The 1950 Swedish speedway season was the 1950 season of
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 anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...
in Sweden.
Individual
Individual Championship
The 1950 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held on 20 October, in Stockholm.
Helge Brinkeback won the Swedish Championship.
Team
Team Championship
Filbyterna won division 1 and were declared the winners of 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 intro ...
for the second time.
Piraterna
Piraterna are a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Motala, Sweden. The club won their first Elitserien title in 2011, beating Indianerna
Indianerna (the Indians) are a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Kumla
Kumla is a Urb ...
won the A division of the newly created second-tier league. Saxarna won the B division and
Vetlanda
Vetlanda () is a locality and the seat of Vetlanda Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 13,050 inhabitants in 2010.
History
Vetlanda was still nothing more than a village for several centuries. With the 1840s population boom in Småland ...
won the C division.
Name changes this season included; SMK Stockholm who became Monarkerna, Smålänningarna who became Dackarna and GEMA who became Kaparna.
Two reserve sides also competed under the names of Gastarna (Kaparna B) and Husarerna (Indianerna).
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See also
* Speedway in Sweden
References
{{International speedway
Speedway leagues
Professional sports leagues in Sweden
Swedish
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Seasons in Swedish speedway