1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship

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The 1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the third FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship.[1][2][3] The final took place in Borås, Sweden. The championship was won by England (24 points) who beat New Zealand after Run-Off (24 points also) and Sweden B (22 points) who beat Sweden A after a run-off.[4]

Semifinal 1[]

Pos. Team Rider Points
1st  New Zealand (27 pts) Ivan Mauger 15
Ronnie Moore 12
2nd  England (25 pts) Ray Wilson 14
Terry Betts 11
3rd  Sweden (22 pts) Anders Michanek 11
Bengt Jansson 11
4   (15 pts) Jim McMillan 9
George Hunter 6
5  Australia (14 pts) Geoff Curtis 7
Garry Middleton 7
6  Denmark (9 pts) Ole Olsen 7
2
7  Norway (9 pts) Øyvind S. Berg 6
Reidar Eide 3

Semifinal 2[]

Pos. Team Rider Points
1st  Poland (? pts) Zbigniew Marcinkowski ?
?
2nd  Hungary (? pts) ? ?
? ?
3rd  Czechoslovakia (21 pts) Petr Ondrasik 11
Jan Verner 10
4 ? (? pts) ? ?
? ?
5 ? (? pts) ? ?
? ?
6 ? (? pts) ? ?
? ?
7 ? (? pts) ? ?
? ?

World final[]

Placing Pair / Rider Name Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
1  England 24 6 14 24
(11) Ray Wilson 15+3 3 1 3 3 2 3
(12) Terry Betts 9 2 0 1 1 3 2*
2  New Zealand 24 8 16 24
(13) Ivan Mauger 14+F 2 2 3 1 3 3
(14) Ronnie Moore 10 1 3 2 2 0 2
3  Sweden B 22 8 16 22
(7) Bernt Persson 13+3 2 3 3 3 2 0
(8) Hasse Holmqvist 9 1 2 2 0 3 1
4  Sweden A 22 8 14 22
(5) Anders Michanek 15+2 3 3 3 2 1 3
(6) Bengt Jansson 7 0 2 1 0 2 2
5  Poland 15 6 10 15
(1) Zbigniew Marcinkowski 13 3 3 2 2 3 F
(2) 2 0 0 0 X 2 X
6  Czechoslovakia 12 4 10 12
(3) Jan Holub I 5 1 0 1 3 0 0
(4) Jiri Stancl 7 2 1 0 2 1 1
7  Hungary 6 2 4 6
(9) 6 1 1 1 1 1 1
(10) 0 0 0 0 0 0 X
Placing Pair / Rider Name Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 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

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 99. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
  2. ^ "World Pairs Championship 1968-1993". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  3. ^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
  4. ^ "Zapomniane turnieje: Mistrzostwa Świata Par (część 1)" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-07-09.


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