David Ruud

{{Infobox Speedway rider

| name = David Ruud

| image = David_Ruud.jpg

| nationality = Swedish

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|1|21}}

| birth_place =

| career1 = Sweden

| years2 = 2004

| career2 = Vetlanda

| years3 = 2008–2014

| career3 = Lejonen

| career7 = Poland

| years8 = 2003

| career8 = Częstochowa

| years9 = 2005

| career9 = Piła

| years10 = 2006–2007 2009–2010

| career10 = Gorzów

| years11 = 2008, 2013–2014

| career11 = Ostrów

| years12 = 2011–2012

| career12 = Grudziądz

| career13 = Denmark

| years14 = 2008

| career14 = Holstebro

| career15 = Great Britain

| years16 = 2001, 2003

| career16 = Poole

| years17 = 2003

| career17 = Arena Essex

| years18 = 2004

| career18 = Swindon

| indivyear1 = 2001

| indivhonour1 = Swedish U21 champion

| teamyear1 = 2003

| teamhonour1 = World Cup

| teamyear2 = 2003

| teamhonour2 = Polish league champion

}}

David Ruud (born January 21, 1980Świat Żużla, No 1 (74) / 2008, pages 32-33, {{ISSN|1429-3285}}Świat Żużla, No 2 (75) / 2008, page 25, {{ISSN|1429-3285}}) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Sweden who won 2003 Speedway World Cup with Sweden and earned 6 caps for the Sweden national speedway team.{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Ultimate_Index_1929-2022.pdf |title=Ultimate rider index, 1929-2022 |website=British Speedway |access-date=8 September 2024}}

Career

Ruud signed for Poole Pirates for the 2001 Elite League speedway season before riding for Arena Essex Hammers in 2003.{{cite web |url=https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/5451961.speedway-debut-at-last-for-ruud/ |title=Debut at last for Ruud |website=Colchester Gazette |access-date=8 September 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005107/20030915/168/0022 |title=Update |website=Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette |date=15 September 2003 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 September 2024}}

Ruud was part of the Swedish team that won the 2003 Speedway World Cup final, held on 9 August in the Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark.[http://world.speedway.org/2003/wc/t/f.sdf world.speedway.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030826143256/http://www.world.speedway.org/2003/wc/t/f.sdf |date=2003-08-26 }}; Retrieved on 2008-12-26{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/wtc03.htm|title=2003 WORLD TEAM CUP|website=International Speedway|access-date=15 July 2021}} The same season, Ruud won the Team Polish Championship (Speedway Ekstraliga) with Włókniarz Częstochowa during the 2003 Polish speedway season.