Eric Andersson (born 15 June 1984) is a former

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

rider from Sweden.

Career

Andersson came to prominence when he reached the final of the 2004 Speedway Under-21 World Championship. Eric Andersson riding for Oxford in 2007

Eric Andersson riding for Oxford in 2007

In 2006, he joined the

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to ride in the 2006 Elite League speedway season. The following season he resigned for the Cheetahs but the club withdrew from the league but Andersson continued to ride for Rospiggarna in Sweden and in

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in Poland. He rode one heat in 2007 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, when he replaced injured

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in Heat 19. After finishing his career in Britain Andersson concentrated on the

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. In 2000, the First Division was r ...

and rode from 2010 to 2014 for Kolejarz Rawicz in the

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and Polish Speedway Second League respectively.

Speedway Grand Prix results

Career details

World Championships

* Individual World Championship (

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) **

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- track reserve **

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- 37th place (0 points in one event) * Individual U-21 World Championship **

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

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- 13th place (5 points) * Team U-21 World Championship **

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- Runner-up (8 points)

European Championships

* Individual European Championship **

- Wiener Neustadt - track reserve * Individual U-19 European Championship **

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- 13th place (5 points) **

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- 10th place (6 points)

References