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Holsted Speedway Center

motorcycle speedway venue at Holsted, Denmark

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ124115634 ↗
Source-derived summary

Holsted Speedway Center or Moldow Speedway Arena is a motorcycle speedway facility located about 6 kilometres south of Holsted, Denmark. The track is off the Ribevej road that runs south from railway town. The stadium is the home track for the Holsted Tigers, who race in the Danish Speedway Leagues.

History

The track opened on 4 June 1989, replacing the old Holsted Gørklint Speedway track.

On 28 July 1996, the arena hosted the 1996 Intercontinental final and the 2000 Intercontinental final, before being selected for a round of the 2003 Speedway World Cup.

In 2022, the Danish Individual Speedway Championship was held at the center for the 13th time in its history.

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The public source identifies “Holsted Speedway Center” as motorcycle speedway venue at Holsted, Denmark. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Holsted, Speedway and Center.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1996, 2000, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Holsted, Speedway and Center providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Holsted Speedway Center” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.