The Motodrom Halbemond is a 34,000-capacity
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 ...
stadium in
Halbemond, located about 5 kilometres southeast of
Norden
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, Germany. There is a motocross course adjacent to the stadium directly east of the Motodrom.
The venue is used by the speedway team
MC Norden, who compete in the German Bundesliga.
History
The Motodrom was first used as a sports facility in 1972.
[ It hosted the final of the 1975 Speedway World Team Cup.
In 1983, the stadium underwent significant renovation in time to host the 1983 Individual Speedway World Championship. The final attracted a record 50,000 crowd and German rider ]Egon Müller
Egon Müller (born 26 November 1948) is a German former motorcycle speedway rider. He won the Speedway World Championship in 1983, winning the title in his homeland with a maximum score of 15 points. He earned 44 international caps for the W ...
became the world champion.
During the 1990s public interest in speedway in Germany waned, which resulted in the track lying idle for several years. Since the turn of the millennium, speedway has taken place regularly again, including international competitions and German Individual Speedway Championship events.
References
Speedway venues in Germany
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