Antti Pajari

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Antti Pajari
Born27 August 1932 (1932-08-27)
Sippola, Finland
NationalityFinnish
Career history
Great Britain
1959 Coventry Bees
Individual honours
1956, 1957, 1958 Finnish champion
1959 European longtrack silver

Antti Pajari (born 27 August 1932) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Finland. [1]

Career

Pajari came to prominence after winning the Finnish national title at the Finnish Individual Speedway Championship in 1956. [2] He then won two more to complete three consecutive championships from 1956 to 1958. [3]

The success drew the attention of the British speedway leagues and Coventry Bees signed him for the 1959 Speedway National League. [4] [5]

He won the silver medal in the 1959 Individual Long Track European Championship.

His career at Coventry ended in September 1959, when he broke his wrist riding in Denmark and he returned to his native Finland. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022, Antti Pajari" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Speedway Individual Finnish Championship". Speedway Sanomat. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Individual Finnish Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "A_Z of Rider Averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Flying Finn" . Leicester Evening Mail. 15 April 1959. Retrieved 29 July 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Bees well beaten in Match at Oxford" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 18 September 1959. Retrieved 29 July 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
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