Anders Peter Ljung (born 30 October 1982) is a Swedish
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. He is a former
Speedway Grand Prix
Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The series started in 1995 replacing the previous format of a single event final. The first win ...
participant. He was part of the winning Swedish team in the
2003 Speedway World Team Cup.
Career
Born in
Åseda
Åseda is a locality and the seat of Uppvidinge Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 2,430 inhabitants in 2010.
Åseda was the birthplace of the chemist Otto Folin
Otto Knut Olof Folin (April 4, 1867 – October 25, 1934) was a Swed ...
,
Sweden
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, Ljung first had success in his native Sweden, winning the second division championship in 1999 with
Team Svelux, going on to win it again in 2002 with
Vetlanda
Vetlanda () is a locality and the seat of Vetlanda Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 13,050 inhabitants in 2010.
History
Vetlanda was still nothing more than a village for several centuries. With the 1840s population boom in Småland ...
.
[Rider Index]
, speedwaygb.co. Retrieved 23 March 2014 In 2002 he finished as runner up in the Swedish Under-21 final.
He made his debut in British speedway in 2003 with
Eastbourne Eagles
The Eastbourne Eagles were a British speedway team, based at Arlington Stadium, near Eastbourne, England, that raced in the SGB Championship.
History
Speedway was initially introduced to Eastbourne in 1929. During their first league season th ...
.
The same year he was part of the victorious Swedish World Cup team.
He returned to the Eagles in 2004 and also went on to ride for
Swindon Robins
The Swindon Speedway team, also known as the Swindon Robins, are an English motorcycle speedway team established in 1949 that have competed primarily in the top division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom. They are five times l ...
later in the season.
He returned to the Robins team midway through the 2005 season for a short spell.
He spent several years away from British speedway, returning in 2010 with
Lakeside Hammers
The Lakeside Hammers were a speedway team who most recently raced in the SGB Championship in 2018. They were founded (as the Arena-Essex Hammers) by promoter Wally Mawdsley and stock car promoter Chick Woodroffe. The team were nicknamed the Ham ...
, and was named in the team for 2011.
After getting a Speedway Grand Prix place in 2012, he decided that he could not commit to a season in Britain.
[Speedway: Lakeside Hammers lose Peter Ljung for 2012 term]
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He raced in the 2012
series, finishing in 15th place.
in their debut Elite League season.