1961 Speedway World Team Cup

1961 Speedway World Team Cup was the second edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

The final took place in Wrocław, Poland.^[5] The World Champion title was won by Poland team (32 pts) who beat Sweden (31 pts), England (21 pts), and Czechoslovakia (12 pts).^[6]^[7]

Team	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
England	219	41	44	50	44	40
New Zealand	186	36	38	36	38	38
Australia	135	31	26	22	26	30

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Poland	48	1.Florian Kapała - 12 (3,3,3,3) 2.Henryk Żyto - 12 (3,3,3,3) 3.Stanisław Tkocz - 12 (3,3,3,3) 4.Konstanty Pociejkewicz - 12 (3,3,3,3) 17.Antoni Woryna - NS
	Soviet Union	30	5.Igor Plechanov - 8 (2,2,2,2) 6.Boris Samorodov - 8 (2,2,2,2) 7.Farid Szajnurov - 8 (2,2,2,2) 8.Viktor Kuznetsov - 6 (2,2,NS,2) 18.Vsevolod Nerytov - NS
	Bulgaria	14	13.Milko Pejkov - 4 (1,1,1,1) 14.Boris Damjanov - 3 (1,0,2,NS) 15.Dimitri Bajev - 3 (1,1,1,NS) 16.Plamen Aleksandrov - 4 (1,1,1,1) 20.Gavril Macev - NS
4	East Germany	4	9.Andreas Bocke - 0 (0,0,0,0) 10.Helmut Suchland - 1 (0,0,0,1) 11.Gunther Schelenz - 1 (0,1,0,0) 12.Wilhelm Gunther - 2 (0,0,1,1) 19.Andreas Mattscheck - NS

v t e Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup
Speedway World Team Cup	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Speedway World Cup (SWC)	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2023 2026
See also	Host cities Medalists Medal classification
Speedway World Pairs Championship Speedway of Nations

Qualification

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Poland	32	1.Mieczyslaw Polukard - 5 (2,1,2,-) 2.Marian Kaiser - 10 (3,3,1,3) 3.Henryk Żyto - 7 (1,0,3,3) 4.Florian Kapała - 6 (3,3,E,-) R.Stanisław Tkocz - 4 (-,-,2,2)
	Sweden	31	1.Bjorn Knutson - 7 (0,2,2,3) 2.Sören Sjösten - 2 (0,-,-,2) 3.Ove Fundin - 11 (2,3,3,3) 4.Per Tage Svensson - 7 (3,2,0,2) R.Rune Sörmander - 4 (-,2,2,-)
	England	21	1.Ron How - 3 (1,1,1,F) 2.Bob Andrews - 6 (1,1,3,1) 3.Peter Craven - 8 (2,3,2,1) 4.Ken McKinlay - 4 (2,1,E,1) R.Cyril Maidment - NS
4	Czechoslovakia	12	1.Luboš Tomíček - 7 (1,2,3,1) 2.Antonín Kasper Sr. - 4 (3,0,1,0) 3.Stanislav Svoboda - 0 (F,0,0,0) 4.Bohumír Bartoněk - 1 (0,0,1,0) R.Libor Dušanek - NS