Darcy Ward
Encyclopedia
Darcy Stephen Ward is an Australian motorcycle speedway
rider who won the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Australian Under-21 Championships as well as the 2009
and 2010 World Under-21 Championship
s. He is currently riding for Poole Pirates
in the British Elite League
.
(Poland
), King's Lynn Stars
(Great Britain
). and AC Landshut (Germany). Ward's first meeting in the Polish Ekstraliga
was the Pomeranian-Kuyavian Derby
between Toruń and Bydgoszcz
at Polonia Stadium. In this match he scored seven points and one bonus (2,1*,0,1,3). Toruń won his meeting 51-39. Unibax Toruń won regular season and after play-off qualify to the Ekstraliga Final. In the final meetings, Ward scoring 11 points and his team lost to Falubaz Zielona Góta
80:88. In total, Ward scoring 63 points, 11 bonus points in 53 heats (10 meetings) and was qualify on 34th place (Average 1.396).
Ward won the 2009 World Under-21 Championship
in Goričan
, Croatia with 13 points. He also rode for Australia team
at the Under-21 World Cup
. In a Qualifying Round One he scored a maximum 15 points, but Australia finished third and were knocked out of the competition.
On Saturday, 27 August Darcy made his FIM Speedway Grand Prix debut as a Wildcard in Toruń, one of his former clubs. It took a while for Ward to settle into the meeting, claiming 3rds in his first two rides. In his third ride, Darcy announced himself in style with a hard fought win over Championship leader Greg Hancock and World Champion Tomasz Gollob in heat 12 and in heat 13 Darcy scored another win to secure his place in the semi-final. Darcy finished his qualification heats with a second place in heat 18, with a place in the first semi he was second to pick and chose gate two. In the heat he had taken an early lead ahead of Andreas Jonsson and scored his third heat win of the night. From gate two against in the final, a nervous Darcy moved at the first run of the heat but didn't touch the tapes. In the rerun Darcy battled hard into the first bend and had the lead for a split second but was past by Jonsson and home rider Jaroslaw Hampel down the back straight, although he tried his best he couldn't find a way past the pair. Darcy claimed 3rd, finishing his GP debut with a podium place.
Team U-21 World Championship
(Under-21 World Cup)
Australian Under-21 Championship
Team Polish Championship
(Speedway Ekstraliga
)
Motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
rider who won the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Australian Under-21 Championships as well as the 2009
2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship
The 2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship will be the 2009 version of FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship. The Final will take place on October 4, 2009 in Goričan, Croatia. It will be first Final on Balkans. The current World Champion is Emil Sayfutdinov from Russia who won the...
and 2010 World Under-21 Championship
2010 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship
The 2010 Individual Speedway Under 21 World Championship was the 2010 version of FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship season. First time new champion was determined in three finals between 17 July and 2 October 2010....
s. He is currently riding for Poole Pirates
Poole Pirates
Poole Pirates are a motorcycle speedway team based in Poole, England, competing in the British Elite League...
in the British Elite League
Elite League
Elite League may refer to:* French Rugby League Elite One Championship* Elite Ice Hockey League* Speedway Elite League* Elite League, Kenyan cricket competition...
.
2009
In the 2009 season he will ride for Unibax ToruńKS Torun
KS Toruń is a Polish speedway team from Toruń, Poland. Formerly known as Apator Toruń .- Team Information :* Full name: Klub Sportowy Toruń Unibax SA* Address: 87-100 Toruń, ul. Pera Jonssona 7...
(Poland
2009 Speedway Ekstraliga
The 2009 Speedway Ekstraliga is the 10th Speedway Ekstraliga season, the top division of Team Speedway Polish Championship. The Ekstraliga have eight teams competing The 2009 Speedway Ekstraliga (known as the CenterNet Mobile Speedway Ekstraliga for sponsorship reasons) is the 10th Speedway...
), King's Lynn Stars
King's Lynn Stars
King's Lynn Stars are a motorcycle speedway team who compete in the British Elite League. The nickname "Stars" comes from the defunct Norwich Stars team...
