Sweden national speedway team

Swedish national motorcycle speedway team

Sweden

Nation colour| Yellow
SWC Wins| 11
(1952, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1994, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2015)

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

## History

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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

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### World Team Championships

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Year  | Venue  | Standings (Pts)  | Sweden Riders and Pts

|
|
|

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

#### Titles

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Preceded by

Inaugural Champions

|  World Champions
1960 (1st title)  | Succeeded by

Poland

|
|

Preceded by

Poland

|  World Champions
1962 (2nd title)
1963 (3rd title)
1964 (4th title)  | Succeeded by

Poland

Preceded by

Poland

|  World Champions
1967 (5th title)  | Succeeded by

Great Britain

Preceded by

Poland

|  World Champions
1970 (6th title)  | Succeeded by

Great Britain

Preceded by

United States

|  World Champions
1994 (7th title)  | Succeeded by

Denmark

Preceded by

Australia

|  World Champions
2000 (8th title)  | Succeeded by

Australia

Preceded by

Australia

|  World Champions
2003 (9th title)
2004 (10th title)  | Succeeded by

Poland

Preceded by

Denmark

|  World Champions
2015 (11th title)  | Succeeded by

Poland

### World Pairs Championship

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Year  | Riders

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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)

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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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1. ^ Rogers, Martin (1978). The Illustrated History of Speedway. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. p. 134\. ISBN 0-904584-45-3.
2. ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 99\. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
3. ^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
4. ^ "1994 WORLD TEAM CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
5. ^ "FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP/ SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS" (PDF). Motor Sport Top 20. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
6. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. p. 290\. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
7. ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 6 October 2023.

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