Kurt Hansen (born 2 October 1964) 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
He competed in two finals of the
Speedway Under-21 World Championship
The Speedway Under-21 World Championship is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) since 1977.
As of 2022, the title was awarded to the winner of the SGP2 category at the FIM Speedway ...
(known as the European Championship at the time). The first was as a reserve in the
1984 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship and the second as an outright qualifier in the
1985 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship, where he finished in 9th place.
He only rode in the British leagues for two seasons (1984 and 1985) for the
Halifax Dukes
The Halifax Dukes were a Speedway team which operated from 1949–1951 and again from 1965 until their closure in 1985 at The Shay Stadium in Halifax. The team were nicknamed the "Dukes" after the local Duke of Wellington's Regiment, whose tra ...
.
He represented the
Denmark national under-21 speedway team
The Denmark national under-21 speedway team is the national under-21 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 ant ...
.
References
1964 births
Living people
Danish speedway riders
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