(Great Britain
2009 Speedway Premier League
The 2009 Premier League was the second division of motorcycle speedway racing in the United Kingdom and the 15th season since its creation in 1995...
). and AC Landshut (Germany). Ward's first meeting in the Polish Ekstraliga
Speedway Ekstraliga
The Speedway Ekstraliga is the top division of speedway in Poland. It has been called the "richest and most popular speedway league in the world" and attracts riders from all over the world...
was the Pomeranian-Kuyavian Derby
Pomeranian-Kuyavian Derby
The Pomeranian-Kuyavian Derby , also known as the Pomeranian Derby is a motorcycle speedway match between rivals Polonia Bydgoszcz and KS Toruń. The rivalry comes about as Bydgoszcz and Toruń are the two largest cities in former Bydgoszcz Voivodeship , and since 1999 two capitals of...
between Toruń and Bydgoszcz
Polonia Bydgoszcz
ŻKS Polonia Bydgoszcz is a Polish speedway team based in Bydgoszcz who currently race in the Speedway Ekstraliga . The club has won the Polish Speedway League Championship seven times, the latest in 2002, and European Team Championship three times, the latest in 2001.- Club history :* 1920 -...
at Polonia Stadium. In this match he scored seven points and one bonus (2,1*,0,1,3). Toruń won his meeting 51-39. Unibax Toruń won regular season and after play-off qualify to the Ekstraliga Final. In the final meetings, Ward scoring 11 points and his team lost to Falubaz Zielona Góta
ZKZ Zielona Góra
Falubaz Zielona Góra is a Polish speedway team based in Zielona Góra who currently races in Speedway Ekstraliga. The club has won Polish Speedway League five times . It is commonly known as Falubaz due to one of its former names....
80:88. In total, Ward scoring 63 points, 11 bonus points in 53 heats (10 meetings) and was qualify on 34th place (Average 1.396).
Ward won the 2009 World Under-21 Championship
2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship
The 2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship will be the 2009 version of FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship. The Final will take place on October 4, 2009 in Goričan, Croatia. It will be first Final on Balkans. The current World Champion is Emil Sayfutdinov from Russia who won the...
in Goričan
Gorican
Goričan is a municipality in Međimurje County, Croatia.Goričan is the only village belonging to the municipality. Its population in the 2001 census was 3,148. Of the entire population, 3,088 people identified themselves as Croats....
, Croatia with 13 points. He also rode for Australia team
Australia national speedway team
Australia are one of the major teams in international speedway. The team is managed by former rider, three time Australian Champion and 1994 World #3 Craig Boyce and captained by three time Speedway World Champion Jason Crump...
at the Under-21 World Cup
2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship
The 2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship will be the fifth annual FIM Team Under-21 World Championship competition since its introduction in 2005. The final will take place on September 5, 2009 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland...
. In a Qualifying Round One he scored a maximum 15 points, but Australia finished third and were knocked out of the competition.
2011
In January 2011, Darcy became Australian Under-21 Champion for the third time and emulating Chris Holder and Leigh Adams in claiming a straight hat-trick of titles. In the 2011 season, starting in March, Ward will ride for Poole Pirates (Great Britain), Lejonen (Sweden) and Gdańsk (Poland).On Saturday, 27 August Darcy made his FIM Speedway Grand Prix debut as a Wildcard in Toruń, one of his former clubs. It took a while for Ward to settle into the meeting, claiming 3rds in his first two rides. In his third ride, Darcy announced himself in style with a hard fought win over Championship leader Greg Hancock and World Champion Tomasz Gollob in heat 12 and in heat 13 Darcy scored another win to secure his place in the semi-final. Darcy finished his qualification heats with a second place in heat 18, with a place in the first semi he was second to pick and chose gate two. In the heat he had taken an early lead ahead of Andreas Jonsson and scored his third heat win of the night. From gate two against in the final, a nervous Darcy moved at the first run of the heat but didn't touch the tapes. In the rerun Darcy battled hard into the first bend and had the lead for a split second but was past by Jonsson and home rider Jaroslaw Hampel down the back straight, although he tried his best he couldn't find a way past the pair. Darcy claimed 3rd, finishing his GP debut with a podium place.
