With this year’s cycle speedway season approaching, British Cycling has confirmed the discipline’s calendar of national level events.

National championships

This year’s HSBC UK | Cycle Speedway Championships will take place over the weekend of 24-26 August, with individual national champions crowned across the categories in East Anglia venues including Norwich, Ipswich, Kesgrave and Great Blakenham:

24 August: Norwich: U8/U10/U12/U14

25 August: Ipswich: Open SF/Vets

25 August: Kesgrave: Open SF/Girls/U18

26 August: Great Blakenham: Open F/U16/Women

Further club titles will be contested over the subsequent month:

31 August: Poole: U12/U14/Junior Club Championships

14 September: Leicester: Women/Over 40s/U16 Girls Club Championships

22 September: Astley & Tyldesley: KO Cup Play-off Final

28 September: Wednesfield: Open/U16 Boys Club Championships

HSBC UK | Elite Grand Prix Series

This year’s series will get underway in Exeter on 13 April, and thereafter will visit Hull, Great Blakenham and Wednesfield:

Round 1, 13 April: Exeter

Round 2, 25 May: Hull

Round 3, 26 June: Great Blakenham

Round 4, 7 September: Wednesfield

Supertrax Women’s League

The 2019 Supertrax Women’s League will begin at Astley and Tyldesley and conclude in Coventry:

Round 1, 21 April: Astley and Tyldesley

Round 2, 9 June: South East and East region (venue TBC)

Round 3, 14 July: Newport

Round 4, 29 September: Coventry

Supertrax Battle of Britain

Three cycle speedway regions will do battle this year over six rounds of the 2019 Supertrax Battle of Britain:

Round 1, 21 April, Great Blakenham: SE&E v Mids

Round 2, 12 May, East Park: Mids v N&S

Round 3, 9 June, Hethersett: SE&E v N&S

Round 4, 14 July, Hull: N&S v Mids

Round 5, 18 August, Leicester: Mids v SE&E

Round 6, 29 September, Astley and Tyldesley: N