Kalvholmen Motorstadion is a
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 ...
track located in the southeast of
Karlstad
Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants ...
. The facility on the Kalvholmsgatan forms part of a complex that includes, speedway, Rally cross and Cross Kart.
The stadium hosts the
Karlstad Speedway (Solkatterna) team that competes in the
Swedish Speedway Team Championship.
History
The track's origins started in the late 1960s, with a search by the motor club association for a new site, following the speedway team's move away from the short lived Färjestad's Trotting Track.
[ The association found a landfill area and began construction in 1970 and opened it in the Autumn of the same year.][
In 1979, a smaller 80cc track was constructed inside of the main 500cc track.]1983 Individual Speedway World Championship
The 1983 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 38th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider. It was the first time the World Final had been held in West Germany.
Final summary
An almost capacity c ...
and 1989 Individual Speedway World Championship
The 1989 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 44th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider. It was the second time the championship was held in West Germany after previously being held in Norden i ...
and the final of the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship
The Swedish Individual Championship is a competition for Swedish Speedway riders, held each year to determine the Swedish national champion.
Previous winners
Medals classification
References
Speedway competitions in Sweden
Sweden
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in 1984.
Tony Rickardsson
Tony Rickardsson (born on 17 August 1970) is a Swedish former professional motorcycle speedway rider. He competed in the Speedway World Championships from 1989 to 2006. Rickardsson is notable for winning six Speedway World Championship titles in 1 ...
, a multiple world champion set a track record of 56.3 seconds on 8 September 2004.[
A dispute over ownership surfaced in late 2016, when Solkatterna and the Karlstad municipality disagreed as to who owns the site. Solkatterna claimed the land was owned by Karlstad's mechanical workshop (KMW) when the track was built and before the municipality bought the land, stating that the stadium was therefore still owned by the club. The municipality claimed that when they bought the land in 1970, they took responsibility for the stadium.]
References
Speedway venues in Sweden
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