Andreas Lyager

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Andreas Lyager
Born1 December 1997 (1997-12) (age 27)
Fredericia, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Website official website
Career history
Denmark
2013 Outrup
2014 Grindsted
2015–2025 Slangerup
Poland
2022 Rybnik
2023–2024 Bydgoszcz
Sweden
2018 Nässjö
2019-2020 Vetlanda
2021-2022 Indianerna
2024 Rospiggarna
Great Britain
2015-2016 Scunthorpe
Individual honours
2018 Danish Junior champion
2017 European Junior Championship bronze
Team honours
2018 World team Junior silver
2024 Danish league champion

Andreas Lyager Hansen (born 1 December 1997) is a speedway rider from Denmark. [1] [2]

Speedway career

Lyager joined Scunthorpe Scorpions for the 2015 Premier League speedway season and 2016 Premier League speedway season. [3]

Lyager reached two finals of the World Under-21 Championships in 2017 and 2018 and was the Danish Junior champion in 2018, following two silver medals in the previous two years. [4] He also won three medals at the Junior World Team Championships (bronze in 2016 and 2017 and silver in 2018) and a bronze medal at the 2017 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship. [5]

In 2022, he rode for Rybnik in Poland, Slangerup in Denmark and Indianerna in Sweden. On 25 May 2024, he was eliminated in the 2025 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification. [6] Lyager helped Slangerup win the Danish Speedway League during the 2024 Danish speedway season. [7]

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References

  1. "Andreas Lyager profile". Speedway News. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  2. "Andreas Lyager". Speedway Euro. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  3. "Andreas Lyager". Scunthorpe Speedway. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  4. "Teams and results". WWOS backup. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  5. "European U21 Individual Speedway Championship - Final". FIM. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  6. "Andreas Lyager went to SEC Challenge". Metropolita Bydgoska. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  7. "MJJ stars as Slangerup ends 13-year Danish title drought". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 19 September 2024.