1970 Individual Speedway World Championship

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The 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 25th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Ivan Mauger became the first rider to win the title in three consecutive years, his five ride 15 point maximum took him to third in the all time list behind Ove Fundin and Barry Briggs. The Poles Paweł Waloszek and Antoni Woryna took silver and bronze respectively in their home nation at the Olympic Stadium.[7]

Format changes[]

The format of the Championship changed again for the 1970 event. This time the Polish riders were allowed six places in the World Final to be held in Poland. All other nations had to go through the European Final route to provide the remaining 10 riders for the World Final.

First Round[]

  • British/Commonwealth Qualifying - 16 to British/Commonwealth Final
  • Scandinavian Qualifying - 16 to Nordic Final
  • Continental Qualifying - 16 to Continental Final

British/Commonwealth Qualifying[]

Date Venue Winner Runner-up 3rd place
Preliminary Round
25 April United KingdomCoventry United Kingdom Nigel Boocock New Zealand Bruce Cribb Australia Peter Vandenberg
25 April United KingdomKings Lynn New Zealand Ronnie Moore New Zealand Wayne Briggs United Kingdom Terry Betts
25 April United KingdomBelle Vue United Kingdom Chris Pusey United Kingdom Tommy Roper United Kingdom Cyril Maidment
27 April United KingdomNewcastle New Zealand Barry Briggs Australia Jim Airey New Zealand Rick Timmo
27 April United KingdomExeter New Zealand Ivan Mauger United Kingdom Bob Kilby United Kingdom Martin Ashby
28 April United KingdomWest Ham New Zealand Ivan Mauger United Kingdom Bob Kilby Australia Charlie Monk
28 April United KingdomLeicester United Kingdom Ray Wilson Australia John Boulger United Kingdom Graham Plant
29 April United KingdomPoole United Kingdom Trevor Hedge United Kingdom Pete Smith Australia Gordon Guasco
30 April United KingdomWimbledon United Kingdom Eric Boocock New Zealand Ronnie Moore United Kingdom Trevor Hedge
30 April United KingdomSheffield Australia Jim Airey United Kingdom United Kingdom Nigel Boocock
30 April United KingdomOxford Scotland Jim McMillan Australia John Boulger United Kingdom
1 May United KingdomWolverhampton United Kingdom Nigel Boocock United Kingdom Martin Ashby United Kingdom Norman Hunter
1 May United KingdomHackney New Zealand Barry Briggs New Zealand Ronnie Moore Australia Jimmy Gooch
1 May ScotlandGlasgow Australia Charlie Monk United Kingdom Scotland Jim McMillan
1 May WalesNewport New Zealand Bill Andrew United Kingdom Australia Jim Airey
2 May United KingdomSwindon New Zealand Barry Briggs United Kingdom Bob Kilby United Kingdom Ray Wilson
2 May United KingdomHalifax United Kingdom Arnold Haley United Kingdom United Kingdom Eric Boocock
2 May United KingdomCradley Heath United Kingdom Colin Pratt New Zealand Bob Andrews United Kingdom Jack Biggs
13 May United KingdomCoventry United Kingdom Nigel Boocock Scotland Ken McKinlay United Kingdom Rick France
Semi-Finals
19 May United KingdomLeicester New Zealand Ivan Mauger New Zealand Ronnie Moore Wales Howard Cole
21 May United KingdomSheffield New Zealand Barry Briggs Scotland Jim McMillan United Kingdom Ray Wilson

Swedish Qualifying[]

Date Venue Winner Runner-up 3rd place
Qualifications
26 April SwedenMalilla Sweden Bengt Jansson Sweden Conny Samuelsson Sweden
1 May SwedenVisby Sweden Leif Enecrona Sweden Göte Nordin Sweden Olle Nygren
3 May SwedenVetlanda Sweden Anders Michanek Sweden Bo Josefsson Sweden
22 May SwedenLinköping Sweden Sören Sjösten Sweden Bernt Persson Sweden Ove Fundin
Semi-Final
25 May SwedenBorås Sweden Sören Sjösten Sweden Anders Michanek Sweden Olle Nygren
28 May SwedenGöteborg Sweden Ove Fundin Sweden Göte Nordin Sweden

