1981 Speedway World Team Cup

22nd edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition December 2023 December 2023 1981 Speedway World Team Cup 1980 1982 The 1981 Speedway World Team Cup was the 22nd 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 0-86215-017-5 The final took place at the Olching Speedwaybahn in Olching, West Germany.https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/2427/1981-world-team-cup-final Speedway riders, history and results wwosbackup 12 July 2021 Denmark won their second title. Ominously for the rest of the world the team contained a youthful Hans Nielsen and Erik Gundersen.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 2021 Qualification stage 1 Day Venue Winner Stage 1 17 May ENG Reading ENG England 17 May FRG Brokstedt FRG West Germany 17 May HUN Debrecen USSR USSR 28 May FIN Tampere DEN Denmark 26 June ITA Badia Polesine USSR USSR Commonwealth round 17 May ENG Smallmead Stadium, Reading Referee: SWE C. Ringstrom Att: 7,000 P1 ENG England Dave Jessup 3 2 3 2 Gordon Kennett 1 2 2 1 Chris Morton 2 2 2 3 Michael Lee 3 2 3 3 John Davis P2 USA United States Bruce Penhall 2 3 3 3 Bobby Schwartz 3 1 1 3 Dennis Sigalos 2 F 1 - Scott Autrey 2 3 1 2 Kelly Moran 2 3 AUS Australia Phil Crump 0 3 0 1 John Titman 1 1 2 2 Danny Kennedy 0 - - X Billy Sanders 3 3 1 0 Gary Guglielmi 1 2 4 NZL New Zealand Ivan Mauger 0 0 0 - Mitch Shirra 1 1 - 0 Bruce Cribb 1 0 0 - Larry Ross 0 0 - 1 Tony Briggs 3 0 1 0 * England & USA to Intercontinental Final Scandinavian round 28 May FIN Eteläpuisto, Tampere 1st2nd3rd4thDEN - 37Hans Nielsen - 11Bo Petersen - 10Erik Gundersen - 8Tommy Knudsen - 8SWE - 30Jan Andersson - 10Hans Danielsson - 8Richard Hellsen - 6Tommy Nilsson - 6FIN - 19Ari Koponen - 5Kai Niemi - 5Olli Tyrväinen - 4Pekka Hautamaki - 3Veijo Tuoriniemi - 2NOR - 10Rolf Gramstad - 8Dag Haaland - 2Jorn Haugvalstad - 0Yngve Madland - 0Roy Otto - 0 * Denmark & Sweden to Intercontinental Final Continental round 17 May FRG Holsteinring, Brokstedt P1 FRG West Germany Egon Müller 3 3 3 3 Georg Hack 2 3 3 3 Alois Wiesböck 3 3 3 3 Georg Gilgenreiner 3 0 3 2 Waldemar Bacik P2 NED Nederlands Henny Kroeze 2 3 2 2 Frits Koppe 2 0 - 2 Rudi Muts 2 2 1 1 Henk Steman 3 2 0 0 Wil Stroes 0 3 AUT Austria Adi Funk 1 0 2 1 Herbert Szerecs 1 1 2 1 Walter Grubmuler 1 2 1 3 Heinrich Schatzer 0 2 2 2 Robert Funk 4 BUL Bulgaria Nikolai Manev 1 1 0 0 Orlin Janakiev 0 1 1 0 Veselin Markov 0 0 0 0 Angel Eftimov 0 1 1 1 Zachari Zachariev * West Germany & Netherlands to Continental Semi-Final 17 May HUN Gázvezeték Street Sports Complex, Debrecen P1 USSR Soviet Union Mikhail Starostin 2 3 2 3 Grigory Khlinovsky 2 2 3 3 Valery Gordeev 3 2 2 2 Viktor Kuznetsov 2 3 3 2 Anatoly Maksimov P2 HUN Hungary Zoltan Hajdu 2 3 2 2 Istvan Sziraczki 3 2 3 2 Zoltán Adorján 3 3 1 3 Ferenc Farkash 1 - 2 - Janos Oresko 2 3 3 ITA Italy Mauro Ferraccioli 1 0 - 0 