1969 Speedway World Team Cup

The 1969 Speedway World Team Cup was the tenth edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The final took place at the in Rybnik, Poland. The host nation won the title for the fourth time.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Qualification[]

British Round[]

Great Britain seeded to Final (Commonwealth riders eligible for the British team)

Scandinavian Round[]

June 5
Oslo

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Sweden - Bernt Persson ? ? ?	Norway - Øyvind S. Berg Reidar Eide ? ?	Denmark - ? ? ? ?	Finland - ? ? ? ?

* Sweden to Final

Contmnental Round[]

Continental Semifinal

June 15
Maribor

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
East Germany - 41 - 12 Jochen Dinse - 10 Hans Jürgen Fritz - 10 - 9	West Germany - 23 Manfred Poschenreider - 10 - 7 - 4 - 2	Hungary - 16 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 1	- 15 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1

* East Germany to Continental Final

Continental Final

August 3
Leningrad
Att: 9,000

Placing	Team / Rider name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pts	17	18	19	20
1	Soviet Union	41	0	3	6	8	11	14	17	20	22	24	27	30	32	35	38	41		41	41	41	41
	(9) Gennady Kurilenko	11			3		3					2						3	11
	(10) Vladimir Smirnov	10				2		3			2						3		10
	(11) Valeri Klementiev	12		3						3			3			3			12
	(12) Yury Dubinin	8	E						3					3	2				8
	(19) Viktor Trofimov	0																	0

2	Poland	35	3	5	7	10	12	14	14	16	19	22	24	26	29	31	33	35		35	35	35	35
	(1) Zbigniew Podlecki	9				3				2				2				2	9
	(2) Antoni Woryna	4			2				F				2				-		4
	(3) Edward Jancarz	10		2				2				3			3				10
	(4) Andrzej Wyglenda	10	3				2				3					2			10
	(17) Henryk Glücklich	2															2		2

3	East Germany	10	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	6	7	7	8	9	10	10	10	10		10	10	10	10
	(13)	2		0					1		1							0	2
	(14) Jochen Dinse	3	2							1		0					F		3
	(15)	2			1			0						1		0			2
	(16) Hans Jürgen Fritz	3				0	1						1		1				3
	(20) Dieter Tetzlaff	0																	0

4	Czechoslovakia	9	0	1	1	2	2	3	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	7	8	9		9	9	9	9
	(5)	2	F					1					0					1	2
	(6) Jan Holub I	2		1			0							0			1		2
	(7)	5				1			2			1				1			5
	(8)	0			0					E	0				E				0
	(18) Jiří Štancl	0																	0
Placing	Team / Rider name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pts	17	18	19	20

M - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell

Helmet colours were permanent for each team (Red, Blue, White and Yellow/Black). Colours in diagrams indicate gate positions:
gate A – inside	gate B	gate C	gate D – outside

* Soviet Union and Poland to Final

World Final[]

21 September
POL Rybnik,
Att: 45,000

Placing	Team / Rider name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pts	17	18	19	20
1	Poland	31	3	5	5	6	9	11	14	16	16	16	19	22	25	25	28	31		31	31	31	31
	(5) Edward Jancarz	11	3					2					3					3	11
	(6) Andrzej Wyglenda	11		2			3							3			3		11
	(7) Stanisław Tkocz	4				1			3			0				F			4
	(8) Henryk Glucklich	3			F					-	-				3				3
	(18) Andrzej Pogorzelski	2								2	0								2

2	Great Britain	27	2	5	7	7	7	8	10	11	14	17	17	19	21	24	25	27		27	27	27	27
	(1) Martin Ashby	5				0				1				2				2	5
	(2) Nigel Boocock	5			2				2				F				1		5
	(3) Ivan Mauger	9		3				1				3			2				9
	(4) Barry Briggs	8	2				F				3					3			8
	(17) Pete Smith	0																	0

3	Soviet Union	23	0	1	4	6	8	11	12	15	17	19	20	20	20	20	22	23		23	23	23	23
	(9) Gennady Kurilenko	8			3		2					2						1	8
	(10) Vladimir Smirnov	9				2		3			2						2		9
	(11) Valeri Klementiev	5		1						3			1			F			5
	(12) Yury Dubinin	1	F						1					0	-				1
	(19) Viktor Trofimov	0													0				0

4	Sweden	12	1	1	2	5	6	6	6	6	7	8	10	11	12	12	12	12		12	12	12	12
	(13) Bengt Jansson	1		0					0		1							0	1
	(14) Sören Sjösten	2	1							0		1					0		2
	(15) Ove Fundin	2			1			0						1		-			2
	(16) Anders Michanek	7				3	1						2		1				7
	(20) Torbjörn Harrysson	0																	0
Placing	Team / Rider name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pts	17	18	19	20