Continental Qualifying[]

Date Venue Winner Runner-up 3rd place
Quarter-Finals
9 May East GermanyMeissen Czechoslovakia Jan Holub I Soviet Union Valery Gordeev East Germany
10 May HungaryMiskolc Czechoslovakia Václav Verner Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Volf Soviet Union Viktor Trofimov
10 May AustriaGraz Soviet Union Vladimir Gordeev Czechoslovakia East Germany Jochen Dinse
10 May Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaZagreb Czechoslovakia Pavel Mares Soviet Union East Germany Jürgen Hehlert
Semi-Finals
6 June CzechoslovakiaPardubice Soviet Union Valeri Klementiev Soviet Union Vladimir Smirnov Soviet Union Yury Dubinin
7 June PolandBydgoszcz Soviet Union Gennady Kurilenko Soviet Union Vladimir Gordeev Soviet Union Viktor Kalmykov

Second Round[]

  • British/Commonwealth Final - 8 to British/Commonwealth/Nordic final
  • Nordic Final - 8 to British/Commonwealth/Nordic final

British/Commonwealth Final[]

Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos
1 New Zealand (13) Ivan Mauger 14 2 3 3 3 3 14 1
2 New Zealand (4) Ronnie Moore 13 3 3 2 2 3 13 2
3 New Zealand (3) Roy Trigg 12+3 1 3 3 3 2 12 3
4 United Kingdom (2) Arnold Haley 12+2 2 3 3 2 2 12 4
5 New Zealand (6) Barry Briggs 10 3 0 3 3 1 10 5
6 United Kingdom (16) Trevor Hedge 9 3 1 2 2 1 9 6
7 Australia (7) Jim Airey 8 0 1 1 3 3 8 7
8 Australia (14) John Boulger 8 1 2 1 2 2 8 8
9 United Kingdom (11) Nigel Boocock 7 3 2 0 1 1 7 9
10 United Kingdom (12) Chris Pusey 6 2 2 2 0 0 6 10
11 Australia (1) Charlie Monk 5 0 2 1 1 1 5 11
12 United Kingdom (8) Martin Ashby 5 1 0 2 0 2 5 12
13 United Kingdom (10) Ray Wilson 5 0 1 0 1 3 5 13
14 Wales (5) Howard Cole 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 14
15 United Kingdom (9) Terry Betts 2 1 1 0 0 X 2 15
16 United Kingdom (15) Jim McMillan 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 16
United Kingdom (17) Bob Kilby 0 0
United Kingdom (18) Tommy Roper 0 0
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

Nordic Final[]

  • June 4, 1970
  • Sweden Eskilstuna
  • First 8 to British-Nordic Final
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21
1 Sweden (7) Göte Nordin 15 3 3 3 3 3 15 1
2 Sweden (2) Sören Sjösten 12 3 3 3 1 2 12 2
3 Sweden (12) Anders Michanek 11 3 1 2 2 3 11 3
4 Sweden (13) Bengt Larsson 10 1 3 2 3 1 10 4
5 Norway (3) Reidar Eide 10 2 2 3 1 2 10 5
6 Sweden (5) Ove Fundin 9 2 E 1 3 3 9 6
7 Denmark (16) Ole Olsen 9 3 T 3 2 1 9 7
8 Sweden (11) Bengt Jansson 9 2 1 2 2 2 9 8
9 Norway (8) Øyvind Berg 8 1 2 2 0 3 8 9
10 Norway (4) Odd Fossengen 7 1 3 1 1 1 7 10
11 Sweden (6) 6 0 2 1 3 0 6 11
12 Denmark (15) Bent Nørregaard-Jensen 6 2 0 0 2 2 6 12
13 Denmark (1) 3 F 2 0 1 0 3 13
14 Norway (9) Dag Lovaas 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 14
15 Sweden (14) Olle Nygren 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 15
16 Finland (10) 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 16
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

Third Round[]

  • British/Nordic Final - 8 to European Final
  • Continental Final - 8 to European Final

