1964 Speedway World Team Cup

5th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1964 Speedway World Team Cup was the fifth edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.[1][2][3]

The final took place in Abensberg, West Germany. The World Champion title was won by Sweden (34 pts) who beat Soviet Union (27 pts), Great Britain (21 pts) and Poland (16 pts).[4][5]

Format

Qualifying roundSemifinalsFinal
Hillerød, Denmark (details)
 Sweden44
 Denmark27
Kraków, Poland (details) Finland15Abensberg, West Germany (details)
 Poland45 Norway10 Sweden34
 Czechoslovakia33 Soviet Union25
 West Germany14Lviv, Soviet Union (details) Great Britain*21
 Austria4 Soviet Union37 Poland16
 Poland34
Svetozarevo, Yugoslavia (details) Czechoslovakia23
 Soviet Union40 Yugoslavia2
 Bulgaria24
 Yugoslavia12
 East Germany12

* Great Britain seeded to the final

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World final

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Pos.National teamPts.Riders
1st Sweden34

Björn Knutson - 11 (3,3,2,3)
Göte Nordin - 10 (3,2,2,3)
Rune Sörmander - 7 (3,2,2,0)
Ove Fundin - 6 (0,-,3,3)
Sören Sjösten - 0 (-,0,-,-)

2nd Soviet Union25

Igor Plekhanov - 8 (2,3,1,2)
Gennady Kurilenko - 8 (2,1,3,2)
Yuri Chekranov - 6 (2,2,1,1)
Boris Samorodov - 3 (2,1,0,0)
Viktor Trofimov - NS

3rd Great Britain21

Barry Briggs - 9 (3,3,1,2)
Ken McKinlay - 7 (1,3,3,0)
Nigel Boocock - 3 (1,1,1,-)
Ron How - 2 (1,-,0,1)
Brian Brett - 0 (-,0,-,0)

4 Poland16

Andrzej Wyglenda - 8 (0,2,3,3)
Andrzej Pogorzelski - 3 (0,0,2,1)
Zbigniew Podlecki - 3 (1,1,1,0)
Marian Rose - 2 (-,0,0,2)
Marian Kaiser - 0 (0,-,-,-)

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