1963 Speedway World Team Cup

4th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition December 2023 December 2023 1963 Speedway World Team Cup 1962 1964 1963 Speedway World Team Cup was the fourth 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 in Vienna, Austria. The World Champion title was won by Sweden (37 pts) who beat Czechoslovakia (27 pts), Great Britain (25 pts) and Poland (7 pts).http://edinburghspeedway.blogspot.com/2014/02/world-team-cup-1960-1990.html World Team Cup 1960-1990 Edinburgh Speedway 12 July 2021 thumb|right|250px|The Stadion Wien pictured here in 1965 was the venue for the 1963 final. Format 23 May - Målilla, Sweden (details) SWE 48 NOR 22 DEN 18 FIN 8 Canceled (details) GBR 13 June - Olching, West Germany (details) CSK 41 FRG 39 YUG 8 AUT 7 4 August - Ufa, Soviet Union (details) POL 40 USSR 39 GDR 15 BUL 1 31 August - Vienna, Austria (details) SWE 37 CSK 27 GBR 25 POL 7 Qualification Nordic Round 23 May SWE Målilla Motorbana, Målilla Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st SWE 48 Arne Carlsson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Björn Knutson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Per Olof Söderman - 12 (3,3,3,3) Per Tage Svensson - 12 (3,3,3,3)2nd NOR 22 Aage Hansen - 7 (2,1,2,2) Jon Ødegaard - 6 (1,2,1,2) Cato Agnor - 5 (2,0,1,2) Reidar Eide - 4 (1,1,1,1)3rd DEN 18 Paul Wissing - 8 (2,2,2,2) Erik Kastebo - 4 (0,2,2,0) Hans Möller - 4 (2,1,0,1) Einar Hansen - 2 (1,0,0,1)4 FIN 8 Esko Koponen - 5 (0,2,2,1) Matti Olin - 3 (1,1,1,0) Martti Assinen - 0 (0,0,0,0) Kari Ala-Sippola - 0 (0,0,0,0) British Round The British Round was cancelled. Great Britain was seeded to the Final. Central European Round 13 June FRG Olching, Olching Speedwaybahn Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st CSK 41 Antonín Kasper Sr. - 11 Stanislav Kubíček - 10 Karel Průša - 10 Luboš Tomíček Sr. - 10 2nd FRG 39 Josef Hofmeister - 12 (3,3,3,3) Manfred Poschenreider - 10 Heinrich Sprenger - 9 Alfred Aberl - 8 3rd YUG 8 Evald Babic - 3 Damijan Klasnetic - 3 Drago Perko - 2 Milan Kalisnik - 0 4 AUT 7 Kurt Schwingenschlögl - 4 Günther Walla - 3 Wilfried Vacano - 0 Leopold Dolansky - 0 East European Round 4 August USSR Stroitel Stadium, Ufa Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st POL 40 Antoni Woryna - 6 (2,2,2,-) Marian Kaiser - 10 (3,2,2,3) Joachim Maj - 2 (2,-,-,-) Henryk Żyto - 12 (3,3,3,3) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 10 (-,2,3,3\2) 2nd USSR 39 Boris Samorodov - 11 (2,3,3,3) Igor Plekhanov - 9 (2,3,2,2) Gennady Kurilenko - 10 (3,3,2,2) Viktor Shilo - NS Leonid Drobyazko - 9 (3,1,3,2) 3rd GDR 16 Jochen Dinse - 4 (0,2,1,1) Jürgen Hehlert - 4 (1,1,1,1) Günther Schelenz - 4 (1,1,1,1) Jürgen Rudolph - 4 (1,1,1,1) Heino Niemann - NS4 BUL 1 Milko Pejkov - 1 (1,0,-,-) Boris Damjanov - 0 (-,0,0,0) Krasimir Sokolov - 0 (0,0,0,0) Gavril Macev - 0 (0,0,-,0) Aleksander Stojanov - 0 (0,-,0\0,0) World final 31 August AUT Vienna, Stadion Wien Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st SWE 37 Björn Knutson - 11 (3,3,3,2) Per Olof Söderman - 10 (3,3,1,3) Ove Fundin - 7 (2,2,-,3) Göte Nordin - 6 (3,2,0,1) res. Rune Sörmander - 3 (-,-,3,-)2nd CSK 27 Antonín Kasper Sr. - 10 (2,3,2,3) Stanislav Kubíček - 7 (1,1,3,2) Miroslav Šmíd - 5 (2,1,1,1) Luboš Tomíček Sr. - 5 (0,1,2,2)3rd GBR 25 Barry Briggs - 12 (3,3,3,3) Peter Craven - 8 (2,2,2,2) Dick Fisher - 4 (0,2,1,1) Peter Moore - 1 (0,0,0,1) res. Leo McAuliffe - NS4 POL 7 Henryk Żyto - 4 (1,1,2,0) Marian Kaiser - 1 (0,0,1,0) Joachim Maj - 1 (1,0,-,0) Stanisław Tkocz - 1 (1,0,0,0) res. Andrzej Pogorzelski - 0 (-,-,0,-) See also 1963 Individual Speedway World Championship motorcycle speedway References 1963 World Team Category:August 1963 sports events in Europe