MOLLER JOINS MONARCHS

NEWS Thursday 26th January 2006, 10:00am

by Mike Hunter

  Edinburgh Monarchs

20 year old Danish prospect Henrik Moller has joined Monarchs and completed the top five of their team for the 2006 season.

Henrik was 2004 Nordic Champion, and is very much in the forefront of the new wave of Danish riders.

Speaking from Denmark this evening (his English is pretty good) he said ?I am very much looking forward to coming to Scotland.

?I know it will be hard and I have heard that the matches with the two Scottish clubs are always exciting.

?I will be coming over to Britain on 27th February to ride at King's Lynn with Team Denmark. Jan Staechmann has told me that Edinburgh is a very good club with good people.?

Moller comes in with an assessed 8-point average, for what is actually his second spell in the UK. In 2004 at the age of 18 he rode one match for Peterborough 2004 (at Belle Vue) and also in a pairs meeting at Peterborough, before unluckily suffering injury in Denmark. Now he returns with a strong recommendation from Team Denmark manager Jan Staechmann.

Moller's Nordic Under-21 Championship win in 2004 marked him as an outstanding talent and he has maintained this standard.

Denmark took the bronze medal at last year's European Under-21 Team Championship, with Moller starring alongside compatriot Morten Risager, a member of the Elite League champions Coventry.

As a measure of his likely standard, he has been regularly outscoring Nicolai Klindt who was such a hit at last year's Scottish Open.

Monarchs' promoter John Campbell has been in contact with Team Moller for some months and is delighted to have landed such a prospect.

It will be a busy season for the new Monarch, who also rides for Holsted (Denmark), Lejonen (Sweden) and Ostrow (Poland).