Filip Hjelmland (born 10 September 1998) is a
speedway rider from Sweden.
Speedway career
Hjelmland came to prominence in 2017 when he won a silver medal at the
European U19 Championship.
He became a regular member of the
Sweden national under-21 speedway team and helped them win a bronze medal at the
2019 Team Junior European Championship final. He was then called up to the
Sweden national speedway team
Sweden are one of the major teams in international speedway. They have been managed by Mats Olsson, who is currently in his 2nd spell, since 2005 after he quit in 2000. The current captain is 2000 World Under-21 Champion Andreas Jonsson.
Spe ...
and represented them in the
2019 Speedway of Nations
The 2019 Speedway of Nations was the second FIM Speedway of Nations. The competition consisted of two race-off events and a two-legged final. The event was won by Russia for the second consecutive year. They beat Poland in the Grand Final with Aus ...
.
In 2022, he rode for
Dackarna
Dackarna is a speedway club from Målilla in Sweden who compete in the Swedish Elitserien. Their home track is at the Skrotfrag Arena which has been used as the venue for the Grand Prix of Scandinavia since 2005.
History
The team was founded i ...
in the Swedish
Eliserien and
Ostrów in the
Ekstrasliga (the highest leagues in Sweden and Poland).
References
Living people
1998 births
Swedish speedway riders
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