Hasse Holmqvist | |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Birth Date: | 18 June 1945 |
Birth Place: | Avesta, Sweden |
Career1: | Sweden |
Career2: | Folkare |
Years2: | 1962-1963 |
Career3: | Masarna |
Years3: | 1964-1965, 1969-1971 |
Career4: | Taxarna |
Years4: | 1966-1967 |
Career5: | Vargarna |
Years5: | 1968-1969, 1971-1972 |
Career6: | Indianerna |
Years6: | 1973-1981, 1983 |
Career7: | Great Britain |
Career8: | Wolverhampton Wolves |
Years8: | 1967-1968 |
Career9: | Oxford Cheetahs |
Years9: | 1970, 1973, 1975 |
Indivyear1: | 1968, 1969 |
Indivhonour1: | Speedway World Championship finalist |
Teamyear1: | 1973 |
Teamhonour1: | Allsvenskan Div 2 West Champion |
Hans Ulof Holmqvist (born 18 June 1945) is a Swedish former motorcycle speedway rider.[1] During his career he was known as Hasse Holmqvist.[2]
Holmqvist was a leading speedway rider in the late 1960s. He reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1968 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1969 Individual Speedway World Championship.[3]
He won the silver medal in 1975 and bronze medal in 1968 at the Swedish Championship.[4]
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1967 until 1975, riding for Wolverhampton Wolves and Oxford Cheetahs.[5]