Eduard Musfirovich Shaihullin (20 October 1974 – 6 June 2020) was 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 was a member of

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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Career

Shaihullin spent two years 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 2001 to 2002. Shaihullin won the bronze medal at the Russian national championship in 1998 and 2000. Shaihullin represented Russia at two

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s in 2001, when they reached the race-off and the following year in 2002, when they were eliminated in event 3. After his riding career, he worked for the Oktyabrsky club and became the club's president, a role he served until the end of 2013. He died on 6 June 2020, aged 45.

Honours

World Championships

* Team World Championship (

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– – 8th place (3 pts in Race-off) **

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

– – 9th place (1 pt in Event 3)

European Championships

* European Club Champions' Cup **

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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Piła Piła (; ) is a city in northwestern Poland and the capital of Piła County, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Its population was 71,846, making it the city in the voivodeship after Poznań and Kalisz and the largest city in the north ...

– Runner-up (2 pts)

References

Russian speedway riders Place of birth missing Place of death missing 1974 births 2020 deaths {{Russia-speedway-bio-stub