World Final appearances
World Pairs Championship
- 1983 -
Göteborg, Ullevi (with Jan Andersson) - 5th - 16pts (4)
| Born | 30 December 1962 Gothenburg, Sweden |
|---|---|
| Died | 21 August 2019 (aged 56) |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Career history | |
| Sweden | |
| 1980-1985 | Kaparna |
| 1986 | Indianerna |
| Great Britain | |
| 1981 | King's Lynn Stars |
| 1983, 1984 | Reading Racers |
| Individual honours | |
| 1980 | Swedish U21 champion |
| Team honours | |
| 1983 | World Pairs finalist |
| 1984 | Elitserien Champion |
| 1980 | Allsvenskan Div 2 (South) Champion |
| 1982 | Allsvenskan Div 1 (South) Champion |
Pierre Bertil Brannefors (1962-2019) was a Swedish international speedway rider. [1] He earned 14 international caps for the Sweden national speedway team. [2]
Brannefors reached the final of the Speedway World Pairs Championship in the 1983 Speedway World Pairs Championship. [3] [4]
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1981 with the King's Lynn Stars [5] to 1984, riding for Reading Racers. [6] [7] He was also the 1980 Swedish Junior Champion. [1]
He starred with the brothers Björn Andersson and Jan Andersson, during Kaparna's league championship title win, during the 1984 Swedish speedway season. [8]
Göteborg, Ullevi (with Jan Andersson) - 5th - 16pts (4)His father Bengt Brannefors was also a professional speedway rider. [2]
Reading Racers are a British motorcycle speedway team. Formed in 1968, they won four British League titles during their history. The club closed in October 2008 after the lease on Smallmead Stadium was sold and the site was demolished. In 2016 a group of supporters reformed the team and have subsequently gone on to gain a place in the newly founded Southern Development League winning their debut season undefeated in 2017.
Hans Hollen Nielsen is a Danish former professional motorcycle speedway rider. He competed in the Speedway World Championships from 1977 to 1999. Nielsen is notable for winning four Speedway World Championship titles. During his career, he won a total of 22 world championships, making him arguably the most successful speedway rider of all time. In 2012, Nielsen was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements. He later managed the Danish national team.
William Robert Sanders was an Australian international Speedway rider who won six Australian Championships and was a five time Speedway World Championship finalist with a career best second place in West Germany in 1983.
Jimmy Nilsen is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Sweden. He earned 53 international caps for the Sweden national speedway team.
David John Jessup is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. He was a world championship runner-up, world pairs champion, world cup winner and British champion. He earned 97 international caps for the England national speedway team.
Per Christer Jonsson is a former speedway rider who won the Speedway World Championship in 1990, and finished runner-up in 1992. He earned 65 international caps for the Sweden national speedway team and also represented Sweden in the World Team Cup on seven occasions between 1985 and 1993.
Mitchell Owen Shirra is a New Zealand former motorcycle speedway rider who rode with the Coventry Bees, Reading Racers, Swindon Robins and Ipswich Witches in the British League. During his career he rode as and was better known as Mitch Shirra. He earned 17 caps for the New Zealand national speedway team.
Pavel Ondrašík is a Czech former motorcycle speedway rider.
John Kenneth Cook is an American former international motorcycle speedway rider. He was represented the USA in three World Team Cup finals and earned 49 caps for the United States national speedway team.
John Tony Olsson is a Swedish former international motorcycle speedway rider. He was a member of the Sweden speedway team when they finished third in the 1988 and 1989 World Team Cup finals. He also represented his country at Test level.
Bohumil Brhel is a Czech former motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 10 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team and 15 caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team.
The 1971 British League season was the 37th season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the seventh season known as the British League.
Jiří Štancl is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Czechoslovakia. He earned 39 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team.
The 1990 British League season was the 56th season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the 26th known as the British League.
John Rickard Hellsén also known as Richard Hellsen is a Swedish former international motor speedway rider.
Jan Hakan Andersson is a former speedway rider from Sweden. He earned 39 caps for the Sweden national speedway team.
Melvyn Roy Taylor is a former speedway rider from England.
The 1984 Swedish speedway season was the 1984 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.
Kaparna were a Swedish motorcycle speedway team that competed in the Swedish speedway leagues from 1949 to 2007. The team were last based at the Arendal Speedway Track, in Arendal, west of Gothenburg on the island of at Hisingen in Sweden. They were four times league champions of Sweden.
Bjorn Mikael Andersson is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Sweden. He earned 10 caps for the Sweden national speedway team.
 | This biographical article relating to Swedish speedway is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |