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1987 Individual Speedway World Championship

The 1987 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 42nd edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.[1][2][3][4]

The 1987 Speedway World Final programme.

It was contested for the one and only time over two days in the Netherlands. The scores from both meetings were combined to produce the eventual winner.[5]

With the chances of a surprise winner reduced due to two races being held it was the favourite Hans Nielsen that duly obliged with his second World crown. Nielsen had trailed after day one by 1 point to great rival Erik Gundersen and the American Sam Ermolenko. However in trademark style Nielsen produced a 15 point maximum on day two to wrap up the World Title, with Gundersen claiming silver and Ermolenko bronze.[6][7]

British Qualification Edit

British Final Edit

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 22
    (11) Kelvin Tatum 13 3 3 2 3 2 13 1
    (2) Neil Evitts 11 3 1 2 2 3 11 2
    (14) Simon Wigg 10 3 2 3 1 1 10 3 3
4   (13) Marvyn Cox 10 2 2 2 1 3 10 4 2
5   (12) Jeremy Doncaster 9 0 3 3 3 0 9 5
6   (5) Paul Thorp 9 F 3 X 3 3 9 6
7   (15) Andrew Silver 9 1 2 1 2 3 9 7
8   (6) Simon Cross 8 3 3 1 F 1 8 8
9   (3) Chris Morton 8 1 1 2 2 2 8 9
10   (4) John Davis 7 0 1 3 3 0 7 10
11   (1) Andy Grahame 6 2 0 3 0 1 6 11
12   (10) Gary Havelock 6 2 0 1 1 2 6 12
13   (8) Andy Smith 5 2 2 0 1 F 5 13
14   (7) Peter Carr 4 1 0 0 2 1 4 14
15   (9) Alun Rossiter 4 1 1 1 1 0 4 15
16   (16) Neil Collins 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 16
R1   (R1) Steve Collins 0 0 R1
R2   (R2) Les Collins 0 0 R2
TR   (TR) David Clarke 0 0 0 TR
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 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

Swedish Qualification Edit

Date Venue Winner Runner-up 3rd place
Semi-Finals
3 May   Nassjo   Jan Andersson   Per Jonsson   Mikael Blixt
3 May   Lindesberg   Tommy Nillson   Erik Stenlund   Niklas Karlsson

Swedish Final Edit

Pos. Rider Scores Total
1   Jan Andersson 15+14+14 43
2   Per Jonsson 14+15+13 42
3   Roland Danno 9+11+11 31
4   Tommy Nilsson 8+12+10 30
5   Patrik Karlsson 10+8+11 29
6   Conny Ivarsson 9+9+9 27
7   Christer Rohlen 7+10+8 25
8   Niklas Karlsson 8+3+10 21
9   Tony Olsson 6+9+5 20
10   Dennis Löfqvist 7+6+3 16
11   Jan Staan 3+5+5 13
12   Bo Arhhen 2+8+2 12
13   Claes Ivarsson 3+1+7 11
14   Kenneth Nystrom 3+6+0 9
15   Erik Stenlund 6+2+ns 8
16   Lillebror Johansson 3+1+3 7
17   Mikael Blixt 6+1+ns 7
18   Pierre Brannefors ns+0+7 7
19   Mikael Rittewall ns+ns+1 1
16   Jorgen Johansson ns+ns+0 0

Intercontinental Round Edit

Date Venue Winner Runner-up 3rd place
Australian Final
24 January   Mildura   Steve Regeling   Steve Baker   Glyn Taylor
New Zealand Final
21 February   Auckland   David Bargh   Mitch Shirra   Larry Ross
Danish Final
17 May   Slangerup   Hans Nielsen   Erik Gundersen   John Jørgensen
American Final
13 June   Long Beach   Sam Ermolenko   Kelly Moran   John Cook
Commonwealth Final
14 June   Belle Vue   Kelvin Tatum   Simon Cross   Marvyn Cox
Finnish Final
28 June   Lahti   Ari Koponen   Vesa Ylinen   Roy Malminhelmo
Overseas Final
5 July   Bradford   Mitch Shirra   Jeremy Doncaster   Kelly Moran
Nordic Final
14 July   Norrköping   Erik Gundersen   Hans Nielsen   Peter Ravn
Intercontinental Final
27 July   Vojens   Erik Gundersen   Jimmy Nilsen   Hans Nielsen

