Patrick Hougaard

Patrick Hougaard

Born	(1989-05-23) 23 May 1989 (age 36) Fredericia, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Career history
Denmark
2004–2009, 2011–2014	Holsted
2005–2006	Fredericia
2010	Vojens
2015–2017	Fjelsted
2018	Grindsted
Poland
2006-2007	Leszno
2008-2010, 2013	Tarnów
2011	Grudziądz
2014-2015	Bydgoszcz
2016-2017	Kraków
2018	Gdańsk
Sweden
2015	Vargarna
Great Britain
2007	Reading
2008-2012	Belle Vue
2013	Peterborough
2014, 2016	Leicester
2017	Somerset
Individual honours
2007 - 3rd place	European Championship
2006	U-19 Nordic Champion
2007, 2009	Danish Under-21 champion
Team honours
2010	U-21 World Cup
2008 - 3rd place	Team U-19 European Championship
2007	Team Polish Champion
2004-2007, 2014	Danish League

Patrick Hald Hougaard (born 23 May 1989) ^{[1] [2]} is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Denmark, who was a member of Denmark U-21 national team. ^{[3] [4]}

Career

Patrick Hougaard was born in Fredericia to parents Søren and Dorthe. He has two brothers Casper and Nicklas. ^[1]

Hougaard won the Danish Under-21 championship in 2007, and first raced in the UK towards the end of the 2007 season, for Reading Racers. ^[5] He signed for the Belle Vue Aces midway through the 2008 season on leaving school. ^[6] He again won the Danish Under-21 title in 2009 and was part of the Danish team that won the under-21 team cup in 2010. ^[5] He stayed with Belle Vue until the end of the 2012 season, joining Peterborough Panthers in 2013. ^[7]

In December 2013 he signed to ride for Leicester Lions in their debut Elite League season in 2014. ^{[8] [9]} He also signed to ride in Poland for Polonia Bydgoszcz. ^[10]

In 2023, he was the team manager of Slangerup. ^[11]

Speedway Grand Prix results

2008 SGP
	Grand Prix	Pos.	Pts.	Heats	Draw
—	Copenhagen	18	-	-	18

2009 SGP
	Grand Prix	Pos.	Pts.	Heats	Draw
—	Copenhagen				17

	permanent speedway rider
	wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
	rider not classified (track reserve who did not start)

World Championships

• Individual U-21 World Championship (Under-21 World Championship)
  • 2007 - 10th place in Semi-final 2
  • 2008 - Pardubice - 8th place (8 pts)
  • 2009 - Goričan - 3rd place (12+2 pts)
• Team U-21 World Championship (Under-21 Speedway World Cup)
  • 2005 - Pardubice - 3rd place (2 pts)
  • 2006 - started in Qualifying Round 1 only
  • 2007 - 2nd place in Qualifying Round 1
  • 2008 - Holsted - Runner-up (16 pts)
  • 2009 - Gorzów Wlkp. - Runner-up (14 pts)
  • 2010 - Rye House - Under-21 World Champion (11 pts)

European Championships

• Individual European Championship
  • 2007 - Wiener Neustadt - 3rd place (11 pts)
  • 2008 - 12th place in Semi-Final 1
• Individual U-19 European Championship
  • 2006 - Goričan - 16th place (3 pts)
  • 2007 - Częstochowa - 13th place (5 pts)
  • 2008 - Stralsund - 4th place (11 pts)
• Team U-19 European Championship
  • 2008 - Rawicz - 3rd place (13 pts)

Domestic competitions

• Individual Danish Championship
  • 2005 - 11th place
  • 2006 - 9th place
  • 2007 - 9th place
  • 2008 - 7th place
• Individual U-21 Danish Championship
  • 2005 - 3rd place
  • 2006 - Runner-up
  • 2007 - Danish Champion
  • 2008 - Runner-up
  • 2009 Danish Champion
• Individual U-19 Nordic Championship
  • 2006 - Nordic Champion
• Danish Speedway League
  • 2004 - Danish Champion for team with Holsted
  • 2005 - Danish Champion for team with Holsted
  • 2006 - Danish Champion for team with Fredericia
  • 2007 - Danish Champion for team with Holsted
• Team Polish Championship (Speedway Ekstraliga)
  • 2007 - Polish Champion with Unia Leszno

See also

• Denmark national speedway team
• List of Speedway Grand Prix riders

References

1. www.ddnp.co.uk ^{[ permanent dead link ]}. Retrieved on 2008-07-04.
2. Świat Żużla, No 1 (77) / 2008, pages 32-33, ISSN   1429-3285
3. "2008 Rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
4. "Patrick Hougaard Dania". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
5. "2011 Rider Index", speedwaygb.co, retrieved 2011-11-13
6. "Speedway: Patrick Hougaard dealt Aces chance", Daily Mirror , 3 July 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2014
7. "Patrick Hougaard signs new Belle Vue Aces contract", BBC, 8 November 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2014
8. "Elite League Speedway: Leicester land Patrick Hougaard", Sky Sports, 14 December 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014
9. "Leicester Lions: Hougaard joins Doyle and Korneliussen", BBC, 12 December 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2014
10. "Patrick Hougaard zawodnikiem Polonii Bydgoszcz Archived 2014-03-24 at the Wayback Machine ", polsatsport.pl, 29 November 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2014
11. "The League Team". Slangerup Speedway. Retrieved 6 August 2023.