1966 Speedway World Team Cup

7th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition December 2023 December 2023 1966 Speedway World Team Cup 1965 1967 thumb|250px|The venue of the 1966 final in Wrocław was known as the General Karol Świerczewski stadium at the time. The 1966 Speedway World Team Cup was the seventh 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 Wrocław, Poland. The title was won by Poland for the third time.http://edinburghspeedway.blogspot.com/2014/02/world-team-cup-1960-1990.html World Team Cup 1960-1990 Edinburgh Speedway 12 July 2021https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/2428/1966-world-team-cup-final Speedway riders, history and results wwosbackup 12 July 2021 Qualification Continental Semi-Final 31 July GDR Glück-Auf Stadion, Senftenberg Pos.National team Pts. Riders1GDR 32Jochen Dinse 10 Bruno Bülau 9 Hans Jürgen Fritz 7 Gerhard Uhlenbrock 62 HUN 31Barnabas Gyepes 11 Ferenc Radasci 10 Janos Bernath 5 Istvan Pasztor 53YUG 26 Milovan Stankovic 12 Valentin Medved 5 Franc Babic 5 Drago Perko 44AUT 6 Alfred Sitzwoh 2 Helmut Walch 2 Gunther Walla 2 Kurt Schwingenschlogl 0 Continental Final 14 August USSR Army Sports Club Stadium, Lviv Pos.National team Pts. Riders1POL 38 Marian Rose 12 Antoni Woryna 10 Paweł Waloszek 9 Andrzej Wyglenda 72URS 31Boris Samorodov 11 Farid Szajnurov 8 Viktor Trofimov 8 Gennady Kurilenko 2 Vladimir Sokolov 23TCH 25 Antonín Kasper Sr. 7 Antonín Šváb Sr. 7 Luboš Tomíček Sr. 6 Pavel Mares 54GDR 1 Bruno Bülau 1 Jochen Dinse 0 Hans Jürgen Fritz 0 Gerhard Uhlenbrock 0 Great Britain and Sweden seeded to final. World final September 11 POL Wrocław, General Karol Świerczewski Stadium Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st POL 40 Andrzej Wyglenda - 11 (3,2,3,3) Antoni Woryna - 11 (3,2,3,3) Marian Rose - 10 (1,3,3,3) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 8 (3,3,2,ef) Edmund Migoś - NS2nd USSR 26 Boris Samorodov - 10 (2,3,2,3) Igor Plekhanov - 6 (2,1,1,2) Viktor Trofimov - 6 (2,2,1,1) Farid Szajnurov - 4 (2,1,0,1) Yuri Chekranov - NS3rd SWE 22 Bjorn Knutson - 11 (3,3,3,2) Leif Enecrona - 4 (1,2,1,-) Göte Nordin - 3 (1,1,1,0) Ove Fundin - 2 (ef,-,0,2) Leif Larsson - 2 (-,0,-,2) 4 GBR 8 Nigel Boocock - 4 (F,1,2,1) Ivan Mauger - 3 (0,ef,2,1) Barry Briggs - 1 (1,0,0,ef) Terry Betts - 0 (0,0,-,0) Colin Pratt - 0 (-,-,0,-) See also 1966 Individual Speedway World Championship References Category:Speedway World Team Cup Category:1966 in speedway