The 1999 Swedish speedway season was the 1999 season of

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 ...

in Sweden.

Individual

Individual Championship

The 1999 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held in Norrkoping on 4 September.

Tony Rickardsson Jan Tony Sören Rickardsson (born on 17 August 1970) is a Swedish former professional motorcycle speedway rider. He competed in the Speedway World Championships from 1989 to 2006 and won six Speedway World Championship titles in 15 attempts. ...

won the Swedish Championship for the fifth time and third year in a row. Key *points per race - 3 for a heat win, 2 for 2nd, 1 for third, 0 for last *+3 won race off, +2 2nd in race off, +1, 3rd in race off, +0 last in race off *ef - engine failure *t - tape touching excluded *u - fell *w - excluded

U21 Championship

Joonas Kylmäkorpi Joonas Nikolai Kylmäkorpi (born 14 February 1980) is a Finnish former motorcycle speedway rider and is a four times Individual Long Track World Championship, Long Track World Champion. He earned 12 caps for the Finland national speedway team. ...

won the U21 championship.

Team

Team Championship

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. ...

won the

Elitserien Elitserien (literally, "the Elite League") is the name of several Swedish nationwide sport leagues. In many sports, Elitserien is the highest league, with the second highest named Allsvenskan. Elitserien leagues at present: * Elitserien (badmint ...

and were declared the winners of the

Swedish Speedway Team Championship The Swedish Speedway Team Championship is the team championship of motorcycle speedway, speedway in Sweden. History The Championship was introduced in 1950. In 1982 the Championship was renamed with a new league called the Elitserien (speedwa ...

for the second successive year. The Valsarna team included

Rune Holta Rune Holta (born 29 August 1973 in Stavanger, Norway) is a speedway rider. He grew up in Randaberg, Norway, but has been a Polish citizen since 2002. Career In 1994, Holta finished runner-up to Mikael Karlsson in the final of the 1994 Spee ...

Sam Ermolenko Guy Allen Ermolenko (born November 23, 1960 Maywood, California) is a former motorcycle speedway rider. During his career he was known as Sam Ermolenko. In 1993, he won the Speedway World Championship. Career Early career After originally ...

Stefan Dannö Stefan Kjell Dannö (born 10 February 1969) is a Swedish former international speedway rider who rode in the Speedway World Championship. He earned 5 caps for the Sweden national speedway team. Career Dannö rode for the Eastbourne Eagles in t ...

and Mikael Karlsson. A change in the league structure saw the introduction of the

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system. Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...

, which would form the division below the Elitserien the following season. In 1999 however, it was an additional league competition for teams finishing in the top four of division 1.

References

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