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Nicki Pedersen

Danish motorcycle speedway rider

Summary

Danish motorcycle speedway rider

FieldValue
nameNicki Pedersen
imageWinners of 2nd final of Individual Speedway European Championship 2013 (Pedersen).jpg
nationalityDanish
birth_date
birth_placeOdense, Denmark
websiteofficial website
career1Denmark
years21988–1997, 2025
career2Fjelsted
years31998–1999
career3Holstebro
years42000–2002
career4Brovst
years52003–2023
career5Holsted Tigers
career6Grindsted
years62024
career7Great Britain
years81998
career8Newcastle
years91999–2000
career9Wolverhampton
years102001–2002
career10King's Lynn
years112003
career11Oxford
years122003–2007
career12Eastbourne
years132011, 2023
career13Peterborough
career14Poland
years151999
career15Gniezno
years162000, 2020-2023
career16Grudziądz
years172001, 2003, 2012
career17Gdańsk
years182002, 2019
career18Zielona Góra
years192004-2005, 2025
career19Rybnik
years202006-2007, 2013, 2024
career20Rzeszów
years212008-2009
career21Częstochowa
years222010-2011
career22Gorzów
years232014-2017
career23Leszno
years242018
career24Tarnów
career25Sweden
years261997-1998
career26Filbyterna
years271999-2001, 2018-2019
career27Västervik
years282002-2005
career28Smederna
years292006-2007
career29Hammarby
years302008-2010, 2016
career30Lejonen
years312011-2013
career31Vargarna
years322014-2015, 2025
career32Dackarna
years332020
career33Masarna
SGP starts178
SGP podium49 (17-15-17)
SGP finals64
SGP win17
indivyear12003, 2007, 2008
indivhonour1World Champion
indivyear22002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011
indivhonour2Danish Champion
indivyear32008
indivyear42005, 2007
indivhonour4Elite League Riders Champion
indivyear51997, 1998
indivhonour5Danish Under-21 Champion
indivyear62010
indivhonour6Golden Helmet of Pardubice
teamyear12006, 2008, 2012, 2014
teamhonour1World Cup Winner
teamyear22015
teamhonour2Polish Ekstraliga Champion
teamyear32001, 2002, 2003
teamhonour3Polish Div Two Champion
teamyear41995, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2021
teamhonour4Danish League Champion
teamyear52004, 2014
teamyear62008, 2009, 2020
teamhonour6Elitserien Champion

Nicki Pedersen (born 2 April 1977) is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider. He is a three time world champion having won the World Championship in 2003, 2007 and 2008. He has also won the World Cup with Denmark in 2006, 2008, 2012 and 2014.

Career

Pedersen began speedway racing aged 11 at Danish club Fjelsted. He stayed at the club until a move to in 1998 to Holstebro, the same year that he made his British league debut with Newcastle Diamonds in the 1998 Premier League speedway season. He topped the League averages which began his journey towards the pinnacle of the sport.

He started his Polish speedway career in 1999 with Polish Speedway First League club Start Gniezno and would go on to ride for ten different Polish sides. Elite League side Wolverhampton Wolves bought him for the 1999 season. He was at Wolverhampton for two years.

Pedersen took part in his first Grand Prix in 2000, as a wildcard in Denmark and impressed by finishing in fourth place. That year he qualified for the 2001 Grand Prix where he managed a third in the opening round in Germany and then earned a spot in the Grand Prix in 2002. He showed potential in the opening round in 2002, finishing third in Germany. Consistent scoring left him in 11th place in the World Championship after his first full year.

Pedersen had a bad start to 2002, but secured his GP place in 2003 after recording the first win of his career in the European Grand Prix. He finished the year in 12th place despite an inconsistent season.

In 2003, he improved massively on his 2002 performance. He finished second in the opening Grand Prix of the season and after a 10th place in the Swedish Grand Prix, Pedersen won again in Cardiff to give him a chance of becoming World Champion. Consistent high placings and four more podium finishes, including three in a row, secured the 2003 World Championship for Pedersen.

He joined Eastbourne Eagles in 2003 and would stay for four years until the end of the 2007 season due to a change in ownership of the club and a reduction of the points limit for team building purposes by the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA).

