1998 Speedway World Team Cup

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 1998 Speedway World Team Cup was the 39th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.[1][2]

The final took place on 11 September at the Vojens Speedway Center in Denmark. The winners were the United States team who claimed their fifth title.[3][4]

Qualification[]

Group B[]


1st 2nd 3rd
 Latvia 35
10. (2,1,3,3,2,2,3,2) - 18
11. (3,3,3,1,3,3,1,e) - 17 		 Norway 29
1.Lars Gunnestad (3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3) - 20
2.Arnt Førland (2,1,2,1,2,e,0,1) - 9 		 Ukraine 27
13.Igor Marko (1,2,2,2,3,2,e,2) - 14
14. (2,1,2,1,2,1,2,2) - 13
4th 5th track reserve
 Slovenia 26
4.Matej Ferjan (1,0,3,1,3,2,3,3) - 16
5. (3,2,f,0,1,1,2,1) - 10 		 Italy 3
7.Simone Terenzani (0,0,1,0,0,1,1,0) - 3
8. (0,0,0,e,0,0,0,0) - 0
16. - ns
17. - ns
  • Latvia and Ukraine to Group A

Group A[]

Draw 1. Norway -> Ukraine


1st 2nd 3rd
 Czech Republic 39
10.Marian Jirout (3,2,2,3,3,1) - 14
11.Adrian Rymel (3,3,1,*,1,2) - 10
12.Antonín Kasper Jr. (3,3,*,3,3,3) - 15 		 Hungary 35
1.Zoltán Adorján (2,2,3,3,3,3) - 16
2.Sándor Tihanyi (3,3,3,1,2,2) - 14
3.Róbert Nagy (1,e,*,2,2,*) - 5 		 Russia 32
7.Roman Povazhny - (1,2,2,2,2,3) - 12
8.Sergej Darkin (2,3,2,2,2,2) - 13
9.Oleg Kurguskin (1,2,*,1,3,*) - 7
4th 5th
 Latvia 8
13. (1,1,0,1,1,f) - 4
14.
15. (2,0,0,1,0,1) - 4 		 Ukraine 2
4.Igor Marko (f,-,-,-,-,-) - 0
5. (0,1,1,0,0,-) - 2
6.
  • Czech Republic and Hungary to Final

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 22
1 United States USA 28 10 18 28
(1) Greg Hancock 12 2 3 1 2 2 2
(2) Billy Hamill 16 3 2 2 3 3 3
(15) Sam Ermolenko 0
2 Sweden Sweden 24 10 15 24
(5) Tony Rickardsson 5 3 2 0 - - -
(6) Jimmy Nilsen 13 2 3 3 0 3 2
(17) Peter Karlsson 6 2 1 3
3 Denmark Denmark 23 8 13 23
(11) Hans Nielsen 10 2 2 1 1 2 2
(12) Brian Karger 4 3 1 0 - - -
(20) Brian Andersen 9 3 3 3
4 Poland Poland 17 4 12 17
(13) Tomasz Gollob 15 1 3 3 3 2 3
(14) Jacek Gollob 0 0 E - - - E
(21) Robert Dados 2 E 2 0
5 Germany Germany 14 6 12 14
(9) Gerd Riss 1 1 - - - - -
(10) Robert Barth 6 0 3 1 0 1 1
(19) Matthias Kröger 7 2 2 3 0 E
6 Czech Republic Czech Republic 14 2 10 14
(3) Antonín Kasper Jr. 9 1 1 3 2 0 2
(4) Marian Jirout 5 0 0 2 1 1 1
(16) Adrian Rymel 0
7 Hungary Hungary 6 2 4 6
(7) Zoltán Adorján 5 1 1 1 0 1 1
(8) Sándor Tihanyi 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
(18) - 0
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 22

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. ^ "FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP/ SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS" (PDF). Motor Sport Top 20. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  2. ^ "1998 WORLD TEAM CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  3. ^ "World Team Cup 1960-1990". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
Retrieved from ""