Smedstadion or Gröndals Motorstadion 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 ...
stadium located outside of
Eskilstuna
Eskilstuna () is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The city of Eskilstuna had 67,359 inhabitants in 2015, with a total population of 100,092 inhabitants in Eskilstuna municipality (2014). Eskilstuna h ...
, Sweden. The stadium was opened in 2002 and is the home arena of
Elitserien team
Smederna
Smederna is a motorcycle speedway club based in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The club competes in the highest speedway league in Sweden called the Elitserien and race its home matches at Smedstadion outside Eskilstuna. Ikaros Smederna was formerly known ...
who compete in the
Swedish Speedway Team Championship
The Swedish Speedway Team Championship is the team championship of speedway in Sweden.
Season by season
History
The Championship was introduced in 1950.
In 1982 the Championship was renamed with a new league called the Elitserien being int ...
.
History
The stadium was opened on 27 April 2002. The stadium was formerly known as Ikarosstadion from 2008 to 2009 due to sponsorship reasons from the company Ikaros.
The stadium has hosted a World Championship round called the
Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and the
Swedish Individual Speedway Championship
The Swedish Individual Championship is a competition for Swedish Speedway riders, held each year to determine the Swedish national champion.
Previous winners
Medals classification
References
Speedway competitions in Sweden
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in 2002.
The track record was broken in 2019 by Polish rider
Kacper Woryna (57.2 sec) but it was bettered again in 2022 by Dan Bewley, who recorded 56.8 sec.
References
Speedway venues in Sweden
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