1968 Speedway World Team Cup

9th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition December 2023 December 2023 1968 Speedway World Team Cup 1967 1969 The 1968 Speedway World Team Cup was the ninth 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 Wembley Stadium in London. The title was won by for the first time by the Great Britain national speedway team. The previous eight editions had all been won by Sweden (five wins) or Poland (three wins).http://edinburghspeedway.blogspot.com/2014/02/world-team-cup-1960-1990.html World Team Cup 1960-1990 Edinburgh Speedway 13 July 2021https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/board/65/speedway-world-cup Speedway riders, history and results wwosbackup 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 Continental Semi-Final 16 June GDR Paul Greifzu Stadium, Stralsund Pos.National team Pts. Riders1GDR 47 Jochen Dinse 12 Jürgen Hehlert 12 Gerhard Uhlenbrock 12 Hans Jürgen Fritz 112 HUN 18 Barnabas Gyepes 8 Istvan Radoczi 5 Janos Bernath 4 Ferenc Radacsi 13FRG 18Manfred Poschenreider 6 Heinrich Sprenger 5 Rudolf Kastl 5 Dieter Dauderer 24YUG 13 Ivan Molan 5 Franc Babic 4 Valentin Medved 2 Drago Perko 2 Continental Final 28 June TCH Slaný Speedway Stadium, Slaný Pos.National team Pts. Riders1POL 43 Andrzej Wyglenda 12 Paweł Waloszek 12 Antoni Woryna 12 Henryk Glucklich 6 Jerzy Padewski 12TCH 26Jan Holub I 9 Jaroslav Volf 8 Frantisek Ledecky 6 Miloslav Verner 3 Antonín Šváb Sr. 03URS 19 Viktor Trofimov 7 Vladimir Smirnov 6 Yuri Chekranov 4 Igor Plechanov 1 Gennady Kurilenko 14GDR 8 Hans Jürgen Fritz 3 Jochen Dinse 2 Gerhard Uhlenbrock 2 Jürgen Hehlert 1 Great Britain (which included riders from Australia and New Zealand) and Sweden were seeded to the final. WORLD FINAL 21 September ENG London, Wembley StadiumPos. National team Pts.1 GBR 402 SWE 303 POL 194 TCH 7 World final thumb|right|150px|The recently crowned world individual champion Ivan Mauger from New Zealand helped Great Britain win their first World Cup. 21 September ENG Wembley Stadium Pos. National team Pts. Riders1st GBR 40 Ivan Mauger - 12 Nigel Boocock - 10 Martin Ashby - 8 Barry Briggs - 7 Norman Hunter - 32nd SWE 30 Ove Fundin - 11 Bengt Jansson - 7 Anders Michanek - 7 Olle Nygren - 3 Torbjörn Harrysson - 23rd POL 19 Edmund Migoś - 8 Edward Jancarz - 6 Andrzej Wyglenda - 2 Henryk Glücklich - 2 Paweł Waloszek - 14th TCH 7 Antonín Kasper Sr. - 3 Luboš Tomíček Sr. - 2 Jan Holub I 1 Jaroslav Volf 1 See also 1968 Individual Speedway World Championship 1968 Speedway World Pairs Championship References Category:Speedway World Team Cup Category:1968 in speedway