Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship

World Longtrack Championship
Category	Motorcycle Racing
Country	International
Region	Various
Inaugural season	1957

This is the complete list of Individual Long Track World Championship medalists from 1971. Also included are the medalists from 1957 to 1970 when the championship was known as the European Individual Long Track Championship.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Medalists[]

European Long Track Championship[]

(*) Shows position was gained after a run-off.

Year	Venue	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
1957	Solvalla	NOR Basse Hveem	GER Josef Hofmeister	NOR
1958	Mühldorf	GER Josef Hofmeister	FIN	AUT Josef Kamper
1959	Käpylä	GER Josef Hofmeister	FIN	SWE Olle Nygren
1960	Plattling	GER Josef Hofmeister	GER	GER
1961	Oslo	FIN Timo Laine	SWE Ove Fundin	NOR
1962	Mühldorf	SWE Bertil Stridh	GER	FIN Timo Laine
1963	Malmö	SWE Bertil Stridh	DEN Kurt W. Petersen	GER Manfred Poschenreider
1964	Scheeßel	DEN Kurt W. Petersen	FIN	GER Manfred Poschenreider
1965	Seinäjoki	SWE Björn Knutsson	FIN Timo Laine	GER
1966	Mühldorf	GER Manfred Poschenreider	DEN Kurt W. Petersen	NOR Jon Ødegaard
1967	Scheeßel	GER Manfred Poschenreider	ENG Don Godden	NOR Jon Ødegaard
1968	Mühldorf	GER Manfred Poschenreider	ENG Don Godden	DEN Kurt W. Petersen
1969	Oslo	ENG Don Godden	NOR Jon Ødegaard	DEN Kurt W. Petersen
1970	Scheeßel	NOR Jon Ødegaard	ENG Don Godden	GER

World Long Track Championship[]

Year	Venue	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
1971	Oslo	NZL Ivan Mauger	GER Manfred Poschenreider	SWE
1972	Mühldorf	NZL Ivan Mauger	GER Manfred Poschenreider	NOR Jon Ødegaard
1973	Oslo	DEN Ole Olsen	GER Hans Siegl	GER Manfred Poschenreider
1974	Scheeßel	GER Egon Müller	NZL Ivan Mauger	GER Alois Wiesböck
1975	Gornja Radgona	GER Egon Müller	NZL Ivan Mauger	DEN Ole Olsen
1976	Mariánské Lázně	NZL Ivan Mauger	DEN Ole Olsen	GER Egon Müller
1977	Aalborg	SWE Anders Michanek	GER Hans Siegl	DEN Ole Olsen
1978	Mühldorf	GER Egon Müller	GER Alois Wiesböck	ENG Peter Collins(*)
1979	Mariánské Lázně	GER Alois Wiesböck	SWE Anders Michanek	DEN Ole Olsen
1980	Scheeßel	GER Karl Maier	GER Egon Müller	GER Josef Aigner GER Christoph Betzl
1981	Gornja Radgona	ENG Michael Lee	GER Christoph Betzl	SWE Anders Michanek(*)
1982	Korskro	GER Karl Maier	GER Alois Wiesböck	GER Egon Müller
1983	Mariánské Lázně	USA Shawn Moran	CZE Jiří Štancl	GER Karl Maier
1984	Herxheim	DEN Erik Gundersen	GER Egon Müller	GER Karl Maier
1985	Korskro	ENG Simon Wigg	CZE Jiří Štancl	ENG Peter Collins
1986	Pfarrkirchen	DEN Erik Gundersen	ENG Peter Collins(*)	Marcel Gerhard
1987	Mühldorf	GER Karl Maier	ENG Simon Wigg	USA Shawn Moran(*)
1988	Scheeßel	GER Karl Maier	GER Klaus Lausch	ENG Chris Morton
1989	Mariánské Lázně	ENG Simon Wigg	CZE Aleš Dryml Sr.	GER Karl Maier
1990	Herxheim	ENG Simon Wigg	GER Karl Maier(*)	GER
1991	Mariánské Lázně	GER Gerd Riss	CZE Aleš Dryml Sr.(*)	DEN Jan O. Pedersen
1992	Pfarrkirchen	Marcel Gerhard	NZL Mitch Shirra	GER Karl Maier
1993	Mühldorf	ENG Simon Wigg	GER Karl Maier	Marcel Gerhard(*)
1994	Mariánské Lázně	ENG Simon Wigg	GER Andre Pollehn	GER Gerd Riss(*)
1995	Scheeßel	ENG Kelvin Tatum(*)	ENG Simon Wigg	GER
1996	Herxheim	GER Gerd Riss	GER Robert Barth	GER Bernd Diener

