Peter Glanz

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Peter Glanz
Born3 May 1962 (1962-05-03) (age 62)
Fredericia, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Career history
Denmark
1987–1992 Frederica
Great Britain
1983–1987, 1993 Reading Racers
1988 Wolverhampton Wolves
1989 Mildenhall Fen Tigers
1990–1992 Milton Keynes Knights
1993 Oxford Cheetahs
Individual honours
1989 league pairs silver

Peter Lybaek Glanz (born 3 May 1962) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Denmark. [1] [2] [3]

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Career

Glanz started his British leagues career during the 1983 British League season, where he rode for Reading Racers. [3] [4] He continued to ride for Reading for five years and became an integral part of their team during that period. [3] He went on to earn three caps for the Denmark national speedway team.

In 1988, he joined four other fellow Danes at Wolverhampton Wolves for the 1988 British League season following problems with a deal with the King's Lynn Stars. [5] In 1989, he moved down a division to join Mildenhall Fen Tigers in 1989. He finished runner up in the British League Division Two Pairs Championship, with Preben Eriksen (who had also joined Mildenhall from Wolves) for the 1989 National League season. [3]

He switched to Milton Keynes Knights in 1990 and despite being the teams's top scorer the Knights finished last. He was part of the Milton Keynes team for the following two seasons but the team withdrew during the 1992 British League Division Two season. [6] For his final season in Britain he returned to Reading in one of the reserve berths. [3]

Family

His son Nicki Jens Glanz was also a speedway rider. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Oakes, Peter (1990). Speedway Yearbook 1990, rider bio Peter Glanz. Front Page Books. p. 18. ISBN   0-948882-15-8.
  2. ↑ Oakes, Peter (2004). British Speedway Who's Who, Profile Peter Glanz. Peter Oakes, Peterborough. ISBN   0-948882-81-6.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022, Peter Glanz" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  4. ↑ "Peter Glanz". WWOS Backup. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  5. ↑ "Glanz looks back in anger" . Reading Evening Post. 28 May 1988. Retrieved 26 August 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Milton Keynes...The Last Season". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 15 May 2023.


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