Giuseppe Marzotto 3 1 0 1 Armando Dal Chiele 1 1 1 - Giovanni Brizzolari 1 1 0 1 Gianni Famari 1 1 4 YUG Yugoslavia Vlado Kocuvan 0 0 0 1 Stefan Kekec 0 1 3 0 Darko Tominac 0 0 - 0 Krešo Omerzel - - 1 0 Ladislav Smidt 0 0 0 * Soviet Union & Hungary to Continental Semi-Final Semifinal 28 June 28 ITA Stadio Ottorino Verzaro, Badia Polesine 1st2nd3rd4thUSSR - 33Mikhail Starostin - 10Viktor Kuznetsov - 9Anatoly Maksimov - 9Grigory Khlinovsky - 5FRG - 32Karl Maier - 11Georg Hack - 10Frits Bauer - 4Georg Gilgenreiner - 3Egon Müller - 3HUN - 18Istvan Sziraczki - 9Ferenc Farkash - 4Laszlo Meszaros - 2Janos Oresko - 2Zoltán Adorján - 1NED - 13Henny Kroeze - 5Frits Koppe - 4Rudi Muts - 2Henk Steman - 2 * Soviet Union & West Germany to Continental Final Qualification stage 2 Day Venue Winner Stage 2 26 June ENG King's Lynn DEN Denmark 7 July USSR Leningrad FRG West Germany Continental Final 11 July USSR Leningrad Speedway Stadium, Leningrad P1 FRG West Germany Karl Maier 1 3 3 3 Alois Wiesböck 1 - - - Georg Hack 2 3 1 1 Georg Gilgenreiner - 0 3 0 Egon Müller 2 3 3 3 P2 USSR Soviet Union Grigory Khlinovsky 3 2 2 1 Anatoly Maksimov 2 1 - 2 Viktor Kuznetsov 3 2 2 1 Mikhail Starostin 3 1 X 2 Georgy Ivanov 0 3 CSK Czechoslovakia Aleš Dryml Sr. 1 2 2 2 Václav Verner 0 X 3 1 Milan Špinka 2 F - - Zdeněk Kudrna 0 - X - Jiří Štancl 1 2 3 2 4 POL Poland Edward Jancarz 1 2 1 0 Zenon Plech F 3 F - Roman Jankowski 3 F 0 3 Jerzy Rembas E T 1 0 Marek Kepa 0 * West Germany & Soviet Union to World Final Intercontinental Final 28 July ENG Norfolk Arena, King's Lynn Referee: AUS Sam Bass P1 DEN Denmark Ole Olsen 0 3 3 3 Tommy Knudsen 0 3 3 1 Erik Gundersen 2 2 3 2 Hans Nielsen 0 3 2 1 Preben Eriksen P2 ENG England Michael Lee 3 2 2 2 Chris Morton 3 1 3 2 Steve Bastable E 1 - 3 Dave Jessup 2 2 1 3 Kenny Carter 0 3 USA United States Bruce Penhall 3 3 2 1 Kelly Moran 3 0 2 0 Bobby Schwartz 2 1 1 2 Dennis Sigalos 2 2 1 1 Scott Autrey 4 SWE Sweden Anders Michanek 1 0 - - Jan Andersson 1 0 0 3 Richard Hellsen 1 0 0 0 Tommy Nilsson 1 1 1 0 Hans Danielsson 0 0 * Denmark & England to World Final World Final 16 August FRG Olching Speedwaybahn, Olchinghttp://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/wtc81.htm 1981 WORLD TEAM CUP International Speedway 15 July 2021 Referee: SWE C. Bergstrom P1 DEN Denmark Ole Olsen 2 1 3 - Hans Nielsen 3 3 3 2 Erik Gundersen 3 3 1 2 Tommy Knudsen 2 3 2 2 Finn Thomsen 1 P2 ENG England Dave Jessup E 1 - 2 Chris Morton 3 2 3 3 Kenny Carter 3 2 1 3 John Davis 1 2 2 E Gordon Kennett 1 3 FRG West Germany Karl Maier 2 1 2 3 Georg Hack 1 2 1 1 Georg Gilgenreiner 0 1 3 1 Egon Müller 2 3 2 3 Alois Wiesböck 4 USSR Soviet Union Valery Gordeev 0 0 0 0 Mikhail Starostin 0 0 F - Viktor Kuznetsov 1 0 0 1 Nikolay Kornev 1 - - E Anatoly Maksimov 0 0 0 See also 1981 Individual Speedway World Championship 1981 Speedway World Pairs Championship References 1981 World T