Emil Kramer

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Emil Kramer
Born(1979-11-14)14 November 1979
Mariestad, Sweden
Died9 December 2009(2009-12-09) (aged 30)
Töreboda, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Career history
Sweden
2007 Dackarna
2008 Lejonen
Great Britain
2002-2005 Hull
2002 King's Lynn
2003-2005 Oxford
2006-2009 Somerset
Team honours
2007 Swedish Speedway Team Championship
2004 UK League & KO Cup double
2008 UK Knockout Cup

Emil Karl Leif Kramer (14 November 1979 to 9 December 2009) was a motorcycle speedway rider from Sweden. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Career

Kramer came to prominence in 2000 when he reached the final of the 2000 Speedway Under-21 World Championship, where he secured a seventh-place finish. [5]

He began his British league career in 2002, when he signed for King's Lynn Silver Machine for the 2002 Elite League speedway season and Hull Vikings for the 2002 Premier League speedway season.

In 2003, he switched from King's Lynn to Oxford for the 2003 Elite League speedway season, although he remained with the same Silver Machine promotion. [2] [6]

He spent the following two seasons (2004 and 2005) with both Hull and Oxford [7] [8] He won the league and cup double with Hull during the 2004 Premier League speedway season.

He joined the Somerset Rebels for the 2006 Premier League speedway season. He stayed with Somerset for two more seasons in 2008 and 2009. In 2008, he was part of the team that won the Premier League Knockout Cup [9] and in 2009 he was voted Somerset Rebels Rider of The Year.

Following the 2009 season Kramer returned to Sweden as usual but on the night of 9 December 2009 he was killed in a car accident. [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Emil Kramer". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  2. 1 2 "2008 Rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "Friday December 11, 2009". Sheffield Speedway. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "2000 Speedway Under-21 World Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  6. ↑ "2003 league tables". Speedway GB. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  7. ↑ "Kramer floats in for Oxford". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  8. ↑ "Schramm's happy to be a racer again". Berkshire Live. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  9. 1 2 "Tributes paid to speedway star Emil Kramer killed in road accident". Burnham On Sea. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  10. ↑ "Tributes paid to Somerset Rebels' Emil Kramer". BBC. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
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