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| birth_place = Sønderborg, Denmark| career1 = Denmark| years2 = 2000–2001Herning Speedway klub>Herning| years3 = 2002Kronjylland Speedway klub>Kronjylland| career4 = Great BritainCoventry Bees>Coventry| years5 = 1992-1999 Oxford Cheetahs>Oxford| years6 = 2000-2002| career9 = Poland| years10 = 1991 PSŻ Poznań>Poznań| years11 = 1995, 1997 Stal Rzeszów (motorcycle speedway)>Rzeszów| years12 = 1998-1999 Unia Leszno>Leszno | years13 = 2000 WTS Wrocław>Wrocław| years14 = 2001 Włókniarz Częstochowa>CzęstochowaIndividual Speedway Danish Championship>Danish Champion| indivyear1 = 1995, 19991997 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain>1997| indivhonour2 = Grand Prix wins1991 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship>1991Individual Speedway Junior World Championship>U-21 World Champion| teamyear1 = 1996, 1998Speedway World Team Cup>World Cup bronze}}Brian Askel Andersen (born 13 March 1971) is a Danish former international motorcycle speedway rider.WEB,weblink Brian Andersen, WWOS backup, 14 January 2023, WEB,weblink ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022, British Speedway, 24 June 2023,

Career

Andersen reached the final of the Under-21 World Championship in 1990. The following year, he won the championship to become the 1991 Junior World Champion. In the final he defeatied fellow Dane Morten Andersen in a run-off for the title after both riders had finished on 14 points.WEB,weblink 1991, Speedway.org, 15 July 2021, NEWS, Andersen leads dazzling Danes to Brandon glory, Coventry Evening Telegraph, 1 October 1991, 9 March 2024,weblink British Newspaper Archive, subscription, The success brought him to the attention of British leagues and Coventry Bees signed him for the 1992 British League season.He drove up his average over the following seasons for Coventry and established himself as one of their leading riders. In 1995, he won the Individual Speedway Danish Championship. In 1996, he finished second in the 1996 Intercontinental Final, which qualified him for his first Speedway Grand Prix series.WEB,weblink Speedway World Championship History - 1996, International Speedway, 14 January 2023, He rode in the Grand Prix between 1997 and 2001, and won two bronze medals in the Speedway World Team Cup. He won the Danish Championship for the second time in 1999, which was also his last season for Coventry before he moved to join Oxford Cheetahs for the 2000 Elite League speedway season.In 2001, he was part of the Oxford Cheetahs title winning team in 2001.

Family

His brother Jan Andersen was a speedway rider. His son Mikkel Andersen is also a speedway rider and the 2022 FIM Speedway Youth World Championship (SGP3) world champion.MAGAZINE, Dad can barley watch, Speedway Star, 30, 19 September 2022,

Major results

World individual Championship

• 1997 Speedway Grand Prix - 6th (80 pts) including winning the 1997 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain
• 1998 Speedway Grand Prix - 16th (31 pts)
• 1999 Speedway Grand Prix - 22nd (12 pts)
• 2000 Speedway Grand Prix - 23rd (15 pts)
• 2001 Speedway Grand Prix - 18th (23 pts)

World team Championships

• 1996 Speedway World Team Cup - bronze medal
• 1998 Speedway World Team Cup - bronze medal
• 2000 Speedway World Team Cup - =5th
• 2001 Speedway World Cup - 4th

See also

• Denmark national speedway team
• List of Speedway Grand Prix riders

References

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