The 2002 Swedish speedway season was the 2002 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 2002 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held at the
Smedstadion
Eskilstuna Motorstadion, also known as Smedstadion or Gröndals Motorstadion is a motorcycle speedway stadium located outside of Eskilstuna, Sweden. The stadium was opened in 2002 and is the home arena of Elitserien team Smederna who compete in ...
in Eskilstuna on 17 August.
Niklas Klingberg
Niklas Johan Borje Klingberg (born 6 February 1973) is a Swedish former motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 11 caps for the Sweden national speedway team.
Career
Klingberg was a member of Sweden team at Speedway World Cups. He was Swedish C ...
won the Swedish Championship.
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
Freddie Eriksson
Freddie Ove Eriksson (born 23 April 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Sweden. He earned one cap for the Sweden national speedway team
The Sweden national speedway team are one of the major teams in interna ...
won the U21 championship.
Team
Team Championship
Rospiggarna
Rospiggarna is a motorcycle speedway team based in Hallstavik, Sweden. They ride in the Elitserien are five times champions of Sweden.
History 1930 to 1977
The club was founded in 1930 and were named Orion, although it did not compete in the S ...
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 fourth time and for the second successive season. The Rospiggarna team included
Greg Hancock
Gregory Alan Hancock (born June 3, 1970, in Whittier, California) is a former professional motorcycle speedway rider from the United States. As of 2023, he was one of only six riders to have won the individual World Championship four or more ti ...
,
Ryan Sullivan
Ryan Geoffrey Sullivan (born 20 January 1975, in Fitzroy, Victoria) is a former Australian international motorcycle speedway rider who has won the Australian Solo Championship, Australian Under-21 Speedway Championship, and Under-16 champi ...
and
Andreas Jonsson
Andreas Karl Rune Jonsson (born 3 September 1980 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish former international motorcycle speedway rider. He was a member of the Sweden speedway team that won the World Cup in 2003, 2004 and 2015.
He earned 26 caps for ...
.
Vetlanda
Vetlanda () is a locality and the seat of Vetlanda Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 13,050 inhabitants in 2010.
History
Vetlanda was still nothing more than a village for several centuries. With the 1840s population boom in Småland ...
won 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 ...
. Team Svelux became Luxo Stars and
Team Viking became Vikingarna.
Play offs
Play offs
See also
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Speedway in Sweden
Motorcycle speedway, Speedway in Sweden is one of the recognised 'four big leagues' in world speedway (along with Great Britain, Poland and Denmark). The Swedish leagues consists of three domestic leagues, an individual World Championship round of ...
References
{{International speedway
Speedway leagues
Professional sports leagues in Sweden
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
Seasons in Swedish speedway