Aage Hansen

Aage Hansen
Hansen in 2010
Born(1935-04-13)13 April 1935
Skreia, Toten, Norway
Died15 November 2023(2023-11-15) (aged 88)
Asker, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Career history
1957Ipswich Witches
Individual honours
1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963Norwegian Championship
1957Nordic Champion
1957Speedway World Championship finalist

Aage Hansen (13 April 1935 – 15 November 2023) was a Norwegian international motorcycle speedway rider.[1] He earned 22 caps for the Norway national speedway team.[2]

Speedway career

Aage Hansen was a seven-time champion of Norway, winning the Norwegian Championship all years between 1956 - 1961, as well as in 1963. He also was the Nordic Speedway Champion in 1957, and won the Nordic Team Speedway Championship together with Sverre Harrfeldt in 1966.[3][4]

Hansen also won two silver medals in the Norwegian Longtrack Championship in 1956 and 1963, and was a Nordic Longtrack Team Champion together with Leif Hveem in 1956.

Hansen reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1957 Individual Speedway World Championship, a meeting in which he was recovering from a dislocated knee.[5][6]

Hansen rode in the top tier of British Speedway for just one season,[7][1] riding for Ipswich Witches[8] during the 1957 Speedway National League, where he averaged 8.17.[9]

Death

Aage Hansen died in Asker, Norway on 15 November 2023, at the age of 88.[10][11]

World final appearances

Individual World Championship

References

  1. ^ a b "Aage Hansen By Bobby Duncan". Seppedway Plus. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Ultimate rider index, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Norway National Championship". Edinburgh Speedway Archive. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  4. ^ "NM Individuelt". Speedway Norge. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  5. ^ "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  6. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  7. ^ "History Archive". British Speedway. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Speedway wizards seek world title". Hull Daily Mail. 21 September 1957. Retrieved 26 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Rider averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  10. ^ Speedwaylegenden Aage Hansen er død (in Norwegian)
  11. ^ "Speedway legend is dead". VG. Retrieved 26 August 2024.