1972 Speedway World Team Cup

13th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition December 2023 December 2023 1972 Speedway World Team Cup 1971 1973 The 1972 Speedway World Team Cup was the 13th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.Matthews/Morrison Peter/Ian The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results 1987 290 Guinness Superlatives 0-85112-492-5Oakes Peter 1981 Speedway Yearbook 1981 25–26 Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd 0-86215-017-5Bott Richard The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4 1980 98 Stanley Paul & Co Ltd 0-09-141751-1 The final took place at the Olching Speedwaybahn in Olching, West Germany. The title was won by Great Britain for the third time.http://edinburghspeedway.blogspot.com/2014/02/world-team-cup-1960-1990.html World Team Cup 1960-1990 Edinburgh Speedway 13 July 2021http://motorsporttop20.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/11.-Speedway-World-Cup-Nations.pdf FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP/ SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS Motor Sport Top 20 13 July 2021https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000760/19720925/048/0048 Britain's retain title Leicester Daily Mercury 25 September 1972 British Newspaper Archive subscription 8 September 2024 Qualifying Scandinavian round 25 June NOR Nærbø Idrettslunden, Nærbø Pos.National team Pts. Riders1SWE 37 Hasse Holmqvist 10 Christer Löfqvist 10 Jan Simensen 9 Bernt Persson 82 DEN 25 Ole Olsen 11 Kurt Bøgh 7 Bent Nørregaard-Jensen 5 Nils Schelde 1 Henning Hansen 13NOR 23 Reidar Eide 9 Odd Fossengen 4 Dag Løvaas 4 Edgar Stangeland 3 Svein Kaasa 34FIN 11 Hannu Känkänen 3 Kari Vuoristo 3 Haki Ahonen 3 Kakio Leppåsalko 1 Pekka Paljakka 1 Continental round Quarter-Final 11 June YUG Mladost Stadum, Prelog Pos.National team Pts. Riders1TCH 48 Jiří Štancl 12 Jan Holub I 12 Václav Verner 12 Petr Ondrašík 6 Miloslav Verner 62 BUL 23 Peter Iliev 8 Nedjelko Nedjelkov 7 Peter Kostov 5 Angel Eftimov 33YUG 22 Drasko Orsic 7 Evald Babic 6 Vlado Miler 6 Josip Francic 34YUG II 3 Milija Stojkovic 1 Stefan Kekec 1 Janez Tomazic 1 Jose Lazbaher 0 Quarter Final 18 June FRG Rodenbach Motodrom, Rodenbach Pos.National team Pts. Riders1FRG 39 Manfred Poschenreider 12 Rudi Kastl 11 Josef Angermüller 9 Jan Käter 72AUT 17Gunther Walla 7 Heinz Zimmermann 4 Josef Haider 4 Alex Taudtmann 23HUN 17 Ferencs Radacsi 7 Barnabas Gyepes 5 Pal Perenyi 4 Sandor Csatho 14Scandinavian Select 23 Jorn Mogensen 10 Stefan Salomonsson 6 Stefan Johansson 6 Erik Tilgaard 1 Austria awarded 2nd place because they had more heat winners than Hungary (2 to 0). East Germany withdrew and were replaced by Scandinavian Select who were ineligible to qualify for the next round. Semi-Final 1 July CSK Slaný Speedway Stadium, Slaný Pos.National team Pts. Riders1TCH 0 Milan Špinka 12 Zdeněk Majstr 9 Petr Ondrašík 9 Václav Verner 9 Jiří Štancl 82 FRG 0 Josef Angermüller 9 Jan Käter 8 Manfred Poschenreider 8 Rudolf Kastl 73BUL 0 Nedjelko Nedjelkov 4 Peter Iliev 3 Peter Petkov 3 Alexander Kostov 04AUT 0 Josef Haider 5 Gunther Walla 1 Alex Taudtmann 1 Michael Laussegger 1 Heinz Zimmermann 0 Final 23 July USSR Leningrad Speedway Stadium, Leningrad Pos.National team Pts. Riders1POL 40 Zenon Plech 12 Henryk Glücklich 10 Paweł Waloszek 7 Edward Jancarz 6 Jerzy Gryt 52URS 33Anatoli Kuzmin 11 Georgi Ivanov 9 Grigori Khlinovsky 6 Viktor Kalmikov 6 Gennady Kurilenko 13TCH 13 Jan Holub I 5 Zdeněk Majstr 3 Petr Ondrašík 3 Milan Špinka 1 Jiří Štancl 4FRG 9 Josef Angermüller 3 Jan Käter 3 Manfred Poschenreider 2 Helmut Reiter 1 Rudolf Kastl 0 World final 24 September FRG Olching Speedwaybahn Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st GBR 36 Ivan Mauger - 11 John Louis - 9 Ray Wilson - 8 Terry Betts - 8 Ronnie Moore - dnr2nd USSR 21 Anatoly Kuzmin - 6 Viktor Kalmykov - 5 Viktor Trofimov - 5 Grigory Khlinovsky - 5 Valery Gordeev - dnr3rd POL 21 Zenon Plech - 7 Henryk Glücklich - 6 Paweł Waloszek - 5 Zdzisław Dobrucki - 3 Marek Cieślak - 04th SWE 18 Christer Löfqvist - 6 Anders Michanek - 4 Tommy Jansson 4 Jan Simensen 3 Göte Nordin 1 Run-off for silver Soviet Union 7 (Kalmykov 3, Kuzmin 2, Khlinovsky 1, Trofimov 1) bt Poland 5 (Waloszek 3, Plech 2, Glücklich 0, Dobrucki 0) See also 1972 Individual Speedway World Championship 1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship References World Team Category:Speedway World Team Cup