1970 Speedway World Team Cup

1970 Speedway World Team Cup

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The 1970 Speedway World Team Cup was the 11th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.^[1][2][3]

The final took place at Wembley Stadium in London. The title was won by Sweden for the sixth time.^[4][5][6]

Qualification

British Round

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

Scandinavian Round

• June 14
•   Västervik
• Att: 1,450

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Sweden - 39 Ove Fundin - 12 Anders Michanek - 12 Bengt Jansson - 10 Per Olof Söderman - 4 Kjell Haage - 1	Norway - 32 Odd Fossengen - 9 Øyvind S. Berg - 8 Reidar Eide - 8 Edgar Stangeland - 7 Dag Lovaas - ns	Denmark - 25 Ole Olsen - 9 Neils Weiss - 6 Kurt Bøgh - 5 Bent Nørregaard-Jensen - 5 Jörn Mogensen - ns	Finland - 0 Erkki Hannula - 0 Reima Lohkovuori - 0 Jouko Naskali - 0 Matti Olin - 0 Markku Tarkkanen - 0

* Sweden to Final

Continental Quarterfinal

• June 21
•   Crikvenica

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Czechoslovakia - 48 Miloslav Verner - 12 Zdeněk Majstr - 12 Jiří Štancl - 12 Václav Verner - 12 Jan Klokocka - ns	Yugoslavia - 28 Drago Regvart Drago Perko Ivan Molan Drasko Orsic Jose Visocnik	Bulgaria - 20 Alexander Kostov Peter Petkov Petr Iliev Georgi Macev	Italy - 4 Gianni Pizzo Giovanni Pizzo Annibale Pretto Gilberto Roncolato

* Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia to Continental Semifinal

Continental Quarterfinal

• June 21
•   Ruhpolding

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
East Germany - 44 Hans-Jürgen Fritz - 12 Jürgen Hehlert - 11 Dieter Tetzlaff - 11 Peter Liebing - 7 Gerhard Uhlenbrock - 3	Hungary - 26 Pal Perenyi - 8 Barnabas Gyepes - 7 Sandor Csatho - 6 Ferenc Radacsi - 5	West Germany - 18 Rudolf Kastl - 6 Christoph Betzl - 6 Josef Angermüller - 6 Alois Wiesböck - 0 Dieter Dauderer - 0	Austria - 8 Günther Walla - 3 Josef Haider - 3 Alfred Rinzner - 1 Helmut Schippl - 1

* East Germany and Hungary to Continental Semifinal

Tournament

Continental Semifinal

• July 5
•   Gustrow
• Att: 12,000

Draw 1.   →   B

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
East Germany - 45 Hans-Jürgen Fritz - 12 Jürgen Hehlert - 12 Dieter Tetzlaff - 12 Peter Liebing - 7 Gerhard Uhlenbrock - 2	Czechoslovakia - 27 Jiří Štancl - 8 Zdeněk Majstr - 7 Václav Verner - 7 Jan Klokocka - 5 Jaroslav Volf - ns	East Germany B - 16 Jochen Dinse - 6 Kurt Martens - 4 Klaus Volker - 4 Horst Krüger - 2 Wilfried Schneider - ns	Hungary - 8 Pal Perenyi - 3 Sandor Csatho - 2 Barnabas Gyepes - 2 Ferenc Radacsi - 1

* East Germany and Czechoslovakia to Continental Final

Continental Final

• July 26
•   Slaný
• Att: 7,000

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	Czechoslovakia	32	1	4	4	6	8	11	12	15	17	19	21	23	26	28	29	32		32	32	32	32
	(5) Václav Verner	9	1					3					2					3	9
	(6) Zdeněk Majstr	8		3			2							2			1		8
	(7) Jiří Štancl	7				2			1			2				2			7
	(8) Jan Holub I	8			0					3	2				3				8
	(18) Miloslav Verner	0																	0
2	Poland	29	0	2	4	7	7	7	10	11	14	15	18	21	23	26	27	29		29	29	29	29
	(1) Paweł Waloszek	9				3				1				3				2	9
	(2) Andrzej Wyglenda	9			2				3				3				1		9
	(3) Jan Mucha	5		2				0				1			2				5
	(4) Zygfryd Friedek	6	0				0				3					3			6
	(17) Henryk Glücklich	0																	0
3	Soviet Union	18	3	4	4	7	8	11	11	12	15	16	16	16	17	18	18	18		18	18	18	18
	(9) Valeri Klementiev	2			0		1					1						0	2
	(10) Vladimir Gordeev	9				3		3			3						0		9
	(11) Gennady Kurilenko	3		1						1			0			1			3
	(12) Yury Dubinin	4	3						0					0	1				4
	(19) Vladimir Kononovich	0																	0
4	East Germany	16	0	2	3	3	5	5	7	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	13	16		16	16	16	16
	(13) Hans Jürgen Fritz	8		2					2		1							3	8
	(14) Jürgen Hehlert	5	0							2		1					2		5
	(15) Dieter Tetzlaff	1			1			0						0		0			1
	(16) Peter Liebing	2				0	2						0		0				2
	(20) Gerhard Uhlenbrock	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

* Czechoslovakia and Poland to Final

World Final

• September 19
•   London, Wembley Stadium
• Att: 35,000

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Sweden - 42 13.Bengt Jansson (3,3,2,3) - 11 14.Ove Fundin (2,3,3,3) - 11 15.Anders Michanek (3,2,3,2) - 10 16.Sören Sjösten (2,3,2,3) - 10 20.Bernt Persson - ns	Great Britain - 31 1.Ivan Mauger (3,3,2,1) - 9 2.Barry Briggs (3,2,3,3) - 11 3.Nigel Boocock (1,-,1,-) - 2 4.Eric Boocock (2,2,1,-) - 5 17.Ray Wilson (-,-,2,-,2/f) - 4	Poland - 20 5.Antoni Woryna (1,0,3,1) - 5 6.Jan Mucha (1,1,2,2) - 6 7.Paweł Waloszek (1,1,0,-) - 2 8.Edmund Migoś (2,1,t,1) - 4 18.Henryk Glücklich (-,1,-,2) - 3	Czechoslovakia - 3 9.Zdeněk Majstr (0,0,0,-) - 0 10.Václav Verner (0,1,1,1) - 3 11.Miloslav Verner (0,f,-,0) - 0 12.Jiří Štancl (0,0,0,0) - 0 19.Jan Holub I - (-,-,0,0) - 0

See also

• 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship
• 1970 Speedway World Pairs Championship

References

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3. Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 98. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
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