The 1999 Swedish speedway season was the 1999 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 1999 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held in Norrkoping on 4 September.

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won the Swedish Championship for the fifth time and third year in a row. Key *points per race - 3 for a heat win, 2 for 2nd, 1 for third, 0 for last *+3 won race off, +2 2nd in race off, +1, 3rd in race off, +0 last in race off *ef - engine failure *t - tape touching excluded *u - fell *w - excluded

U21 Championship

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won the U21 championship.

Team

Team Championship

Valsarna won the

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and were declared the winners of the

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for the second successive year. The Valsarna team included

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, Sam Ermolenko,

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and Mikael Karlsson. A change in the league structure saw the introduction of the

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

, which would form the division below the Elitserien the following season. In 1999 however, it was an additional league competition for teams finishing in the top four of division 1.

References

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