British Nordic Final[]

Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos
1 Sweden (2) Sören Sjösten 14 3 3 2 3 3 14 1
2 Denmark (13) Ole Olsen 13 2 3 3 2 3 13 2
3 New Zealand (14) Barry Briggs 12 3 2 1 3 3 12 3
4 New Zealand (11) Ronnie Moore 11 3 3 3 0 2 11 4
5 New Zealand (3) Ivan Mauger 10 0 2 3 3 2 10 5
6 Australia (5) Jim Airey 10 3 1 3 2 1 10 6
7 Sweden (1) Bengt Jansson 10 2 2 2 1 3 10 7
8 Sweden (4) Anders Michanek 9 1 3 2 3 0 9 8
9 Sweden (9) Ove Fundin 7 1 0 2 2 2 7 9
10 United Kingdom (7) Trevor Hedge 6 1 1 1 2 1 6 10
11 Australia (12) John Boulger 4 2 0 1 0 1 4 11
12 United Kingdom (16) Arnold Haley 4 0 2 1 1 0 4 12
13 Sweden (8) Göte Nordin 4 2 1 0 1 E 4 13
14 Norway (10) Reidar Eide 3 F 1 0 0 2 3 14
15 United Kingdom (15) Roy Trigg 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 15
16 Sweden (6) Bengt Larsson 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 16
R1 United Kingdom (R1) Nigel Boocock 0 0 R1
R2 Norway (R2) Øyvind Berg 0 0 R2
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

Continental Final[]

  • June 2, 1970
  • East Germany Abensberg
  • First 8 to European Final
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos
1 East Germany (9) Hans Jürgen Fritz 10 2 3 3 2 10 1
2 Soviet Union (10) Valeri Klementiev 9 3 2 1 3 9 2
3 Czechoslovakia (7) 8 2 3 3 0 8 3
4 Soviet Union (15) Yury Dubinin 8 3 0 2 3 8 4
5 Soviet Union (1) Gennady Kurilenko 8 2 1 3 2 8 5
6 Soviet Union (2) 7 3 1 0 3 7 6
7 Soviet Union (12) Vladimir Gordeev 6 0 0 3 3 6 7
8 Soviet Union (16) Viktor Kalmykov 6 0 3 1 2 6 8
9 Czechoslovakia (5) Jiri Stancl 6 3 2 1 0 6 9
10 Soviet Union (11) Grigory Khlinovsky 6 1 2 2 1 6 10
11 East Germany (14) Dieter Tetzlaff 6 2 3 0 1 6 11
12 East Germany (8) Jürgen Hehlert 5 0 1 2 2 5 12
13 Soviet Union (13) 4 1 0 2 1 4 13
14 Soviet Union (6) 1 1 0 0 0 1 14
15 Soviet Union (4) 0 F - - - 0 15
16 Soviet Union (3) Viktor Trofimov 0 F - - - 0 16
R1 Czechoslovakia (R1) Antonín Šváb Sr. 4 1 1 1 1 4 R1
R2 Soviet Union (R2) Gabdrakhman Kadyrov 3 0 2 0 1 3 R2
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

Fourth Round[]

  • European Final - 10 to World Final
  • Polish Qualifications - 6 to World Final

European Final[]

  • July 20, 1970
  • Soviet Union Leningrad
  • First 8 to World Final
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos
1 New Zealand (4) Ivan Mauger 14 2 3 3 3 3 14 1
2 Soviet Union (1) Vladimir Gordeev 11 3 0 3 2 3 11 2
3 Soviet Union (10) Gennady Kurilenko 11 1 3 2 3 2 11 3
4 Sweden (12) Sören Sjösten 11 2 2 3 3 1 11 4
5 Denmark (5) Ole Olsen 11 2 3 2 2 2 11 5
6 New Zealand (11) Barry Briggs 10 3 3 1 3 0 10 6
7 Sweden (3) Anders Michanek 9 0 2 3 1 3 9 7
8 Soviet Union (2) Valeri Klementiev 8 1 2 1 1 3 8 8
9 United Kingdom (15) Trevor Hedge 6 3 0 0 2 1 6 9
10 Soviet Union (13) Yury Dubinin 6 2 2 0 2 0 6 10
11 New Zealand (7) Ronnie Moore 5 3 1 1 F - 5 11
12 East Germany (6) Hans Jürgen Fritz 5 0 1 2 0 2 5 12
13 Soviet Union (14) 5 1 0 2 1 1 5 13
14 Soviet Union (9) Viktor Kalmykov 5 0 1 1 1 2 5 14
15 Australia (8) Jim Airey 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 15
16 Czechoslovakia (16) 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 16
R1 Sweden (R1) Bengt Jansson 0 0 R1
R2 Soviet Union (R2) 0 0 0 R2
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

