Max Grosskreutz

Max Grosskreutz
Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Date of birth 25 April 1906(1906-04-25)
Place of birth    Prosperine, North Queensland
Date of death    20 September 1990(1990-09-20) (aged 84)
Current club information
Career status Retired
Career history
Manchester White City
Belle Vue Aces
Odsal Boomerangs
1930
1931-1936
1947-1948
Individual honours
Australian Champion
NSW State Champion
1929, 1936
1936, 1946
Team honours
National League Champion
Northern league Champion
National Trophy winner
1933, 1934, 1935, 1936
1931
1933, 1934, 1935, 1936

Max Octavius Grosskreutz (born 25 April 1906 in Prosperine, North Queensland, Australia [1]- died 20 September 1990) was a Speedway who finished third in the Star Riders' Championship in 1935, the forerunner to the Speedway World Championship.

Grosskreutz won the Australian Championship at Davies Park in Brisbane in 1929 and again in 1936 at the famous Sydney Showground. He was also NSW State Champion in 1936 and 1946.

He moved to the Belle Vue Aces in 1931. He stayed with the aces until the end of the 1936 season when he retired to manage the Norwich Stars.[1] During this time he made forty-one Test Match appearances for Australia.[2]

In 1947 he made a comeback, riding for the Odsal Boomerangs and made three further Test Match appearances.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Bamford, R. & Stallworthy, D. (2003) Speedway - The Pre War Years, Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2749-0
  2. ^ Foster, P. (2005) History of the Speedway Ashes, The History Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-3468-3
  3. ^ Addison J. (1948). The People Speedway Guide. Odhams Press Limited