| Aage Hansen | |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Birth Date: | 13 April 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Skreia, Toten, Norway |
| Death Place: | Asker, Norway |
| Career1: | Ipswich Witches |
| Years1: | 1957 |
| Indivyear1: | 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963 |
| Indivhonour1: | Norwegian Championship |
| Indivyear2: | 1957 |
| Indivhonour2: | Nordic Champion |
| Indivyear3: | 1957 |
| Indivhonour3: | Speedway 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]
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]
Aage Hansen died in Asker, Norway on 15 November 2023, at the age of 88.[10] [11]