The 1987 Swedish speedway season was the 1987 season of

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in Sweden.

Individual

Individual Championship

The 1987 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held in Gothenburg on 29 August.

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won the Swedish Championship for the second successive year.

U21 Championship

Henrik Gustafsson Henrik Anders (Henka) Gustafsson (born 14 August 1970 in Sköllersta, Sweden) is an international Motorcycle speedway rider who won the 1993 World Pairs Championship with Tony Rickardsson and the Speedway World Team Cup with Sweden in 1994 and 2 ...

won the U21 championship for the second consecutive year.

Team

Team Championship

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

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and were declared the winners of the

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for the sixth time and second year in succession. The Vetlanda team included Jan Andersson, Kenneth Nyström,

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and Conny Samuelsson. Gamarna won the first division, while

Griparna Griparna is a speedway club from Nyköping in Sweden, who compete in the Allsvenskan. Their home track is at the Nyköpings Motorstadion which is located to the North of Nyköping. History Griparna Speedway was founded in 1949. The team compete ...

and Brassarna won the second division north and south respectively.

References

{{International speedway Speedway leagues Professional sports leagues in Sweden

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