Brian Andersen

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Brian Andersen
Born (1971-03-13) 13 March 1971 (age 53)
Sønderborg, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Career history
Denmark
2000–2001 Herning
2002 Kronjylland
Great Britain
1992-1999 Coventry
2000-2002 Oxford
Poland
1991 Poznań
1995, 1997 Rzeszów
1998-1999 Leszno
2000 Wrocław
2001 Częstochowa
Individual honours
1995, 1999 Danish Champion
1997 Grand Prix wins
1991 U-21 World Champion
Team honours
1996, 1998 World Cup bronze

Brian Askel Andersen (born 13 March 1971) is a Danish former international motorcycle speedway rider. [1] [2]

Contents

Career

Andersen reached the final of the Under-21 World Championship in 1990. The following year, he won the championship to become the 1991 Junior World Champion. In the final he defeatied fellow Dane Morten Andersen in a run-off for the title after both riders had finished on 14 points. [3] [4] The success brought him to the attention of British leagues and Coventry Bees signed him for the 1992 British League season. [1]

He drove up his average over the following seasons for Coventry and established himself as one of their leading riders. In 1995, he won the Individual Speedway Danish Championship. In 1996, he finished second in the 1996 Intercontinental Final, which qualified him for his first Speedway Grand Prix series. [5]

He rode in the Grand Prix between 1997 and 2001, and won two bronze medals in the Speedway World Team Cup. He won the Danish Championship for the second time in 1999, which was also his last season for Coventry before he moved to join Oxford Cheetahs for the 2000 Elite League speedway season. [1]

In 2001, he was part of the Oxford Cheetahs title winning team in 2001. [1]

Family

His brother Jan Andersen was a speedway rider. His son Mikkel Andersen is also a speedway rider and the 2022 FIM Speedway Youth World Championship (SGP3) world champion. [6]

Major results

World individual Championship

World team Championships

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Brian Andersen". WWOS backup. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "1991". Speedway.org. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Andersen leads dazzling Danes to Brandon glory" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 1 October 1991. Retrieved 9 March 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Speedway World Championship History - 1996". International Speedway. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Dad can barley watch". Speedway Star. 19 September 2022. p. 30.
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