Sweden national speedway team

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The Sweden national speedway team are one of the major teams in international motorcycle speedway.

History

The Sweden speedway team has won the Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup on ten occasions and were a major force in the opening years of the tournament, winning four out of the first five, between 1960 and 1964. Key riders of the period were Ove Fundin, Rune Sörmander, Björn Knutson, Göte Nordin and Sören Sjösten.[1][2][3]

The cup eluded them for 23 years between 1971 and 1993, but they regained the trophy in 1994, when Tony Rickardsson, Henrik Gustafsson and Mikael Karlsson were successful.[4] Sweden bookended the original World Team Cup, winning the inaugural final at the Ullevi Stadium at home in Göteborg, in 1960 before winning the last World Team Cup in 2000 at the Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England.[5]

They also went on to win in 2003 and 2004 and 2015. Additionally, they won the defunct Speedway World Pairs Championship five times.[6]

Major tournament wins

World Team Championships

Year Venue Standings (Pts) Sweden Riders and Pts
1960 Template:Flagicon
Göteborg
Ullevi 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (44)
2. Template:Flagicon England (30)
3. Template:Flagicon Czechoslovakia (15)
4. Template:Flagicon Poland (7) 		Ove Fundin 12
Olle Nygren 12
Rune Sörmander 11
Björn Knutson 9
Göte Nordin -
1962 Template:Flagicon
Slaný
Slaný Stadium 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (36)
2. Template:Flagicon Great Britain (24)
3. Template:Flagicon Poland (20)
4. Template:Flagicon Czechoslovakia (16) 		Björn Knutson 10
Sören Sjösten 10
Ove Fundin 9
Göte Nordin 4
Rune Sörmander 3
1963 Template:Flagicon
Vienna
Stadion Wien 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (37)
2. Template:Flagicon Czechoslovakia (27)
3. Template:Flagicon Great Britain (25)
4. Template:Flagicon Poland (7) 		Bjorn Knutson 11
Per Olof Söderman 10
Ove Fundin 7
Göte Nordin 6
Rune Sörmander 3
1964 Template:Flagicon
Abensberg
Abensberg Stadion 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (34)
2. Template:Flagicon Soviet Union (25)
3. Template:Flagicon Great Britain (21)
4. Template:Flagicon Poland (16) 		Björn Knutson 11
Göte Nordin 10
Rune Sörmander 7
Ove Fundin 6
Sören Sjösten 0
1967 Template:Flagicon
Malmö
Malmö Stadion 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (32)
2. Template:Flagicon Poland (26)
3. Template:Flagicon Great Britain (19)
= Template:Flagicon Soviet Union (19) 		Göte Nordin 11
Bengt Jansson 9
Ove Fundin 6
Torbjörn Harrysson 6
Per Olof Söderman -
1970 Template:Flagicon
London
Wembley Stadium 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (42)
2. Template:Flagicon Great Britain (31)
3. Template:Flagicon Poland (20)
4. Template:Flagicon Czechoslovakia (3) 		Ove Fundin 11
Bengt Jansson 11
Anders Michanek 10
Sören Sjösten 10
Bernt Persson -
1994 Template:Flagicon
Brokstedt
Holsteinring Brokstedt 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (23)
2. Template:Flagicon Poland (20)
3. Template:Flagicon Denmark (17)
4. Template:Flagicon Australia (17)
5. Template:Flagicon USA (17)
6. Template:Flagicon Germany (16)
= Template:Flagicon England (16) 		Tony Rickardsson 12+2
Henrik Gustafsson 11+2
Mikael Karlsson -
2000 Template:Flagicon
Coventry
Brandon Stadium 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (40)
2. Template:Flagicon England (40)
3. Template:Flagicon USA (35)
4. Template:Flagicon Australia (29) 		Tony Rickardsson 16
Henrik Gustafsson 12+2
Peter Karlsson 10+1
Mikael Karlsson 2
Niklas Klingberg 0
2003 Template:Flagicon
Vojens
Vojens Speedway Center 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (62)
2. Template:Flagicon Australia (57)
3. Template:Flagicon Denmark (53)
4. Template:Flagicon Poland (49)
5. Template:Flagicon Great Britain (44) 		Mikael Max 19+2
Andreas Jonsson 12
Peter Karlsson 10
Peter Ljung 10
David Ruud 5
2004 Template:Flagicon
Poole
Poole Stadium 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (49)
2. Template:Flagicon Great Britain (48)
3. Template:Flagicon Denmark (32)
4. Template:Flagicon Poland (23) 		Peter Karlsson 12
Tony Rickardsson 12
Antonio Lindbäck 9
Mikael Max 9
Andreas Jonsson 7
2015 Template:Flagicon
Vojens
Vojens Speedway Center 		1. Template:Flagicon Sweden (34)
2. Template:Flagicon Denmark (32)
3. Template:Flagicon Poland (27)
4. Template:Flagicon Australia (26) 		Andreas Jonsson 12
Freddie Lindgren 11
Antonio Lindbäck 7
Linus Sundström 4

