Stefan Melander

Stefan Melander
Stefan Melander and Nuncio.
OccupationHarness racing driver and trainer
Born23 November 1957
Spånga, Stockholm County, Sweden
Major racing wins
Racing awards
Trainer of the Year (1998, 2001, 2012)
Honours
Trotting Hall of Fame (inducted in 2014)
Significant horses
Scarlet Knight, Iceland, Gigant Neo, Nuncio

Bertil Stefan Melander (born 23 November 1957 in Spånga, Stockholm County) is a Swedish harness racing horse trainer and driver based at Åby-Farm in Enköping, Sweden.

Among the horses he has trained are top trotters Scarlet Knight, Iceland, Gigant Neo and Nuncio. Together with these and other horses, Melander has won numerous major races, including Elitloppet (two times), Hambletonian Stakes (once) and Prix d'Amérique (once). When he won Hambletonian Stakes at Meadowlands Racetrack with Scarlet Knight in August 2001 Melander became the first horseman to bring a U.S.-breed trotter trained and developed in Europe to the U.S. and win the Hambletonian.