Speedway
Ullevi has also hosted Motorcycle speedway and hosted the Speedway World Championship on no less than eight occasions, second only to Wembley Stadium in London, England which hosted the World Final a record 26 times. The track is a dirt surface laid out over the athletics track and is officially 404m long with a track record of 69.4 seconds (4 laps clutch start). The largest attendance for a World Final at Ullevi occurred in 1974 when 38,390 turned out to see Sweden's own Anders Michanek win his only World Championship with an unbeaten 15 point maximum.
Since the World Championship was changed in 1995 from a single meeting Final to the Speedway Grand Prix (SGP), Ullevi has hosted a round of the series in 2002, 2003, 2004 (Grand Prix of Scandinavia), 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (Grand Prix of Sweden).
The pre-SGP Speedway World Final's held at Ullevi and the winners were:
- 1964 - Barry Briggs
- 1968 - Ivan Mauger
- 1971 - Ole Olsen
- 1974 - Anders Michanek
- 1977 - Ivan Mauger
- 1980 - Michael Lee
- 1984 - Erik Gundersen
- 1991 - Jan O. Pedersen
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