The 2004 season was less successful for Pedersen; he failed to record a win or a podium place. He finished in fifth place in the World Championship, well behind the two leaders Tony Rickardsson and Jason Crump. A second place in Slovenia was his best result during the 2005 Grand Prix season and he finished in fourth in the World Championship. Pedersen won the opening GP meeting of the 2006 season in Slovenia, but after that he fell behind championship leaders Rickardsson and Crump. He improved to finish third in the World Championship however, after a podium place in Latvia and a win in Poland. He won his first major team gold for Denmark after winning the 2006 Speedway World Cup.

Pedersen was dominant in 2007, winning four of the eleven Grand Prix, and finishing runner-up in two. He dropped only one point in the opening two rounds and had a run of six consecutive finals, which ended after an exclusion in the semi-final in Great Britain. Pedersen won the penultimate Grand Prix in Slovenia and in doing so became the 2007 World Champion for a second time, after accumulating an unassailable lead at the head of the standings.

He successfully defended his title during the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix to become a three time world champion and join a select group of seven other riders at the time. He also helped Denmark win the 2008 Speedway World Cup (his second) and would go on to win four in total after winning again in 2012 and 2014.

He continued to perform at the major championships riding in every Grand Prix series until his last in the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix. He won the silver medal during the 2012 Speedway Grand Prix and bronze medal at both the 2014 Speedway Grand Prix and 2015 Speedway Grand Prix.

After international retirement he continued to ride in domestic speedway in Denmark, Sweden and Poland. In 2022, he suffered a serious crash when riding for Grudziądz in Poland, breaking his hip and pelvis. He missed the remainder of the season. Pedersen returned to British speedway in 2023, when he signed for Peterborough for the SGB Premiership 2023; he had previously ridden in Britain for the club in 2011. However, after crashing and picking up an injury in his first ride he resigned from the club.

In 2023, as the joint Danish team manager he was part of the Danish team that won the bronze medal in the 2023 Speedway World Cup final. He chose to ride just once in the final itself.

Family

His brother, Ronni Pedersen, has also ridden in the Speedway Grand Prix and World Cup.

Major results

World individual Championship

World team Championships

Grand Prix wins

Grand Prix results

YearPositionPointsBest FinishNotes
200020th174thFourth placed as a wild card in Danish Grand Prix
200111th523rdThird in German Grand Prix
200212th73WinnerWon European Grand Prix
20031st152WinnerWon British Grand Prix
20045th1134th
20054th1022ndSecond in Slovenian Grand Prix
20063rd134WinnerWon Slovenian and Polish Grand Prix
20071st196WinnerWon in Italian, European, Czech Republic and Slovenian Grand Prix
20081st174WinnerWon in Czech Republic Grand Prix
20096th110WinnerWon in Polish Grand Prix
201010th914th
201110th89WinnerWon European Grand Prix
20122nd152WinnerWon Czech Republic and Croatian Grand Prix
20135th1213rdThird in New Zealand, Swedish and Czech Republic Grand Prix
20143rd1342ndSecond in New Zealand and Latvian Grand Prix
20153rd131WinnerWon Finnish, Swedish and Third Polish Grand Prix
201613th624th
201720th813th
201811th74WinnerWon Scandinavia GP

References

References

  1. Oakes, P.(2006). ''Speedway Star Almanac''. {{ISBN. 0-9552376-1-0
  2. Montague, Trevor. (2004). "The A-Z of Sport". Little, Brown.
  3. Bamford, R.(2007). ''Speedway Yearbook 2007''. {{ISBN. 978-0-7524-4250-1
  4. "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022".
  5. "Nicki Pedersen".
  6. "HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK".
  7. "Grand Prix of Norway - Nicki is new world champ".
  8. "2006 Grand Prix".
  9. "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX".
  10. . (23 July 2022). "Still defying the odds".
  11. "NICKI RETURNS FOR PURPLE PANTHERS".
  12. "POLAND WIN SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP AHEAD OF GREAT BRITAIN AS MACIEJ JANOWSKI BEATS ROBERT LAMBERT IN DECISIVE HEAT 20".
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