Steffen Mell (born 12 June 1978 in

Teterow Teterow () is a town of Germany, in the Rostock (district), district of Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is the geographical center of this federal state. It had a population of 8,852 in 2011. History The ''Stadtkirche St. Peter u ...

) 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. He earned two international caps for the German national speedway team.

Career

Mell first rode in the United Kingdom, riding with the

Trelawny Tigers Trelawny Tigers operated as a British Premier League speedway team from 2001 to 2003 at the Clay Country Moto Parc in St Austell, Cornwall, England. History At the end of the 2000 speedway season a team called St Austell Gulls handed their ...

in the

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. He joined Newcastle in 2003. He won the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...

with

Güstrow Güstrow (; ) is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern Germany. It is capital of the Rostock (district), Rostock district; Rostock itself is a district-free city and regiopolis. It has a population of 28,999 (2020) and is the sevent ...

in 2003. He has represented

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in the 2001 and 2002

Speedway World Cup The Speedway World Cup is a motorcycle speedway event for national teams held in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old Speedway World Team Cup, World Team Cup which ...

World Championships

* Team World Championship (

) **

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

– - 10th place ''(0 points in Qualifying round 1)'' **

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

– - 12th place ''(0 points in Qualifying round 1)''

European Championships

* European Club Champions' Cup ** ''

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

– 3rd place in Group A (8 points for MC Güstrow)''

References

1978 births Living people German speedway riders Berwick Bandits riders Trelawny Tigers riders King's Lynn Stars riders German expatriate speedway riders in England Newcastle Diamonds riders People from Teterow Sportspeople from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania {{Germany-speedway-bio-stub