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Arnt Førland
Arnt Førland (born 10 July 1964) is a Norwegian former international motorcycle speedway rider, who rode in 2004 Speedway Grand Prix of Norway and is a three-time Norwegian champion. He represented the Norway national speedway team during the final of the 1995 Speedway World Team Cup. Career In 1989, he won the Scandinavian Longtrack championship. Førland was a three-time champion of Norway, winning the Norwegian Championship in 1989, 2004 and 2005. As part of the Speedway World Championships, he competed in the Nordic Speedway final on multiple occasions. On 29 September 2013, he was taken to hospital following a serious crash, riding for his Swedish team Valsarna during the 2013 Swedish speedway season. Speedway Grand Prix result References See also * Norway national speedway team * List of Speedway Grand Prix riders This is a complete list of riders who have entered a Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, FIM Speedway Grand Prix since 1995. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandnes
Sandnes () is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It lies immediately south of Stavanger, the 4th largest municipality in Norway, and together the Stavanger/Sandnes area is the third-largest urban area in Norway. The urban city of Sandnes lies in the extreme western part of the vast municipality and it makes up about 5% of the total land area of the municipality. Sandnes is part of the traditional Districts of Norway, district of Jæren. The western part of the municipality is very urbanized while the eastern part of the municipality is very rural. The municipality is divided into 13 boroughs and the administrative centre is located in the borough of Trones og Sentrum, a borough in the city. There are several villages in the rural parts of the municipality including Hommersåk, Høle, Foss-Eikeland, Stokka, Sandnes, Stokka, Forsand (village), Forsand, Lysebotn, and Vatne, Rogaland, Vatne. The municipality is the 109th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elgane
Elgane is a motorcycle speedway and motocross stadium near Varhaug in Norway. The stadium is situated approximately 6 kilometres east of Varhaug, on the Elgane road. The venue has previously been listed as being part of Stavanger but although both are in Rogaland county, Elgane is 50 kilometres south of Stavanger. The facility is run by the Motorsykkel Elgane Klubb and is one of Norway's leading motorcycle speedway venues. History Initially the venue was used by the team NMK Stavanger until MK Elgane took over the running of the facility. It was and still is, a significant venue for important motorcycle speedway events. It held qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship, starting in 1979 and qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Team Cup in 1982 and 1992. The track held the final of the 1994 Speedway Under-21 World Championship. Additionally, it was the only Norwegian track to host the Intercontinental final in 1995 and has been selected for the final of the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valsarna
Valsarna is a motorcycle speedway club from Tallhult, Hagfors in Sweden, who compete in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. Their home track is at the Tallhult Motorstadion which is located to the North of Hagfors on the road to Geijersholm. They are twice league champions of Sweden. History 1967–1976 Valsarna Speedway Club was founded on 11 October 1967. They first participated in the Swedish leagues during the 1970 Swedish speedway season, competing in division 3 west, and they won their first honours the following season in 1971 Swedish speedway season, 1971, after winning the same division. After four years in division 2, they dropped out for the league. 1981–1993 The club returned to league action in 1981 Swedish speedway season, 1981 and spent the decade in the second tier before finally earning promotion during the 1993 Swedish speedway season. 1994–1999 For their first season in the Elitserien (speedway), Elitserien they signed one of the world's leading rider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Individual Speedway Championship
The Individual Speedway Norwegian Championship is an annual speedway event held each year organised by the Norges Motorsportforbund (NMF). The first championship was held in 1938 in Trondheim and saw Ragnar C. Erichsen as winner. History Lars Gunnestad has won the highest number of championships with ten victories between 1988 and 2003. The final of the Norwegian Championship regularly doubled up as the Norwegian qualification round for the Speedway World Championship from 1952 until 1975. If the Norwegian final was held in the Summer months, the qualification would be for the following year's World Championship. Key Unless stated all riders are Norwegian. Past winners ''The list is incomplete'' See also * Norway national speedway team * Speedway Grand Prix of Norway References {{Reflist Speedway in Norway Norway Speedway Speedway may refer to: Racing Race tracks *Daytona International Speedway, a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida. *Edmonton Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 use only one gear and have no brakes. Racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of soil, dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock (mostly used in Australia and New Zealand). Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track, the motorcycles reach speeds of up to . There are now both domestic and international competitions in a number of countries, including the Speedway World Cup, whilst the highest overall scoring individual in the Speedway Grand Prix events is pronounced the world champion. Speedway is popular in Central Europe, Central and Northern Europe and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. A variant of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speedway Grand Prix Of Norway
