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Ernst Bøgh (13 January 1955 – 27 October 2024) was a Danish
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.


Speedway career

Born in
Fredericia Fredericia () is a town located in Fredericia Municipality in the southeastern part of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. The city is part of the Triangle Region Denmark, Triangle Region, which includes the neighbouring cities of Kolding and Vej ...
, Bøgh together with his older brother Kurt Bøgh was instrumental in helping to form the
Holsted Speedway Klub Holsted Speedway Klub or Holsted Tigers is a motorcycle speedway club from Holsted in the Vejen Municipality of Denmark, who compete in the Danish Speedway League. The team have won the Danish Speedway League title a record 15 times. Track The ...
in 1974. The pair rode for the club in the
Danish Speedway League The Danish Speedway League () or Danish Super League or Metal League as it is called today is the top division of motorcycle speedway in Denmark. In 1955, the idea of a Danish Tournament for teams surfaced. The Danish Speedway League began in ...
. Bøgh rode successfully in several countries before signing to ride for
Leicester Lions Leicester Lions are a speedway team which originally operated from 1968 until 1983Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). ''Homes of British Speedway''. and again from 2011. The team race at the Beaumont Park Stadium (or Hydroscand Arena for sponsorsh ...
in the
British League The British League was the main motorcycle speedway league in Britain from its formation in 1965 until 1995 when British speedway was restructured. It initially had a single division, with a British League Division Two, second division starting i ...
in 1976, becoming the first Dane to ride for the Lions.Jones, Alan (2010) ''Speedway in Leicester: The Lions Roar'', Automedia, p. 159 After struggling to be competitive he was released after riding in eleven matches. He subsequently signed for
Sheffield Tigers The Sheffield Tigers (sponsored by Tru Plant) are a motorcycle speedway team based in Sheffield, England. They currently race in the British SGB Premiership, and their home meetings take place at Owlerton Stadium. They were founded in 1929 an ...
, but his tenure there was even shorter. Bøgh later prepared the track at the Moldow Speedway Arena and in 2018 opened a speedway museum.


Family

His brother Kurt Bøgh was also an international speedway rider.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bogh, Ernst 1955 births 2024 deaths Danish speedway riders Leicester Lions riders Sheffield Tigers riders Danish expatriate speedway riders in England Sportspeople from Fredericia Motorcycle races from the Region of Southern Denmark