Australian Final Edit

  • January 24, 1987
  •   Mildura
  • First 3 to Commonwealth Final
Pos. Rider Heat Scores Total
1   Steve Regeling 14
2   Steve Baker 12
3   Glyn Taylor 10
4   Ashley Norrton 10
5   Craig Hodgson 10
6   Mick Poole 9
7   David Jackson 9
8   Tony Butler 8
9   Tony Rose 8
10   Stephen Davies 7
11   Dave Cheshire 6
12   Mark Fiora 4
13   Andy Barret 4
14   Nigel Adlerton 3
15   Chris Watson 2
16   Nigel Tramelling 2

New Zealand Final Edit

  • February 21, 1987
  •   NZL Auckland
  • Marked in green to Commonwealth Final
Pos. Rider Total
1   David Bargh 14
2   Mitch Shirra 13
3   Larry Ross 12
4   Alan Mason 10
5   Mike Fullerton 10
6   Richard Price 9
7   Mark Long 8
8   Chris Marin 8
9   Steve Rose 8
10   John Roberts 6
11   Mark Lyndon 6
12   Chris Monk 5
13   Les Chappell 4
14   Don Hopewell 3
15   Dave Cotton 2

Danish Final Edit

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
    (7) Hans Nielsen 15 3 3 3 3 3 15 1
    (15) Erik Gundersen 13 3 1 3 3 3 13 2
    (13) John Jørgensen 11 1 3 2 2 3 11 3
4   (5) Jan Jacobsen 11 2 2 2 3 2 11 4
5   (14) Tommy Knudsen 10 2 3 3 2 - 10 5
6   (4) Peter Ravn 10 2 3 1 1 3 10 6
7   (11) Jens Rasmussen 9 3 2 2 1 1 9 7
8   (2) Per Sorensen 7 1 1 0 3 2 7 8
9   (9) Peter Glanz 7 2 1 2 2 0 7 9
10   (10) Fleming Rasmussen 6 1 2 0 1 2 6 10
11   (12) John Eskilden 5 0 2 1 1 1 5 11
12   (1) Kurt Hansen 4 3 0 0 0 1 4 12
13   (16) Aksel Jepsen 4 0 0 1 2 1 4 13
14   (6) Frank Andersen 3 0 0 3 0 - 3 14
15   (8) Ole Hansen 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 15
16   (3) Sam Nikolajsen 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 16
R1   (R1) Lars Munkedal 0 0 0 R1
R2   (R2) Finn Rune Jensen 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 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

American Final Edit

Pos. Rider Heat Scores Total
1   Sam Ermolenko 3,4,4,4,4 19
2   Kelly Moran 4,4,3,4,3 18
3   John Cook 4,2,4,3,2 15+4
4   Robert Pfetzing 4,4,4,2,2 15+3
5   Mike Faria 2,4,3,4,2 15+2
6   Lance King 4,2,3,2,4 15+1
7   Rick Miller 3,3,2,4,3 15+0
8   Shawn Moran 3,0,4,3,4 14
9   Bobby Schwartz 0,4,2,3,3 12
10   Gary Hicks 2,1,1,3,4 11
11   Steve Lucero 1,3,3,2,1 10
12   John Sandona 1,3,2,0,3 8
13   Jim Sisemore 2,0,1,2,3 8
14   Brad Oxley 3,1,1,1,1 7
15   Eddie Ingels 2,1,2,0,0 5
16   Mark Dwyer 1,2,0,1,1 5
17   Tuff McBridge 1,2,1,1,F 5
18   John Kehoe 0,1,0,0,1 2
19   Gary Ford 0,0,0,1,0 1
20   Bart Bast 0,0,0,0,0 0

