Olle Nygren (1964)

 

I was born – in Stockholm on November 11, 1929

Educated – at an ordinary State school in Stockholm and later at night college

Personal Details – 5ft 9ins; 11stones 7lbs; eyes – blue; hair – fair:

First Rode Speedway –at Norrkopping at the end of 1947

I have ridden for –in England – Harringay, Bristol, New Cross, Southampton, Norwich. In Sweden – Vargarna and Monkerarna

Favourite track – many of those. In England – Wimbledon, Coventry, Belle Vue. On the Continent – Munchen- Gladbach (Germany) and Linz Graz (Austria)

Favourite starting position – varies from track to track, but mainly the inside

I have ridden in – Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria, Czecho Slovakia, Belgium, Holland, South Africa, Rhodesia, Portuguese East Africa

I live – in Norwich

My off track occupation –  in Sweden I drive big cranes and do logging

My hobbies – football, I watch it in Norwich every week, Tennis and all sports really

I like –  smell of wintergreen, open bookings, these warm English winters, television

I dislike-  having to run to keep myself from getting over weight, people with no sense of humour, carpet snakes

Favourite Television – Danger Man, Crane, Sunday Night at the London Palladium

Favourite Stars –  Charlie Drake and Tommy Cooper

Favourite food- beef steak

I like drinking –  lemonade!

Best moment in Speedway –  when I ride for Harringay in the final of the London Cup in 1951, my first big meeting for a British team. At Wembley I get an 18 point maximum and Harringay only lose by two points. We think we have a good chance of winning the trophy but Wembley come to Harringay the next night and win easily. But I get 17 points and am very pleased with myself after these two meetings

And worst moment – this happens when I’m road racing in the Hedermora Grand Prix in Sweden. I am in a bunch of riders when one falls, and everyone scatters all over the place. I go off the road at 90 mph, over a ditch, through some hedges and trees. I think my motocross experience that saves me. I was careering about in thick woods for may be a minute before I can stop. A very long and nasty moment, but I escape unhurt

Ambitions – to win the World Final. Maybe it’s a bit too late But I shall have another go this year.

 

From the Speedway Post April 1965