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1956 Swedish speedway season
1956 Swedish speedway season
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The 1956 Swedish speedway season was the 1956 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.^[1]^[2]

Individual

The 1956 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held on 5 October in Gothenburg. Ove Fundin won the Swedish Championship.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Pos.	Rider	Club	Total
1	Ove Fundin	Filbyterna	14
2	Lars Pettersson	Indianerna	12
3	Per-Olof Söderman	Filbyterna	11+3
4	Olle Nygren	Monarkerna	11+2
5	Stig Pramberg	Filbyterna	10
6	Per-Tage Svensson	Filbyterna	10
7	Rune Sörmander	Dackarna	9
8	Ulf Ericsson	Monarkerna	9
9	Birger Forsberg	Monarkerna	8
10	Olle Segerström	Kaparna	8
11	Olle Andersson II	Indianerna	6
12	Dan Forsberg	Filbyterna	5
13	Thorvald Karlsson	Dackarna	3
14	Thorsten Carlsson	Dackarna	2
15	Joel Jansson	Indianerna	1
16	Arne Carlsson (res)	Kaparna	1
17	Rune Claesson	Kaparna	0
18	Anders Olof Andersson (res)	Monarkerna	0

Monarkerna won division 1 for the second consecutive season and were declared the winners of the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. The Monakerna team contained riders such as Olle Nygren and Ulf Ericsson.^[6]^[7]^[8]

As per the 1955 season there were just six teams that lined up for the 1956 season.^[9]

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