Commonwealth Final Edit

  • June 14, 1987
  •   GBR Belle Vue
  • First 10 to the Overseas 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
    (4) Kelvin Tatum 14 3 2 3 3 3 14 1
    (12) Simon Cross 13 3 3 3 3 1 13 2
    (14) Marvyn Cox 10 3 3 3 1 0 10 3
4   (10) Neil Evitts 10 2 1 1 3 3 10 4
5   (3) Chris Morton 10 1 3 2 2 2 10 5
6   (11) David Bargh 10 1 2 2 3 2 10 6
7   (13) Mitch Shirra 10 1 2 2 2 3 10 7
8   (16) Steve Regeling 8 2 1 1 1 3 8 8
9   (2) Andrew Silver 8 2 2 2 E 2 8 9
10   (5) Paul Thorp 7 3 3 F 0 1 7 10
11   (7) Jeremy Doncaster 6 2 1 0 2 1 6 11 3
12   (6) Simon Wigg 6 1 0 3 2 0 6 12 2
13   (9) Steve Baker 3 0 1 1 1 0 3 13
14   (15) Glyn Taylor 3 X 0 1 0 2 3 14
15   (1) Alan Mason 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 15
16   (8) Ashley Norton 1 E 0 1 0 0 1 16
R1   (R1) Larry Ross 0 0 R1
R2   (R2) Glenn Hornby 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 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

Finnish Final Edit

  • August 26, 1987
  •   Lahti
  • First to Nordic Final
Pos. Rider Heat Scores Total
1   Ari Koponen 15
2   Vesa Ylinen 14
3   Roy Malminhelmo 13
4   Ari Ala Riihimaki 11
5   Olli Turkia 11
6   Aare Soivuori 7
7   Juha Moksunen 6
8   Jorma frantila 6
9   Janne Moksunen 5
10   Maarku Haapala 5
11   Mikael Back 5
12   Esa Einola 5
13   Petri Kokko 3
14   Jari Kortelainen 3
15   Jari Moisio 3
16   Janne Koivula 0

Overseas Final Edit

  • July 5, 1987
  •   GBR Bradford
  • First 10 to the Intercontinental Final plus 1 reserve
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
    (7) Mitch Shirra 12 3 0 3 3 3 12 1
    (11) Jeremy Doncaster 11 3 2 2 3 1 11 2
    (14) Kelly Moran 10 3 2 2 1 2 10 3 3
4   (12) Sam Ermolenko 10 0 2 3 2 3 10 4 2
5   (6) Steve Regeling 9 2 0 3 3 1 9 5
6   (10) Simon Cross 9 2 3 2 2 0 9 6
7   (1) Neil Evitts 8 3 1 1 0 3 8 7
8   (8) Marvyn Cox 8 0 3 3 1 1 8 8
9   (13) John Cook 8 1 2 1 2 2 8 9
10   (3) Chris Morton 7 2 1 1 3 X 7 10 3
11   (15) Kelvin Tatum 7 0 3 0 2 2 7 11 2
12   (4) David Bargh 6 1 1 X 1 3 6 12
13   (5) Robert Pfetzing 5 1 3 1 0 0 5 13
14   (16) Mike Faria 5 2 0 0 1 2 5 14
15   (2) Paul Thorp 3 0 1 2 0 E 3 15
16   (9) Andrew Silver 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 16
R1   (R1) Simon Wigg 0 0 R1
R2   (R2) Rick Miller 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 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

