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Ludvig Lindgren (born 23 September 1990 in
Örebro Örebro ( ; ) is the seventh-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers inland along the small river Svartån, and ...
, Sweden) 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 ...
rider.


Career

Lindgren won the 2008 Team U-19 European Champion title. He was a member of Sweden U-21 and U-19 national teams. In August 2008 it was announced that Lindgren would join his brother
Freddie Lindgren Jan Fredrik Tobias (Freddie) Lindgren (born 15 September 1985) is a Swedish motorcycle speedway rider. He has won the silver medal and the bronze medal twice at the Speedway World Championship, in addition to the world team championship in 2015 ...
at
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in the British Elite League. In 2011 he joined
Berwick Bandits The Berwick Bandits are a British speedway club, based in Berwick-upon-Tweed. They currently compete in the SGB Championship, racing at Shielfield Park, with home matches usually taking place on Saturday evenings. They also run a second team ...
and in 2012 switched to Newcastle Diamonds, where he later became the club captain.


Family

His brother Freddie Lindgren also rides. His father Tommy Lindgren rode speedway and
ice speedway Ice speedway is a developed form of motorcycle speedway racing, featuring racing on frozen surfaces. The sport uses bikes enhanced for the terrain. Participants can compete at international level. Outline The bikes race counterclockwise arou ...
.Oakes, P.(2005). ''British Speedway Who's Who''.


Results


World Championships

* Individual U-21 World Championship **
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9th place (7 points) **
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17th place (1 point) * Team U-21 World Championship (Under-21 Speedway World Cup) **
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3rd place (5 points) **
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
Gorzów Wlkp. 3rd place (4 points)


European Championship

* Individual U-19 European Championship **''
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7th place in Semi-Final 2'' * Team U-19 European Championship **
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European Champion (10 points) **
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Runner-up (7 points)


Polish Championships

* Team Polish Championship (League) **
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
3rd place for
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See also

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Sweden national speedway team The Sweden national speedway team are one of the major teams in international motorcycle speedway. History The Sweden speedway team has won the Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup on ten occasions and were a major force in the open ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindgren, Ludvig 1990 births Living people Swedish speedway riders Team Speedway Junior European Champions Wolverhampton Wolves riders Swedish expatriate speedway riders in England Newcastle Diamonds riders Sportspeople from Örebro Indianerna riders Örnarna riders Dackarna riders Vargarna riders