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1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship
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5th edition of the World motorcycle speedway Pairs Championship
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1972 World Pairs Championship 1971 1973
The 1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the third official FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship.Bott Richard The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4 1980 99 Stanley Paul & Co Ltd 0-09-141751-1http://edinburghspeedway.blogspot.com/2013/04/world-pairs-championship.html World Pairs Championship 1968-1993 Edinburgh Speedway 11 July 2021Oakes Peter 1981 Speedway Yearbook 1981 27–28 Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd 0-86215-017-5 The final took place in Borås, Sweden.
The championship was won by England (24 points) who beat New Zealand after Run-Off (24 points also) and Sweden B (22 points) who beat Sweden A after a run-off. Zapomniane turnieje: Mistrzostwa Świata Par (część 1) Polish SportoweFakty.pl 2009-07-09 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2009/07/09/zapomniane-turnieje-mistrzostwa-swiata-par-czesc-1/ 2009-07-09 http://www.speedwayplus.com/WorldPairs1972.shtml The World Pairs Final 1972 Speedway Plus 27 October 2023
Semifinal 1
ENG Wimbledon Stadium, LondonWorld Pairs reduced to farce Coventry Evening Telegraph 12 May 1972 19 December 2023 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000769/19720512/384/0042 British Newspaper Archive subscription
11 May
Pos. Team Rider Points1st NZL (27 pts) Ivan Mauger 15Ronnie Moore 122nd ENG (25 pts) Ray Wilson 14Terry Betts 113rd SWE (22 pts) Anders Michanek 11Bengt Jansson 114 SCO (15 pts) Jim McMillan 9George Hunter 65 AUS (14 pts) Geoff Curtis 7Garry Middleton 76 DEN (9 pts) Ole Olsen 7Paul Rosenkilde 27 NOR (9 pts) Øyvind S. Berg 6Reidar Eide 3
Semifinal 2
HUN Gázvezeték Street Sports Complex, Debrecen
14 May
Pos. Team Rider Points1st POL (? pts) Zbigniew Marcinkowski ?Wiktor Jastrzębski ?2nd HUN (? pts) ? ?? ?3rd CSK (21 pts) Petr Ondrasik 11Jan Verner 104 ? (? pts) ? ?? ?5 ? (? pts) ? ?? ?6 ? (? pts) ? ?? ?7 ? (? pts) ? ?? ?
World final
SWE Ryavallen, Borås
1 June 1972
P1 ENG 11 Ray Wilson 3 1 3 3 2 3 3 12 Terry Betts 2 0 1 1 3 2 * P2 NZL 13 Ivan Mauger 2 2 3 1 3 3 F 14 Ronnie Moore 1 3 2 2 0 2 P3 SWE B 7 Bernt Persson 2 3 3 3 2 0 3 8 Hasse Holmqvist 1 2 2 0 3 1 4 SWE A 5 Anders Michanek 3 3 3 2 1 3 2 6 Bengt Jansson 0 2 1 0 2 2 5 POL 1 Zbigniew Marcinkowski 3 3 2 2 3 F 2 Wiktor Jastrzębski 0 0 0 X 2 X 6 CSK 3 Jan Holub I 1 0 1 3 0 0 4 Jiri Stancl 2 1 0 2 1 1 7 HUN 9 Ferenc Radacsi 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 Pal Perenyi 0 0 0 0 0 X
See also
1972 Individual Speedway World Championship
1972 Speedway World Team Cup
motorcycle speedway
1972 in sports
References
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World Pairs