Nordic Final Edit

  • June 14, 1987
  •   SWE Norrköping
  • First 7 to the Intercontinental Final plus 1 reserve
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
    (2) Erik Gundersen 14 3 2 3 3 3 14 1
    (14) Hans Nielsen 12 3 3 3 1 2 12 2 3
    (12) Peter Ravn 12 3 2 2 2 3 12 3 2
4   (4) Per Jonsson 11 1 3 3 1 3 11 4
5   (9) Jan O. Pedersen 11 2 3 2 2 2 11 5
6   (6) Jimmy Nilsen 10 2 1 3 3 1 10 6
7   (1) Kai Niemi 9 2 1 0 3 3 9 7 3
8   (8) John Jørgensen 9 3 1 1 2 2 9 8 2
9   (16) Jan Andersson 8 2 0 2 3 1 8 9
10   (11) Tommy Knudsen 7 1 3 1 1 1 7 10
11   (5) Roland Danno 6 1 2 1 2 0 6 11
12   (3) Jan Jacobsen 4 E 1 0 1 2 4 12
13   (7) Tommy Nilsson 3 F 2 1 0 0 3 13
14   (15) Olli Tyrväinen 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 14
15   (13) Arne Svendsen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
16   (10) Einar Kyllingstad 0 F 0 X F 0 0 16
R1   (R1) Vesa Ylinen 2 2 2 R1
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

Intercontinental Final Edit

  • July 27, 1987
  •   DEN Vojens
  • First 11 to the World Final plus 1 reserve
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) Erik Gundersen 13 3 3 3 1 3 13 1
    (11) Jimmy Nilsen 12 3 2 2 2 3 12 2
    (4) Hans Nielsen 11 0 3 3 3 2 11 3
4   (3) Jan O. Pedersen 10 2 1 3 2 2 10 4
5   (2) Mitch Shirra 9 1 2 0 3 3 9 5
6   (7) Sam Ermolenko 9 1 3 0 3 2 9 6
7   (10) John Cook 9 1 3 1 3 1 9 7
8   (5) Per Jonsson 8 3 1 3 0 1 8 8
9   (12) Simon Cross 8 2 1 2 0 3 8 9
10   (15) Jeremy Doncaster 8 3 0 1 2 2 8 10
11   (13) Chris Morton 7 2 2 2 0 1 7 11
12   (8) Peter Ravn 5 X 2 2 1 0 5 12 3
13   (6) Neil Evitts 5 2 1 1 1 0 5 13 2
14   (14) Kai Niemi 4 1 0 1 2 0 4 14
15   (16) Marvyn Cox 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 15
16   (9) Steve Regeling 0 0 0 X - - 0 16
R1   (R1) Kelvin Tatum 1 1 1 R1
R2   (R2) John Jørgensen 0 E 0 R2
R3   (R3) Kelly Moran 0 0 R3
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

Continental Round Edit

Date Venue Winner Runner-up 3rd place
Preliminary Round
1 May  Pfaffenhofen   Bohumil Brhel   Ryszard Francsyszyn   Vladimir Voronkov
17 May  Krsko   Valentino Furlanetto   Lubomir Jedek   Gianni Famari
17 May  Neustadt Donau   Antal Kocso   Andrzej Huszcza   Laszlo Bodi
17 May  Targovishte   Grzegorz Dzikowski   Josef Sereš   Dariusz Baliński
Quarter-Finals
24 May  Wiener Neustadt   József Petrikovics   Armando Castagna   Toni Pilotto
31 May  Debrecen   Mikhail Starostin   Viktor Kuznetsov   Zoltan Adorjan
31 May  Rovno   Roman Matoušek   Jiří Svoboda   Valery Gordeev
31 May  Slany   Antonín Kasper, Jr.   Gerd Riss   Karl Maier
Semi-Finals
13 June  Leszno   Roman Jankowski   Wojciech Żabiałowicz   Zoltan Adorjan
14 June  Krumbach   Gerd Riss   Armando Castagna   Antonín Kasper, Jr.
Final
26 July  Lonigo   Gerd Riss   Roman Jankowski   Antonín Kasper, Jr.

