1962 Speedway World Team Cup

3rd edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition October 2023 October 2023 1962 Speedway World Team Cup 1961 1963 1962 Speedway World Team Cup was the third 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 Slaný, Czechoslovakia. The World Champion title was won by Sweden (36 pts) who beat Great Britain (24 pts), Poland (20 pts) and Czechoslovakia (16 pts).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/2435/1962-world-team-cup-final Speedway riders, history and results wwosbackup 12 July 2021 Format no 23 April - Vetlanda (details) SWE 41 NOR 24 DEN 17 FIN 14 Canceled (details) GBR 15 July - Liberec (details) CSK 46 YUG 25 CSK B 21 AUT 4 15 July - Rzeszów (details) POL 43 USSR 33 BUL 13 GDR 7 29 July - Slaný (details) SWE 36 GBR 24 POL 20 CSK 16 Qualification Nordic Round 23 April SWE Vetlanda, Vetlanda Motorstadion Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st SWE 41 Joel Jansson - 6 (1,3,2,0) Ove Fundin - 12 (3,3,3,3) Rune Sörmander - 12 (3,3,3,3) Leif Larsson - 11 (3,3,2,3) Göran Johansson - NS2nd NOR 24 Aage Hansen - 9 (3,1,3,2) Sverre Harrfeldt - 8 (1,2,2,3) Egil Bratvold - 5 (0,2,2,1) Cato Agnor - 2 (1,0,0,1) Per Aulie - NS3rd DEN 17 Einar Hansen - 3 (2,0,1,0) Kurt W. Petersen - 9 (2,2,3,2) Svend Nissen - 5 (1,2,1,1) John S. Andersen - 0 (0,0,0,0) Bent Jensen - NS4 FIN 14 Illka Nielminen - 0 (0,-,-,-) Antti Pajari - 3 (0,1,0,2) Timo Laine - 5 (2,1,1,1) Kalevi Lahtinen - 4 (2,0,0,2) Esko Koponen - 2 (-,1,1,0,) British Round The British Round was cancelled. Great Britain was seeded to the World Final. Central European Round 15 July CSK Pavlovičky Stadion, Liberec West Germany was replaced by second team from Czechoslovakia Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st CSK 46 Bedřich Slaný - 12 Jaroslav Wolf - 12 Karel Průša - 11 Luboš Tomíček - 112nd YUG 25 Franc Babic - 9 Valent Medved - 7 Drago Perko - 5 Drago Regvart - 4 3rd CSK 21* Zdeněk Kovář - 8 Pavel Mareš - 5 František Hubner - 4 Stanislav Svoboda - 4 4 AUT 4 Josef Bössner - 3 Johan Hartl - 1 Helmut Happer - 0 Kurt Schwingenschlogl - 0 East European Round 15 July POL Rybnik, Rybnik Municipal Stadium Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st POL 43 1.Florian Kapała - 12 (3,3,3,3) 2.Marian Kaiser - 12 (3,3,3,3) 3.Henryk Żyto - 7 (3,3,1,X) 4.Stefan Kepa - 12 (3,3,3,3) 17.Joachim Maj - NS2nd USSR 33 13.Igor Plechanov - NS 14.Boris Samorodov - 8 (2,2,2,2) 15.Farid Szajnurov - 9 (2,2,3,2) 16.Leonid Drobyazko - 9 (2,2,2,3) 20.Vladimir Sokolov - 7 (2,2,2,1)3rd BUL 13 5.Milko Pejkov - 6 (1,1,2,2) 6.Boris Damjanov - 2 (1,0,0,1) 7.Dimitri Bajev - 3 (1,1,1,0) 8.Krasimir Sokolov - 2 (0,0,0,2) 18.Simeon Lukanov - NS4 GDR 7 9.Gunther Schelenz - 2 (0,1,0,1) 10.Josef Kohl - 0 (0,-,-,-) 11.Jürgen Hehlert - 1 (1,0,0,0) 12.Wilhelm Gunther - 1 (0,0,1,-) 19.Werner Frenzel - 3 (-,1,1,1/0,) World final 29 July CSK Slaný, Slaný Speedway Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st SWE 36 Björn Knutson - 10 (3,2,3,2) Soren Sjösten -10 (3,3,3,1) Ove Fundin - 9 (0,3,3,3) Göte Nordin - 4 (0,1,3,-) Rune Sörmander - 3 (-,-,-,3)2nd GBR 24 Ronnie Moore - 10 (3,3,1,3) Barry Briggs - 8 (2,2,2,2) Peter Craven - 6 (1,1,2,2) Ron How - 0 (0,0,0,-) Cyril Maidment - 0 (-,-,-,0)3rd POL 20 Marian Kaiser - 9 (2,3,1,3) Florian Kapała - 5 (2,1,2,0) Joachim Maj - 4 (1,2,0,1) Paweł Waloszek - 2 (2,0,-,0) Mieczysław Połukard - 0 (-,-,0,-)4 Czechoslovakia 16 Luboš Tomíček - 7 (3,1,2,1) Bedřich Slaný - 4 (1,0,1,2) Jaroslav Volf - 3 (0,2,1,0) Karel Průša - 2 (1,0,-,1) Bohumír Bartoněk - 0 (-,-,0,-) See also motorcycle speedway 1962 Individual Speedway World Championship References 1962 World Team Category:July 1962 sports events in Europe