Titles

Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check World Champions
1960 (1st title) Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
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1962 (2nd title)
1963 (3rd title)
1964 (4th title) Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check World Champions
1967 (5th title) Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check World Champions
1970 (6th title) Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check World Champions
1994 (7th title) Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check World Champions
2000 (8th title) Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check World Champions
2003 (9th title)
2004 (10th title) Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
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2015 (11th title) Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

World Pairs Championship

Year Riders
1968 Ove Fundin & Torbjörn Harrysson
1973 Anders Michanek & Tommy Jansson
1974 Anders Michanek & Sören Sjösten
1975 Anders Michanek & Tommy Jansson
1993 Tony Rickardsson, Per Jonsson & Henrik Gustafsson

International caps (as of 2022)

Since the advent of the Speedway Grand Prix era, international caps earned by riders is largely restricted to international competitions, whereas previously test matches between two teams were a regular occurrence. This means that the number of caps earned by a rider has decreased in the modern era.[7]

Rider Caps
Andersson, Åke 7
Andersson, Bengt Olof 2
Andersson, Björn 10
Andersson, Daniel 1
Andersson, Jan 39
Andersson, Stefan 6
Bengtsson, Lennart 5
Bergqvist, Tommy 2
Blixt, Mikael 18
Brannefors, Bengt 20
Brannefors, Pierre 14
Carlsson, Arne 17
Danielsson, Hasse 15
Dannö, Roland 10
Dannö, Stefan 5
Davidsson, Jan-Olov 9
Davidsson, Jonas 14
Enecrona, Leif 16
Eriksson, Anders 8
Eriksson, Freddie 1
Forsberg, Birger 19
Forsberg, Dan 17
Fundin, Ove 99
Gerhardsson, Per Ake 1
Gustafsson, Henka 50
Harrysson, Torbjörn 26
Hellsen, Richard 22
Henriksson, Terje 3
Holmqvist, Hasse 30
Hultberg, Lars-Inge 1
Hultgren, Jurgen Per Gunnar 2
Ivarsson, Conny 40
Jansson, Bengt 107
Jansson, Lars 8
Jansson, Tommy 52
Johansson, Jorgen 12
Johansson, Tommy 32
Johansson, Lillebror 5
Johansson, Stefan 3
Johansson, Uno Ingemar 3
Jonasson, Thomas 4
Jonsson, Alfe Folke 10
Jonsson, Andreas 26
Jonsson, Per 65
Josefsson, Bo 13
Karlsson, Magnus 1
Karlsson, Niklas 4
Karlsson, Peter 40
Karlsson, Sören 29
Karlsson, Sune 7
Klingberg, Börje 5
Klingberg, Niklas 11
Knutson, Björn 42
Larsson, Bengt 26
Larsson, Leif 14
Lindbäck, Antonio 17
Lindgren, Freddie 19
Ljung, Peter 6
Löfqvist, Christer 42
Löfqvist, Dennis 7
Malmqvist, Gunnar 13
Max, Mikael 21
Michanek, Anders 101
Nahlin, Peter 32
Nermark, Daniel 5
Nilsen, Jimmy 53
Nilsson, Tommy 65
Nordin, Göte 45
Nygren, Olle 90
Nystrom, Kenneth 6
Olsson, Tony 26
Persson, Bernt 102
Pettersson, Tommy 7
Rickardsson, Tony 43
Ringstrom, Nils 4
Rohlén, Christer 2
Ruud, David 6
Salomonsson, Stefan 5
Samuelsson, Conny 9
Segerstrom, Olle 2
Simensen, Jan 25
Sjösten, Christer 8
Sjösten, Sören 76
Smith, Peter 1
Soderberg, Leif 1
Söderman, Peo 44
Sörmander, Rune 66
Stenlung, Erik 25
Svensson, Per Tage 14
Teurnberg, Mikael 9
Wahlmann, Leif 2
Wedin, Runo 1
Wirebrand, Bo 16
Zetterström, Magnus 3

References

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