Nederlands Final Edit

Pos. Rider Scores Total
1   Henk Steman 13+15+1+13,5+13 54,5
2   Rene Elzinga 3,5+8+15+15+15 53
3   Peter Seur 12+11,5+9+11,5+9,5 44,5
4   Geert Cools ns+9+9+13,5+12 43,5
5   Wil Stoes 11+10+ns+7,5+14 42,5
6   Rob Steman 0,5+11,5+14+6+6,5 38,5
7   Robert Jam Munnecom 10+14+13+ns+ns 37
8   Rikus Gorter 8,5+3+11,5+9+5 34
9   Frans Cools 0,5+5,5+5,5+10+11 31
10   Ron Koppe 3,5+7+5,5+11,5+6,5 30,5
11   Frits Koppe 14+13+ns+ns+ns 27
12   Vital Cardeynaels 7+4+11,5+1+ns 23,5
13   Henny Kroeze 15+5,5+ns+ns+ns 20,5
14   Ron Van Dam 2+ns+7+7,5+3,5 20
15   Patrick Pino 5+ns+3,5+3,5+8 20
16   Aage Lucardie ns+1+9+5+2 17
17   Fokke Van Der Walle 8,5+2+2+3,5+3,5 16,5
18   Hylke Dijkema ns++ns+ns+ns+9,5 9,5
19   Willy Heremans 6+ns+3,5+ns+ns 9,5
20   Herman Heremans ns+ns+ns+2+ns 2

German Final Edit

  • September 4, 1987
  •   FRG Pocking
  • Marked in green to Continental Qualification
Pos. Rider Scores Total
1   Tommy Dunker 3,3,3,3,3 15
2   Gerd Riss 3,3,3,2,3 14
3   Karl Maier 2,3,2,3,3 13
4   Carsten Pelzmann 3,2,1,3,1 10
5   Andreas Marynowski 2,2,1,3,2 10
6   Peter Schrock 2,1,3,2,2 10
7   Berndt Traunspurger 1,0,3,2,1 7
8   Tommy Broch 2,E,1,1,3 7
9   Klaus Freundorfer 1,2,2,F,2 7
10   Peter Hehlert 1,3,0,2,0 6
11   Alois Bachuber 0,1,2,1,1 5
12   Andre Pollehn 0,1,1,0,2 4
13   Hans Faltermeier 1,1,2,F,- 4
14   Heinz Huber 3,F,-,-,- 3
15   Hans Kressirer 0,2,0,1,E 3
16   Mario Trupkovic 0,0,0,0,1 1

Italian Final Edit

Pos. Rider Scores Total
1   Valentino Furlanetto 16+14+15+16 61
2   Armando Castagna 14+15+15+14 58
3   Paolo Salvatelli 12+11+13+9 45
4   Armando Dal Chiele 13+8+11+10 42
5   Ottaviano Righetto 11+12+10+9 42
6   Giuseppe Scalzolaro 9+10+9+5 33
7   Giorgio Zaramello ns+10+8+12 30
8   Gianni Famari ns+9+10+10 29
9   Giovanni Cragnolini 9+5+0+7 21
10   Fabrizio Vesperini 8+5+5+4 21
11   Gaetano Bressan ns+7+8+5 20
12   Davide Guarise 4+6+ns+8 18
13   Amerigo Milanese 5+4+1+4 14
14   Mario Andriolo 6+3+3+0 12
15   Daniele Doro 6+0+4+1 11
16   Fabrizio Maggio ns+2+5+3 10
17   Giuseppe Marzotto ns+ns+4+ns 4
18   Domenico Solda 3+ns+ns+ns 3

Hungarian Final Edit

  • Marked in green to Continental Qualification
Pos. Rider Scores Total
1   Zoltan Adorjan 30
2   József Petrikovics 28
3