Personal life
His father, Brian Ward, was a speedway rider also.World Championships
Individual U-21 World ChampionshipIndividual Speedway Junior World Championship
The Individual Speedway Junior World Championship is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the International Motorcycling Federation since 1977...
- 20092009 Individual Speedway Junior World ChampionshipThe 2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship will be the 2009 version of FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship. The Final will take place on October 4, 2009 in Goričan, Croatia. It will be first Final on Balkans. The current World Champion is Emil Sayfutdinov from Russia who won the...
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GoričanGoricanGoričan is a municipality in Međimurje County, Croatia.Goričan is the only village belonging to the municipality. Its population in the 2001 census was 3,148. Of the entire population, 3,088 people identified themselves as Croats....
- Winner - 13pts - 20102010 Individual Speedway Junior World ChampionshipThe 2010 Individual Speedway Under 21 World Championship was the 2010 version of FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship season. First time new champion was determined in three finals between 17 July and 2 October 2010....
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/
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- Winner - 35pts +3pts
Team U-21 World Championship
Team Speedway Junior World Championship
The Team Speedway Junior World Championship is an annual speedway event held each year in different countries . The first edition of the competition was in 2005. Current World Champions are Russia team, who won in 2011 Final...
(Under-21 World Cup)
- 20092009 Team Speedway Junior World ChampionshipThe 2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship will be the fifth annual FIM Team Under-21 World Championship competition since its introduction in 2005. The final will take place on September 5, 2009 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland...
- 3rd place in Qualifying Round 1 - 20102010 Team Speedway Junior World ChampionshipThe 2010 Team Speedway Junior World Championship will be the 6th FIM Team Under-21 World Championship season. The Final took place on September 5, 2010 at Rye House Stadium in Rye House, Great Britain. It was the first Final in Great Britain. The Championship was won by Denmark, who beat Sweden,...
- 2nd place in the Qualifying Round One
Domestic competitions
Australian Championship- 20092009 Individual Speedway Australian ChampionshipThe 2009 Individual Speedway Australian Championship was the 2009 version of the Individual Speedway Australian Championship organised by Motorcycling Australia. The three final rounds took place between 3 January and 10 January. The championship was won by Leigh Adams, who beat the defending...
- 9th - 31pts - 2010 - 3rd - 51pts
Australian Under-21 Championship
- 2009 - Winner - 14pts
- 2010 - Winner - 11pts (3rd) - 1st in Final
Team Polish Championship
Team Speedway Polish Championship
The Team Speedway Polish Championship is an annual speedway event held each year in different polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union since 1948....
(Speedway Ekstraliga
Speedway Ekstraliga
The Speedway Ekstraliga is the top division of speedway in Poland. It has been called the "richest and most popular speedway league in the world" and attracts riders from all over the world...
)
- 20092009 Team Speedway Polish ChampionshipThe 2009 Team Speedway Polish Championship will be the 2009 version of the Team Speedway Polish Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union and Speedway Ekstraliga LLC . In 2009 there will be three leagues: Ekstraliga, First and Second League...
- 2nd for Unibax ToruńKS TorunKS Toruń is a Polish speedway team from Toruń, Poland. Formerly known as Apator Toruń .- Team Information :* Full name: Klub Sportowy Toruń Unibax SA* Address: 87-100 Toruń, ul. Pera Jonssona 7...
(Average 1.396)
See also
- Australia national speedway teamAustralia national speedway teamAustralia are one of the major teams in international speedway. The team is managed by former rider, three time Australian Champion and 1994 World #3 Craig Boyce and captained by three time Speedway World Champion Jason Crump...
, Australian Under-21 TeamAustralia national under-21 speedway teamThe Australia national under-21 speedway team is the national under-21 motorcycle speedway team of Australia and is controlled by the Motorcycling Australia. The team qualify to the Under-21 World Cup final only once, in 2008 finished fourth. Australia has produced three Under-21 World Champions:...