He is also a seven-time World Team Cup winner with Denmark, and earned 91 international caps for the country.

[5] He also rode in the qualifying rounds of the 1979 Speedway World Team Cup and gained a silver medal despite not actually riding in the final.

Gundersen first appeared in the Speedway World Championship Final in 1981 at Wembley Stadium where in front of 92,500 fans he finished 4th with 11 points.

[4] He made amends for his 1982 failure, easily qualifying for the 1983 World Final in West Germany where he would again finish in a strong 4th place.

In Britain, he won the league and cup double with Cradley and topped the Midlands' team averages.

[13] Gundersen was pipped by great rival Nielsen in the 2-day 1987 World Final at the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium.

He was then confined to a bed in hospital for the next month with grim prospects for resuming a normal life as doctors reported he had no neurological function below his neck.

* The 1989 Speedway World Team Cup final was where Gundersen suffered his career ending crash in turn 1 of Heat 1.