Chris Holder (left) after finishing runner-up to Russia's Emil Sayfutdinov. Source: ADAM IHSE / AP
FORMER World Speedway Champion Chris Holder is intent on regaining his title and is heading back to Sydney to prepare for next year's challenge.
Holder, 26, has not ridden a bike since his title defence was dramatically rail-roaded when he was seriously injured in a shocking crash in England while riding for his Poole Pirates club in a team match against Coventry last July.
Holder received a fractured and dislocated left hip, broken pelvis, shattered right heel and broken left shoulder. Doctors told him he would be sidelined for at least six months or longer. But Holder wants to return to the track by no later than Christmas and is determined to be race fit in time for the opening round of next year's championship at Auckland's Western Springs Speedway in early April.
He has already set three consecutive nights of racing for his comeback at Kurri Speedway (December 26, 28) and Gosford Speedway (December 27) and will also contest the Australian title rounds in January.
He only recently started walking again and has undertaken a rigorous training program to hasten his recovery.
"I want to get back to Sydney and the warmer weather to help my rehabilitation because if I am any chance of regaining my world title, I have to ride in as many meetings before the start of the championship. I want to get back on a speedway bike as soon as possible," Holder said.
"I have a physio who is helping me. I get on an exercise bike to keep my legs moving and I pedal for a couple of hours every day. I am also working at getting movement back into my heel.
"After being off my feet for three months, I look at every day as a step closer toward returning to racing."
Holder was a sensational winner of the 2012 World Championship when he clinched victory at Torun, Poland, in the very last round of the year-long Grand Prix series.
Holder became only the fifth Australian rider to win the senior world championship since its inception in 1936.
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