Kim Patrik Jansson (born 30 October 1981) is a former
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 from Sweden.
Speedway career
Jansson rode in the top tier of British Speedway riding for the
Ipswich Witches
The Ipswich Witches are a British motorcycle speedway club based at Foxhall Stadium near Ipswich, Suffolk. They compete in the British SGB Premiership. Meetings are staged on most Thursdays from March until October, normally commencing at 7.30 ...
from 2002 to 2007, in the
Elite League.
On 16 August 2008, he crashed during a race in Sweden, while riding for
Team Bikab against
Filbyterna
Filbyterna were a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based at the old Linköping Motorstadion in Ryd (1948–1977) and the Linköping Motorstadion (1978–2010), near Linköping, Sweden. They were twice champions of Sweden.
History 1948 to 1958
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that left him paralysed.
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References
1981 births
Living people
Swedish speedway riders
Ipswich Witches riders
Swedish expatriate speedway riders in England
Sportspeople from Gothenburg
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