1979 Individual Long Track World Championship

Long track motorcycle racing event 1979 Individual Long Track World Championship 1979 9 9 18 7 Mariánské Lázně Czechoslovakia Alois Wiesböck Anders Michanek Ole Olsen FRG SWE DEN 21 Winning score 1978 1980 The 1979 Individual Long Track World Championship was the ninth edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.Oakes Peter Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook, page 30 1981 Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd 0-86215-017-5http://www.speedway.org/history/ SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK Speedway.org The event was held on 9 September 1979 in Mariánské Lázně in the Czech Republic, which was Czechoslovakia at the time.http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ World Longtrack World Champions Grasstrack GB The world title was won by Alois Wiesböck of West Germany.http://www.speedwayplus.com/pdf/Longtrack.pdf WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes Speedway Plus.comMontague Trevor A To Z of Sport, page 512 2004 Little Brown 0-316-72946-9 Final Classification Pos Rider Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Total Pts1 FRG Alois Wiesböck 54552212 SWE Anders Michanek 4 5551203 DEN Ole Olsen 25435194 TCH Jiří Štancl 43334175 FRG Georg Hack 24343166 FRG Karl Maier 45220137 FRG Egon Müller 5430E128 DEN Kristian Præstbro 3044E119 ENG Michael Lee 0342E910 NZL Ivan Mauger 1151E811 TCH Aleš Dryml Sr. 52ef1E712 ENG Peter Collins 3220E7 13 FRG Christoph Betzl 321EE614 FRG Wilhelm Duden 132 EE615 DEN Alf Busk 2 0 1 EE316 TCH Zdeněk Kudrna 110EE217 ITA Francesco Biginato 001EE118 FRG Walter Grubmuller 010EE1 E = eliminated (no further ride) ef = engine failure References 1979 Category:Sport in Czechoslovakia Category:Speedway competitions in the Czech Republic Category:Sports competitions in Czechoslovakia Motor Motor