Sören Sjösten

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Sören Sjösten

Nationality	Sweden
Date of birth	1938
Place of birth	Krylbo, Sweden
Date of death	1999
Current Club Information
Career Status	Retired
Career History
Folkare MK (SWE) Vargarna (SWE) Belle Vue Aces Masarna (SWE) Bysarna (SWE)		1958-1959 1960-1968 1962-1964, 1967-1975 1969-1970, 1979 1971-1978
Individual Honours
Swedish Junior Champion	1959
Team Honours
World Team Cup Winner World Pairs Champion Swedish League Champion Swedish Pairs Champion	1962, 1964, 1970 1974 1960, 1961, 1971, 1972, 1975 1964, 1968, 1977

Sören Sjösten (born 1938, Krylbo, Sweden, died 1999)^[1] was a motorcycle speedway rider. He won the world pairs championship in 1974 with Anders Michanek and became world team champion three times representing Sweden, in 1962, 1964 and 1970. Sjösten also appeared in six individual world finals with two bronze medals as best result. Both third places was received after losing race-off heats for silver medal, the first time to Barry Briggs and the second time to Ivan Mauger^[2].

Sjösten rode for Masarna, Vargarna and Bysarna in the Swedish leagues and for Belle Vue Aces in the British league. He was often very fast from the gate and he could sometimes be riding rough on his opponents^[3].

He retired after his brother Christer was killed in a meeting in Brisbane, Australia^[4] in 1979.