Born | Herlev, Denmark | 19 October 1987
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Nationality | Danish |
Career history | |
Denmark | |
2004–2018, 2022–2023 | Slangerup |
2021 | Holsted |
Sweden | |
2006 | Vargarna |
2022–2024 | Griparna |
Great Britain | |
2007, 2015 | Workington |
2007-2008, 2016 | Wolverhampton |
2009, 2017 | Peterborough |
2014 | Coventry |
2016 | King's Lynn |
Poland | |
2006 | Miskolc |
2007 | Lublin |
2008 | Gorzów |
2009-2011, 2018 | Krosno |
2012 | Daugavpils |
2013-2015 | Kraków |
2017 | Ostrów |
2020 | Rzeszów |
2022-2023 | Tarnów |
Individual honours | |
2023 | Long Track World Championship bronze medal |
Team honours | |
2006 | U-21 World Cup bronze medal |
Kenneth Kruse Hansen (born 19 October 1987 in Herlev, Denmark) [1] is a motorcycle speedway rider from Denmark. [2] [3]
Hansen represented Denmark in the 2006 Under-21 Speedway World Cup in Rybnik and won a bronze medal. [4]
He started the 2007 season with the Workington Comets [5] in the Premier League but lost his place after sustaining a broken wrist. [6] He did however reach the final of the Danish Individual Speedway Championship in 2007. [7]
It was announced in 2008 that the Wolverhampton Wolves had signed Hansen [8] on a full contract. [9] He spent both the 2007 and 2008 seasons with the Midlands club before switching to Peterborough Panthers for the 2009 Elite League speedway season. [3]
He concentrated on riding in Poland for the next few years before returning to Britain to ride for the Coventry Bees in the 2014 Elite League speedway season. [3] He would spend two more seasons with Workington in 2015 and 2016 but since 2018, rides in the Danish league, Swedish league and Polish league.
In 2023, he claimed a bronze medal in the 2023 Individual Long Track World Championship. [10]
His brother-in-law Lars Munkedal was a professional speedway rider. [3]
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