The 1960 Swedish speedway season was the 1960 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 1960 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held on 30 September in Stockholm. Ove Fundin won the Swedish Championship for the third time.

Swedish Junior Championship

Winner - Willihard Thomsson

Team

Team Championship

Vargarna Vargarna are a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Norrköping, Sweden. The team race at the Norrköpings Motorstadion. History The name Vargarna literally translates into English as "The Wolves". The team won the Swedish Speedway Team Cha ...

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 fifth time. The Vargarna team contained

Olle Nygren Harald Olof "Olle" Ingemar Nygren (11 November 1929 – 13 February 2021) was a Swedish speedway rider who reached the finals of the Speedway World Championship five times. Nygren was Swedish Champion in 1949 and became Nordic Champion in 1960. ...

Joel Jansson Joel Jansson (10 July 1924 to 15 February 2018) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Sweden. Speedway career Jansson reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1958 Individual Speedway World Championship. He rode ...

Björn Knutson Björn Knutson commonly spelt Knutsson (born 27 April 1938 in Sweden) is a former motorcycle speedway rider who won the Speedway World Championship in 1965 and was a four-time winner of the World Team Cup. He gained the nickname 'The Crown Princ ...

and Per-Tage Svensson. Filbyterna won the second division. Älgarna did not compete during 1960.

References

{{International speedway Speedway leagues Professional sports leagues in Sweden

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