Denis Damirovich Saifutdinov (; born 2 June 1981) is a Russian

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 who rode in the

2002 Speedway World Cup The 2002 Speedway World Cup (SWC) was the 2nd Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, FIM Speedway World Cup season. The final took place on 10 August 2002 in Peterborough, England. The tournament was won by Australia national speedway tea ...

for the

Russia national speedway team The Russia national speedway team are one of the major international motorcycle speedway nations. History As the Soviet Union The Soviet Union speedway team (which was composed predominantly of Russian riders but also Ukrainian, Latvian an ...

Career

Saifutdinov was born into a

Tatar Tatar may refer to: Peoples * Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" * Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia * Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ...

family. His parents are Damir and Tamara; his brother, Emil Saifutdinov (born 1989) is also a speedway rider. Denis Saifutdinov was 15th in the

2002 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship The 2002 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 26th edition of the World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. The final was won by Lukáš Dryml of the Czech Republic. World final *7 September 2002 * Slaný Speedway, S ...

and scored 2 points. Also in 2002, he represented the Russian team during the World Cup, finishing third in the event 3 qualifier. He spent four seasons racing in 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 ...

from 2005 to 2009.

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Denis&Emil Sayfutdinov Website
1981 births Living people Tatar people of Russia Russian speedway riders {{Russia-speedway-bio-stub

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