Sport | Speedway |
---|---|
Founded | 1958 |
Country | Sweden |
Most recent champion(s) | Casper Henriksson |
The Individual Speedway Junior Swedish Championship is an annual speedway event held each year since 1958. Swedish riders aged 21 and under take part. [1] [2]
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only one gear and have no brakes. Racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock. Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track, the motorcycles reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).
Per Christer Jonsson is a former speedway rider who won the Speedway World Championship in 1990, and finished runner-up in 1992. He earned 65 international caps for the Sweden national speedway team and also represented Sweden in the World Team Cup on seven occasions between 1985 and 1993.
Adrian Miedziński is a motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He earned four international caps for the Poland national speedway team.
Maciej Janowski is a Polish speedway rider who is a member of Poland national speedway team.
The Sweden national under-21 speedway team is the national under-21 motorcycle speedway team of Sweden and is controlled by the SVEMO. The team started in Under-21 World Cup in all editions and won four medals: two silver and two bronze. Denmark has produced three Under-21 World Champions: Peter Nahlin (1988), Mikael Karlsson (1994) and Andreas Jonsson (2000). In 1985 Per Jonsson has won Individual U-21 European Championship open for riders from all continents.
The Sweden national under-19 speedway team is the national under-19 speedway team of Sweden and is controlled by the SVEMO. The team has won the Team Speedway Junior European Championship once in 2008. Sweden has produced two Individual U-19 European Champion - Antonio Lindbäck (2004) and Dennis Andersson (2010). Lindbäck won a bronze medal also, just like Daniel Davidsson, Fredrik Lindgren and Robert Pettersson.
Vargarna is a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Norrköping, Sweden, representing SMK Östgöta. The team race at Norrköping Motorstadion. They ride in the Elitserien and are six times champions of Sweden.
The 1958 Swedish speedway season was the 1958 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1959 Swedish speedway season was the 1959 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1960 Swedish speedway season was the 1960 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1961 Swedish speedway season was the 1961 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1962 Swedish speedway season was the 15th season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1963 Swedish speedway season was the 1963 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1964 Swedish speedway season was the 1964 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1965 Swedish speedway season was the 1965 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1966 Swedish speedway season was the 1966 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1967 Swedish speedway season was the 1967 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1969 Swedish speedway season was the 1969 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1971 Swedish speedway season was the 1971 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
The 1985 Swedish speedway season was the 1985 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.