN THE
P54
Team Australia won the FIM
Speedway of Nations that was held in
Poland.
PHOTO: TAYLOR LANNING