The Speedway Grand Prix of Norway is a speedway event that was a part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. Winners References See also {{DEFAULTSORT:Speedway Grand Prix Of Norway Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ... Motorsport in Norway Grand Prix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway National Speedway Team
The Norway national speedway team are one of the teams that compete in international team motorcycle speedway. History The Norwegian speedway team competed in the inaugural Speedway World Team Cup in 1960, finishing third in the Scandinavian round at Odense, Denmark. The team consisted of Aage Hansen, Rolf Mellerud, Nils Paulsen, Rolf Westerberg and Sverre Harrfeldt. From 1960 to 1985, the team failed to qualify from their qualifying group during the World Cup, due to the fact that they were drawn together in qualifying with two of the world's strongest speedway nations, Denmark and Sweden. They did however win a bronze medal at the 1968 Speedway World Pairs Championship. The World Team Cup system changed in 1986 but it was not until the 1991 Speedway World Team Cup that the team progressed from qualifying to round two. During the same year of 1991, the team equalled their greatest feat, when winning a bronze medal at the 1991 Speedway World Pairs Championship. The nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Speedway World Team Cup
The 1995 Speedway World Team Cup was the 36th edition of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final took place at the Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium in Poland. Hans Nielsen (speedway rider), Hans Nielsen (paired with Tommy Knudsen) won his tenth gold medal and in the process sent Denmark to their tenth title success and clear of England in the all time winners list. First round * 4 June 1995 * Stroitel Stadium (Tolyatti), Stroitel Stadium, Tolyatti, Togliatti Ukraine and Latvia to second round Second round * 2 July 1995 * Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško Norway and Ukraine to third round Third round * 26 August 1995 * Rottalstadion, Pocking England and Norway to World final World Final * 24 September 1995 * Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium, Bydgoszcz See also * 1995 Speedway Grand Prix References {{Speedway World Cup seasons Speedway World Team Cup 1995 in speedway, World T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Swedish Speedway Season
The 2013 Swedish speedway season was the 2013 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden. Individual Individual Championship The 2013 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held in Vetlanda on 30 August. Andreas Jonsson won the Swedish Championship for the sixth time. Key *points per race - 3 for a heat win, 2 for 2nd, 1 for third, 0 for last *r - retired U21 Championship Fredrik Engman won the U21 championship. Team Team Championship Piraterna won the Elitserien and were declared the winners of the Swedish Speedway Team Championship for the second time. Rospiggarna won the Allsvenskan. Play offs *Final - Griparna/Hammarby v Malilla (48–36, 41–43) References {{International speedway Speedway competitions in Sweden Speedway leagues Professional sports leagues in Sweden Swedish speedway Speedway may refer to: Racing Race tracks *Daytona International Speedway, a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida. *Edmonton Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Speedway Grand Prix Riders
This is a complete list of riders who have entered a Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, FIM Speedway Grand Prix since 1995. ''After 2015 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia, 2015 Scandinavian SGP in Stockholm (26 September 2015)'' Index A * Leigh Adams * Zoltán Adorján * Sebastian Aldén * Stefano Alfonso * Brian Andersen * Hans N. Andersen * Dennis Andersson * Eric Andersson * Stefan Andersson (speedway rider), Stefan Andersson #Index, (back to index) B * Tomasz Bajerski (speedway rider), Tomasz Bajerski * Damian Balinski * Robert Barth (speedway rider), Robert Barth * Troy Batchelor * Luke Becker * Daniel Bewley * Kenneth Bjerre * Lasse Bjerre * Maksims Bogdanovs * Craig Boyce * Bohumil Brhel * Krzysztof Buczkowski * Jason Bunyan #Index, (back to index) C * Mattia Carpanese * Armando Castagna * Krzysztof Cegielski * Tomasz Chrzanowski * Hans Clausen * Aleksander Conda * Craig Cook * Nicolas Covatti * Marvyn Cox * Jason Crump * Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motors, Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day (Panama), Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
