René Madsen (born 1 December 1972) 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 Denmark.

Career

Madsen came to prominence in 1991 when he won the silver medal at the Danish Under 21 Individual Speedway Championship behind Kim Brandt. He duly competed in the

Speedway Under-21 World Championship The Speedway Under-21 World Championship is an annual Motorcycle speedway, speedway event held each year organized by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) since 1977. As of 2022, the title ...

and reached the final of the 1992 Speedway Under-21 World Championship as the reserve. In 1993, he reached a second consecutive final and finished 13th in the

1993 Speedway Under-21 World Championship The 1993 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 17th edition of the World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. The final was won by Joe Screen of England after he defeated Mikael Karlsson in a run-off for the title. Wor ...

. The performances attracted interest from Britain and Madsen made his British leagues debut during the 1993 British League Division Two season, where he rode for

Oxford Cheetahs The Oxford Cheetahs are a British Motorcycle speedway, speedway teamLawson,K (2018) “Riders, Teams and Stadiums”. based at Oxford Stadium, in Oxford, England. They were founded in 1939 and are five times champions of Britain, in 1964 Speed ...

. In his third season with Oxford he performed in the top league during the

1995 Premier League speedway season The 1995 Premier League season was the 61st season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom. It was also the first for the new league, and the first of two seasons in which British speedway was competed as a single division. Summary ...

. In 1996, he signed for

Peterborough Panthers The Peterborough Panthers were a British motorcycle speedway team based in Peterborough, England from 1970 to 2023. They were three times List of United Kingdom speedway league champions, champions of the United Kingdom, winning the highest lev ...

and began to compete in longtrack. He reached the semi final of the

1998 Individual Long Track World Championship The 1998 Individual Long Track/Grasstrack World Championship was the 28th edition of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, FIM Motorcycle speedway, speedway Individual Long Track World Championship. The world title was won by Kelvin Ta ...

. His final season in Britain was with the

Stoke Potters The Stoke Potters previously the Hanley Potters were a British speedway team. As Hanley Potters they raced at the Sun Street Stadium from 1929 to 1963 and as Stoke, the team raced at Loomer Road Stadium in Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1973 to ...

in 2000.

References

Living people 1972 births Danish speedway riders Oxford Cheetahs riders Peterborough Panthers riders Danish expatriate speedway riders in England {{Speedway-stub