Jump to content

Andreas Lyager

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andreas Lyager
Born1 December 1997 (1997-12) (age 26)
Fredericia, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Websiteofficial website
Career history
Denmark
2013Outrup
2014Grindsted
2015–2024Slangerup
Poland
2022Rybnik
2023–2024Bydgoszcz
Sweden
2018Nässjö
2019-2020Vetlanda
2021-2022Indianerna
2024Rospiggarna
Great Britain
2015-2016Scunthorpe
Individual honours
2018Danish Junior champion
2017European Junior Championship bronze
Team honours
2018World team Junior silver
2024Danish league champion

Andreas Lyager Hansen (born 1 December 1997) is a speedway rider from Denmark.[1][2]

Speedway career

[edit]

Lyager joined Scunthorpe Scorpions for the 2015 Premier League speedway season and 2016 Premier League speedway season.[3]

Lyager reached two finals of the World Under-21 Championships in 2017 and 2018 and was the Danish Junior champion in 2018, following two silver medals in the previous two years.[4] He also won three medals at the Junior World Team Championships (bronze in 2016 and 2017 and silver in 2018) and a bronze medal at the 2017 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship.[5]

In 2022, he rode for Rybnik in Poland, Slangerup in Denmark and Indianerna in Sweden. On 25 May 2024, he was eliminated in the 2025 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification.[6] Lyager helped Slangerup win the Danish Speedway League during the 2024 Danish speedway season.[7]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Andreas Lyager profile". Speedway News. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Andreas Lyager". Speedway Euro. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Andreas Lyager". Scunthorpe Speedway. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Teams and results". WWOS backup. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  5. ^ "European U21 Individual Speedway Championship - Final". FIM. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Andreas Lyager went to SEC Challenge". Metropolita Bydgoska. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  7. ^ "MJJ stars as Slangerup ends 13-year Danish title drought". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 19 September 2024.