1962 Speedway World Team Cup

1962 Speedway World Team Cup was the third edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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).^[4]^[5]

Format[]

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Sweden	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) - NS
	Norway	24	Aage Hansen - 9 (3,1,3,2) Sverre Harrfeldt - 8 (1,2,2,3) - 5 (0,2,2,1) - 2 (1,0,0,1) - NS
	Denmark	17	- 3 (2,0,1,0) Kurt W. Petersen - 9 (2,2,3,2) Svend Nissen - 5 (1,2,1,1) - 0 (0,0,0,0) Bent Jensen - NS
4	Finland	14	- 0 (0,-,-,-) - 3 (0,1,0,2) Timo Laine - 5 (2,1,1,1) - 4 (2,0,0,2) - 2 (-,1,1,0,)

The British Round was cancelled. Great Britain was seeded to the World Final.

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Czechoslovakia	46	Bedřich Slaný - 12 Jaroslav Wolf - 12 Karel Průša - 11 Luboš Tomíček - 11
		25	- 9 - 7 - 5 - 4
	Czechoslovakia	21*	- 8 Pavel Mares - 5 - 4 Stanislav Svoboda - 4
4	Austria	4	Josef Bössner - 3 - 1 - 0 - 0

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Poland	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. - 12 (3,3,3,3) 17.Joachim Maj - NS
	Soviet Union	33	13.Igor Plechanov - NS 14.Boris Samorodov - 8 (2,2,2,2) 15.Farid Szajnurov - 9 (2,2,3,2) 16. - 9 (2,2,2,3) 20.Vladimir Sokolov - 7 (2,2,2,1)
		13	5. - 6 (1,1,2,2) 6. - 2 (1,0,0,1) 7. - 3 (1,1,1,0) 8. - 2 (0,0,0,2) 18. - NS
4	East Germany	7	9. - 2 (0,1,0,1) 10. - 0 (0,-,-,-) 11.Jürgen Hehlert - 1 (1,0,0,0) 12. - 1 (0,0,1,-) 19. - 3 (-,1,1,1/0,)

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Sweden	36	Björn Knutsson - 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)
	Great Britain	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)
	Poland	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	Czech Republic	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,-)

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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
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See also	Host cities Medalists Medal classification
Speedway World Pairs Championship Speedway of Nations