Polish Qualifications[]

  • Marked in green to World Final
Pos. Rider Round Scores Total
1 Poland Jan Mucha 6+14+12+13+12+8+6+13 72
2 Poland Pawel Waloszek 9+12+11+6+12+11+12+13 71
3 Poland Andrzej Wyglenda 8+12+9+14+14+5+10+9 68
4 Poland Antoni Woryna 9+5+14+10+8+12+10+5 63
5 Poland Henryk Glucklich 12+9+3+9+9+6+12+7 58
6 Poland Jerzy Szczakiel 11+12+8+11+6+7+9+ns 58
7 Poland Zygfryd Friedek 7+7+9+7+10+12+11+ns 56
8 Poland 6+11+10+8+6+6+ns+13 54
9 Poland 10+4+8+9+8+7+7+6 49
10 Poland Edmund Migoś 7+4+5+9+7+9+11+1 48
11 Poland Zygmunt Pytko 7+3+8+3+ns+7+10+0 38
12 Poland 6+4+5+3+0+11+6+ns 35
13 Poland Henryk Żyto 8+8+4+5+ns+5+0+4 34
14 Poland Jerzy Trzeszkowski 0+7+7+0+5+ns+ns+12 31
15 Poland Piotr Bruzda 7+2+2+1+7+5+3+5 29
16 Poland Stanisław Tkocz 5+4+5+9+3+ns+ns+ns 26
17 Poland Zbigniew Podlecki ns+ns+ns+ns+ns+2+5+11 18
18 Poland ns+ns+ns+ns+ns+6+5+ns 11
19 Poland ns+ns+ns+ns+ns+ns+3+7 10
20 Poland ns+ns+ns+ns+8+ns+ns+ns 8
21 Poland ns+ns+ns+ns+ns+ns+ns+8 8

World Final[]

Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos
1 New Zealand (10) Ivan Mauger 15 3 3 3 3 3 15 1
2 Poland (16) Paweł Waloszek 14 3 3 3 2 3 14 2
3 Poland (1) Antoni Woryna 13 3 3 2 3 2 13 3
4 Sweden (15) Sören Sjösten 9 2 3 1 3 0 9 4
5 Poland (2) Henryk Glücklich 9 2 2 3 2 0 9 5
6 Soviet Union (13) Valeri Klementiev 8 0 1 1 3 3 8 6
7 New Zealand (11) Barry Briggs 7 2 1 0 1 3 7 7
8 Poland (14) Andrzej Wyglenda 7 1 0 3 2 1 7 8
9 Sweden (4) Anders Michanek 7 0 1 2 2 2 7 9
10 Denmark (7) Ole Olsen 6 3 2 0 E 1 6 10
11 Poland (9) Jan Mucha 6 1 2 0 1 2 6 11
12 East Germany (3) Hans Jürgen Fritz 5 1 0 1 1 2 5 12
13 Soviet Union (6) Vladimir Gordeev 5 2 1 1 0 1 5 13
14 Soviet Union (12) Gennady Kurilenko 2 F 2 F - - 2 14
15 Poland (8) Zygfryd Friedek 2 F 0 2 F - 2 15
16 United Kingdom (5) Trevor Hedge 0 E E F R - 0 16
R1 Poland (R1) Edmund Migoś 4 2 1 1 F 0 4 R1
R2 Poland (R2) Jerzy Szczakiel 0 0 R2
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

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