Grand Prix Series (since 1997)[]

Year	Venues	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
1997 details	five events	Tommy Dunker	Steve Schofield	Glenn Cunningham
1998 details	five events	Kelvin Tatum	Gerd Riss	Steve Schofield
1999 details	five events	Gerd Riss	Robert Barth	Kelvin Tatum
2000 details	five events	Kelvin Tatum	Robert Barth	Matthias Kröger
2001 details	four events	Gerd Riss	Kelvin Tatum	Robert Barth
2002 details	five events	GER Robert Barth	GER Gerd Riss	ENG Kelvin Tatum
2003 details	six events	Robert Barth	Kelvin Tatum	Gerd Riss
2004 details	five events	Gerd Riss	Kelvin Tatum
2005 details	nine events	Robert Barth	Gerd Riss	Paul Hurry
2006 details	five events	Robert Barth	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Gerd Riss
2007 details	three events	Gerd Riss	v Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2008 details	four events	Gerd Riss	Glen Phillips	Dirk Fabriek
2009 details	five events	Gerd Riss	Stephane Tresarrieu	Dirk Fabriek
2010 details	six events	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Theo Pijper	Richard Speiser
2011 details	six events	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Richard Speiser	Stephan Katt
2012 details	six events	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Martin Smolinski	Josef Franc
2013 details	six events	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Jannick de Jong	Richard Hall
2014 details	five events	Erik Riss	Jannick de Jong	Joonas Kylmäkorpi
2015 details	four events	Jannick de Jong	Erik Riss	Dimitri Bergé
2016 details ^[9]	five events	Erik Riss	Jannick de Jong	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2017 details	five events	Mathieu Trésarrieu	Michael Hartel	Josef Franc
2018 details	five events	Martin Smolinski	Dimitri Bergé	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2019 details	five events	Dimitri Bergé	Martin Smolinski	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2020 details	two events	Lukas Fienhage	Kenneth Kruse Hansen	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2021 details	four events	Romano Hummel	Martin Smolinski	Theo Pijper

Riders[]

There have been 369 competitors from 22 countries.

Records[]

Most Appearances in Final: Gerd Riss 25.
Most Overall Points: Theo Pijper 1340.
Most One Day Finals: Egon Müller 20.
Most One Day Points: Karl Maier 329.
Most Grand-Prix Series Appearances: Theo Pijper 23.
Most Grand-Prix Appearances: Theo Pijper 98.
Most Grand-Prix Points: Theo Pijper 1340.
Most Grand-Prix Podiums Mathieu Trésarrieu 34.
Most Grand-Prix Wins Gerd Riss & Joonas Kylmäkorpi 16

References[]

^ "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB.
^ "SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org.
^ "WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes" (PDF). Speedway Plus.com.
^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.
^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 29–30. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 102. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. p. 290. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
^ Montague, Trevor (2004). The A-Z of Sport. Little, Brown. pp. 511–512. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
^ "World Longtrack Championship 2016 Overall Standings - Grasstrack GB". grasstrackgb.co.uk.

Books

Loader, Tony (1991). Loader's International Speedway Annual 1991. Tony Loader. pp. 31–33. ISSN 1036-4404.

External links[]

GrasstrackGB

[1] "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB.

[2] "SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org.

[3] "WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes" (PDF). Speedway Plus.com.

[4] Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.

[5] Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 29–30. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.

[6] Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 102. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.

[7] Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. p. 290. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.

[8] Montague, Trevor (2004). The A-Z of Sport. Little, Brown. pp. 511–512. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.

[details-9] "World Longtrack Championship 2016 Overall Standings - Grasstrack GB". grasstrackgb.co.uk.

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