Hans Magnus Zetterström (born 9 December 1971 in

Eskilstuna Eskilstuna () is a Urban areas in Sweden, city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The city of Eskilstuna had 69,948 inhabitants in 2020, with a total population of 107,806 inhabitants in Eskilstuna municipality ...

, Sweden) is a former international

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rider from Sweden. He earned 3 caps for the

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Career

Zetterström's first season in the British leagues was in 1996, when he joined the

Poole Pirates Poole Pirates (also known as Poole Speedway) are a motorcycle speedway team based in Poole, England, competing in the SGB Championship. The club have been the champions of the United Kingdom on ten occasions. Poole Speedway is promoted by l ...

for the 1996 Premier League speedway season. He returned to Poole in 1998, where he would spend seven seasons in total, split by spells at

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. He would also make his Polish league debut in 1999 for

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. Zetterström became European Champion in

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. In 2005, he joined the

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and went on to win the Premier League Riders' Championship, held on 24 September 2006 at Owlerton Stadium. He was also part of the Somerset four who won the Premier League Four-Team Championship, held on 20 August 2005, at

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. In 2008, he became the Swedish Champion. In September 2009, during the Speedway Grand Prix Qualification he won the GP Challenge, which ensured that he claimed a permanent slot for the 2010 Grand Prix. He returned for one final season in the British leagues in 2013 when riding for the

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. However, he continued to ride in his native Sweden with

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in 2015 and in Poland until the end of the 2016 season.

Individual European Championship appearances

- European Champion (12 points +3) *

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- 3rd place (11 points)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zetterstrom, Magnus 1971 births Living people Swedish speedway riders Individual Speedway European Champions Belle Vue Aces riders Peterborough Panthers riders Poole Pirates riders Somerset Rebels riders Swedish expatriate speedway riders in England Sportspeople from Eskilstuna Vargarna riders Smederna riders Masarna riders