Norrköping Motorstadion also called the Boardic Arena (for sponsorship purposes) 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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

track located in the western outskirts of

Norrköping Norrköping ( , ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Lin ...

. The track is located just off the Lindövägen and is adjacent to the SMK Östgöta MC Kråkvilan complex, which includes motocross and enduro. The stadium hosts the

Vargarna Vargarna () is a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Norrköping, Sweden, representing SMK Östgöta. The team race at Norrköping Motorstadion. They ride in the Elitserien and are six times champions of Sweden. History 1948 to 1954 ...

speedway team that compete in the

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and have been champions of Sweden on six occasions.

History

The stadium held its first meeting on 6 September 1969 and was ready for the

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. The stadium hosted the Nordic Speedway Final, which formed part of the World Championship in 1972. Eight more finals were held at the track in 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1998. In addition, it has hosted the

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in 1986 and 1999. Leading into the

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the track dimensions were changed with the widening of the bends and the track measurement altering from 279 metres to 271 metres.

Track records

*279m

Tony Rickardsson Jan Tony Sören 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 and won six Speedway World Championship titles in 15 attempts. ...

57.0 seconds, 30 June 1998 *279m

Jason Crump Jason Philip Crump (born 6 August 1975) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Australia (UK born). He is a three-time Speedway World Champion, and a World Cup winner. In a 21-year career in Speedway, Crump finished with sev ...

=57.0 seconds, 10 August 2010 *271m Kim Nilsson 56.1 seconds, 21 July 2016

References

Speedway venues in Sweden Sports venues in Östergötland County Sport in Norrköping 20th-century establishments in Östergötland County 1969 establishments in Sweden {{motorcycle-speedway-stub