Gislaved Motorbana or the OnePartnerGroup Arena (for sponsorship purposes) is a

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 ...

track in the southern outskirts of Gislaved. The track is located on the Reftelevägen 61 and surrounded by the Skogsmusen Solpark (a forest and hiking area). The stadium hosts the

Lejonen Lejonen () is a motorcycle speedway team from Gislaved, Sweden, Gislaved in Sweden, who compete in the Elitserien (speedway), Elitserien. Their home track is at the Gislaved Motorbana or the OnePartnerGroup Arena for sponsorship purposes, which ...

speedway team that compete in 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 ...

and have been champions of Sweden on two occasions.

History

The track was constructed in 1931 and opened on 10 July 1932, it is the oldest speedway tack in Sweden. Four years later in 1936, the track width was increased from 6 metres to 10 metres. The record attendance of 12,247 was set on 10 August 1947. The speedway track hosted the Nordic Speedway Final in 1961. During the 1980s, the track increased in size to 380 metres. and hosted the Scandinavian round of the

1983 Speedway World Team Cup The 1983 Speedway World Team Cup was the 24th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final took place at the Vojens Speedway Center in Denmark. The host country Denmark won their third title. Qu ...

. In 2007, the track decreased in size to 374 metres and one year later in 2008, the stadium became known as the Axelent Arena (for sponsorship purposes) It later became the OnePartnerGroup Arena (also for sponsorship purposes). In 2017, the track was changed to 368 metres and on 8 July 2021, Robert Lambert set a new track record of 62.5 seconds for the 368m distance. Most recently, the stadium hosted an SGP2 Qualification event in 2022 and then the Final of the 2023 FIM Speedway Grand Prix Qualifiers, the Grand Prix Challenge, to decide qualifiers for the 2024 Speedway Grand Prix Series. On 11 June 2024, Robert Lambert lowered his own track record to 62.2 seconds.https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionHeatSchema.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Season=2024&Serie=BAUHAUS%20Ligan&Resultfilter=APPROVED&Columns=FromDateShort,Name,HeatSchema,HeatResult&pagesize=20&Style=SvemoWebsite&CompetitionId=15549

References

Speedway venues in Sweden Sports venues in Jönköping County Gislaved Municipality 20th-century establishments in Jönköping County 1932 establishments in Sweden {{motorcycle-speedway-stub