Hasse Holmqvist
Swedish speedway rider
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Born | (1945-06-18) 18 June 1945 (age 79) Avesta, Sweden |
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Nationality | Swedish |
Career history | |
Sweden | |
1962-1963 | Folkare |
1964-1965, 1969-1971 | Masarna |
1966-1967 | Taxarna |
1968-1969, 1971-1972 | Vargarna |
1973-1981, 1983 | Indianerna |
Great Britain | |
1967-1968 | Wolverhampton Wolves |
1970, 1973, 1975 | Oxford Cheetahs |
Individual honours | |
1968, 1969 | Speedway World Championship finalist |
Team honours | |
1973 | Allsvenskan Div 2 West Champion |
Hans Ulof Holmqvist (born 18 June 1945) is a Swedish former motorcycle speedway rider.[1] During his career he was known as Hasse Holmqvist.[2]
Speedway career
Holmqvist was a leading speedway rider in the late 1960s. He reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1968 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1969 Individual Speedway World Championship.[3]
He won the silver medal in 1975 and bronze medal in 1968 at the Swedish Championship.[4]
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1967 until 1975,[5] riding for Wolverhampton Wolves and Oxford Cheetahs.[6]
World final appearances
Individual World Championship
World Pairs Championship
- 1972 -
Borås, Ryavallen (with Bernt Persson) - 3rd - 22pts (9)
Individual Ice Speedway World Championship
References
- ^ "Hasse Holmqvist profile". wwosbackup. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
- ^ "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Sweden National Championship". Edinburgh Speedway Archive. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "History Archive". British Speedway. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Injury hit Diamonds take on the Wolves". Buckinghamshire Examiner. 25 July 1975. Retrieved 26 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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