Vojens Speedway Center
Opened | 21 September 1975 |
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Website | vojensspeedwaycenter |
The Vojens Speedway Center is a Motorcycle speedway track located in Vojens, Denmark.[1][2] The track has been part-owned since its opening by Denmark's first three time Speedway World Champion Ole Olsen.
Track
The Speedway Center is a 300 metres (330 yards) long track which opened in September 1975 and has a spectator capacity of approximately 15,000. Since its opening it has hosted numerous Danish national and international meetings including hosting the Danish Championship in 1977, 1979 and 1981.
World Championship meetings
The Speedway Center hosted the Speedway World Final in 1988 and again in 1994, the final time the World Championship was held in the single meeting format before the advent of the Speedway Grand Prix series in 1995. It hosted the Final of the World Pairs Championship in 1979 and 1993, the World Team Cup in 1983, 1986 (round 2 of 3), 1991 and 1998, as well as the World Cup in 2003, 2008 and 2010. The Center also hosted the Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark from 1995 until 2002 and has hosted the Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic (with the exception of 2013) since 2009.
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The Speedway Center has also twice hosted the
The rain was a future pointer to racing at Vojens with many meetings having to be postponed due to the weather. British television commentator
Speedway World Finals
Since its opening, the Vojens Speedway Center has hosted 13
The 1994 Individual World Final, the last time the championship was run as a single meeting, saw a three-way runoff for the championship with Sweden's Tony Rickardsson defeating local favourite Hans Nielsen and the surprise of the meeting, Australia's Craig Boyce. This was the first of Rickardsson's record-equalling 6 World Championships, a record he jointly holds with New Zealand's Ivan Mauger.
The Vojens Speedway Center was announced as the host track for the Race-Off and Final of the 2015 Speedway World Cup. The Danish team, which received automatic qualification into the Final as the host nation, were unsuccessful in defending the title they had won the 2014 title in Poland with Sweden emerging victorious by 2 points over the Danes with Poland and Australia finishing in 3rd and 4th.[3]
Individual World Championship
- 1988 - Erik Gundersen - 14+3pts
- 1994 - Tony Rickardsson - 12+3pts
World Pairs Championship
- 1979 - Denmark (Ole Olsen / Hans Nielsen) - 25pts
- 1993 - Sweden (Tony Rickardsson / Per Jonsson / Henrik Gustafsson) - 26pts
World Team Cup
- 1983 - Denmark (Erik Gundersen / Hans Nielsen / Ole Olsen / Peter Ravn / Finn Thomsen) - 32pts
- 1986* - Denmark (Hans Nielsen / Erik Gundersen / Tommy Knudsen / Jan O. Pedersen / John Jørgensen) - 130pts
- 1991 - Denmark (Jan O. Pedersen / Hans Nielsen / Tommy Knudsen / Gert Handberg / Brian Karger) - 51pts
- 1998 - United States (Billy Hamill / Greg Hancock / Sam Ermolenko) - 28pts
* Vojens hosted Round 2 of the 3 round 1986 World Team Cup Final
World Cup
- 2003 - Sweden (Andreas Jonsson / Mikael Max / Peter Ljung / Peter Karlsson / David Ruud) - 62pts
- Hans N. Andersen) - 49pts
- 2010 - Poland (Rune Holta / Jarosław Hampel / Tomasz Gollob / Adrian Miedziński / Janusz Kołodziej) - 44pts
- 2015 - Sweden (Antonio Lindbäck / Andreas Jonsson / Linus Sundström / Fredrik Lindgren) - 34pts
Speedway of Nations
- 2022 - Australia (Jack Holder / Max Fricke)
Individual Under-21 World Championship
- 1977 - Alf Busk - 9pts
- 1999 - Lee Richardson- 13pts
Speedway Grand Prix
Vojens has hosted 13 SGP events since 1995.
- 1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Hans Nielsen
- 1996 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Billy Hamill
- 1997 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Mark Loram
- 1998 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Hans Nielsen
- 1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Tony Rickardsson
- 2000 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Greg Hancock
- 2001 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Tony Rickardsson
- 2002 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Tony Rickardsson
- 2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic - - Andreas Jonsson
- 2010 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic - - Tomasz Gollob
- 2011 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic - - Greg Hancock
- 2012 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic - - Michael Jepsen Jensen
- 2014 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic - - Andreas Jonsson
- 2019 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark - - Bartosz Zmarzlik
References
- ^ Official Site
- ^ "Vojens (Denmark)". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ 2015 Speedway World Cup Final results