{"id":824217,"date":"2026-07-26T04:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:15:14","slug":"witches-star-kevin-juhl-pedersen-set-for-cup-final-comeback-on-monday-ipswich-witches-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824217\/","title":{"rendered":"WITCHES STAR KEVIN JUHL PEDERSEN SET FOR CUP-FINAL COMEBACK ON MONDAY \u2013 Ipswich Witches Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Juhl-PedersenK-KempD-6699-SW-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21252\"  \/>PHOTO: Stephen Waller<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ipswich Tru7 Group Witches welcome reserve star Kevin Juhl Pedersen back for the Premiership Knockout Cup Final opener with Leicester at Foxhall on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dane has declared himself fit for Witches\u2019 biggest night of the season so far after missing the past two meetings due to bruising on his lungs, suffered in a crash at Glasgow on July 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The damage left him unable to fly, forcing him to get a boat over to Amsterdam, before completing the rest of his journey back to Denmark by road. He has made the same trip in reverse to make it back to Foxhall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ipswich team manager Paul Hurry hailed his determination to be part of Witches\u2019 KO Cup Final showdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: \u201cI spoke to him on Wednesday, and I asked him, \u2018What\u2019s the state of play?\u2019 He said, \u2018I am coming back at the weekend, I\u2019m getting a ferry back, so I am going to be ready.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe had a trek to get home. I think he got a boat to Amsterdam, and his dad picked him up. He couldn\u2019t fly, and I think that\u2019s why he can\u2019t fly back to the UK. He\u2019s getting a boat back. You can\u2019t knock his effort \u2013 he\u2019s dead keen. Hopefully he will come over and feel good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe said he is really enjoying it with the Witches, and he has settled in well. All credit to him \u2013 he has had one meeting at home so far, and he did okay in that. He got better as the night went on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s definitely a rider for the future and one who can score a few points for us on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get behind the Witches as they bid to build up a big aggregate advantage at the Premiership Knockout Cup Final, first leg at Foxhall on Monday. Tickets are available online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/ipswichwitches\/2205953\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">STARTING LINE-UPS<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IPSWICH TRU7 GROUP WITCHES: 1. Tom Brennan, 2. Danny King (captain), 3. Richard Lawson, 4. Scott Nicholls, 5. Tobiasz Musielak, 6. Kevin Juhl Pedersen, 7. Jason Edwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LEICESTER LIONS: 1. Ryan Douglas, 2. Dan Thompson, 3. Nick Morris, 4. Kyle Howarth, 5. Sam Masters (captain), 6. Drew Kemp, 7. Joe Thompson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOTO: Stephen Waller Ipswich Tru7 Group Witches welcome reserve star Kevin Juhl Pedersen back for the Premiership Knockout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-824217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}