Bent Rasmussen (born 13 July 1957) is a former

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 ...

rider from Denmark.

Career

Rasmussen made his British leagues debut in 1977, when he joined the

Hackney Hawks Hackney Hawks speedway opened in 1963 at Hackney Wick Stadium, Waterden Road, London and operated until 1983. The team replaced the Hackney Wick Wolves who had raced at the stadium from 1935 to 1939. The Hawks were then themselves replaced by the ...

for the

1977 British League season The 1977 Gulf British League season was the 43rd season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the 13th season known as the British League. Summary Newport had dropped down to the National League but their riders transferred to th ...

. The following season he continued to ride for Hackney before switching to the

King's Lynn Stars King's Lynn Stars are a motorcycle speedway team who compete in the SGB Premiership. The nickname "Stars" comes from the defunct Norwich Stars team. The team was founded in 1965 and has been running continually since then, except for 1996 when Kin ...

. Although his 1978 British league performances were below expectation he won the Danish Final (world championship round) held in

Fjelsted Fjelsted is a town located on the island of Funen in south Denmark, in Middelfart Municipality. Fjelsted is located next to the Funen Motorway three kilometers south of Harndrup, 20 kilometers east of Middelfart and 28 kilometers west of Odense. ...

. Rasmussen continued to ride for King's Lynn in 1979 and 1980 and also represented the

Denmark national speedway team Denmark is one of the major teams in international speedway. They are managed by Denmark's most successful speedway rider, four time Individual World Champion Hans Nielsen and the current captain is Niels-Kristian Iversen. They have won the Spe ...

at the

1979 Speedway World Team Cup The 1979 Speedway World Team Cup was the 20th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final took place on 16 September at the White City Stadium in London. New Zealand won their first title defeating ...

. During the 1980 Danish speedway season he won the bronze medal in the Danish Championship. His final season in Britain was in

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, with the

Cradley Heathens Cradley Heathens was a motorcycle speedway team from Dudley, England. The team was founded in 1947 and competed at the top level of British speedway until its closure in 1995. It was revived as Dudley Heathens in 2010, competing in the National L ...

, where he rode in all 30 of Cradley's fixtures and helped them win the league championship.

References

Living people 1957 births Danish speedway riders People from Herning Municipality Cradley Heathens riders Hackney Hawks riders King's Lynn Stars riders {{Speedway-stub