1965 Speedway World Team Cup

1965 Speedway World Team Cup was the sixth edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.[1][2][3]

The final took place at the Illerstadion in Kempten, West Germany. The World Champion title was won by Poland.[4][5]

Format

	Qualifying round					Semifinals					Final
						Odense, Denmark (details)
						Sweden		45
						Norway		23
	Olching, West Germany (details)					Finland		19			Kempten, West Germany (details)
	Poland		39			Denmark		9			Poland		38
	Czechoslovakia		32								Sweden		33
	West Germany		21			Ufa, Soviet Union (details)					Great Britain**		18
	Austria		4			Poland		37			Soviet Union		7
						Soviet Union		30
	Meissen, East Germany (details)					Czechoslovakia		27
	Soviet Union		45			East Germany		2
	Poland*		25
	East Germany		13
	East Germany II*		11

* Replacement teams not eligible to qualify
** Great Britain seeded to the final

Qualification

Continental Semi-Final 1 1 August Olching Speedwaybahn, Olching Pos. National team Pts. Riders  Poland 39 Zbigniew Podlecki - 11 Jan Mucha - 10 Paweł Waloszek - 10 Joachim Maj - 8  Czechoslovakia 32 Luboš Tomíček Sr. - 10 Antonín Kasper Sr. - 8 Pavel Mares - 7 Jaroslav Volf - 7 Frantisek Ledecky - NS  West Germany 21 Heinrich Sprenger - 6 Manfred Poschenreider - 5 Otto Lantenhammer - 5 Rainer Jüngling - 3 Fred Aberl - 2 4  Austria 4 Kurt Schwingenschlögl - 2 Johann Kühr - 2 Alfred Rinzner - 0 Günther Walla - 0 Continental Semi-Final 2 1 August Meissen Speedway Stadium, Meissen Pos. National team Pts. Riders  Soviet Union 48 Igor Plekhanov - 12 (3,3,3,3) Gennady Kurilenko - 12 (3,3,3,3) Vladimir Sokolov - 12 (3,3,3,3) Yuri Chekranov - 9 Gabdrakhman Kadyrov - NS  Poland* 25 Adolf Slabon - 9 Konstanty Pociejkewicz - 8 Bogdan Jaroszewicz - 5 Piotr Bruzda - 3 Wladislaw Wawszczyk - 0  East Germany 13 Jochen Dinse - 6 Jürgen Hehlert - 4 Hans Jürgen Fritz - 2 Heino Niemann - 1 Peter Liebing - 0 4  East Germany II* 11 Bruno Bülau - 5 Günther Schelenz - 4 Jürgen Rudolph - 1 Peter Hehlert - 1 Jochen Hetmank - NS

Scandinavian Round 14 May Odense Athletics Stadium, Odense Pos. National team Pts. Riders  Sweden 45 Bengt Jansson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Bo Josefsson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Per Olof Söderman - 12 (3,3,3,3) Bjorn Knutson - 9  Norway 23 Henry Harrfeldt - 7 Per Aulie - 6 Sverre Harrfeldt - 6 Nils Paulsen - 4  Finland 19 Timo Laine - 8 Kalevi Lahtinen - 7 Matti Olin - 3 Olavi Turunen - 1 Heikki Kaprali - 0 4  Denmark 9 Erik Kastebo - 5 Svend Nissen - 2 John S. Andersen - 1 Einar Hansen - 1 Continental Final 22 August Stroitel Stadium, Ufa Pos. National team Pts. Riders  Poland 37 Andrzej Wyglenda - 11 (3,2,3,3) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 11 (3,3,3,2) Zbigniew Podlecki - 9 (2,3,3,1) Antoni Woryna - 6 (3,1,0,2) Paweł Waloszek - NS  Soviet Union 30 Igor Plekhanov - 10 (3,2,2,3) Yuri Chekranov - 9 (2,3,2,2) Gennady Kurilenko - 5 (1,1,2,1) Viktor Trofimov - 5 (-,2,1,2) Vladimir Sokolov - 1 (1,-,-,-)  Czechoslovakia 27 Jaroslav Volf - 10 (2,3,2,3) Luboš Tomíček Sr. - 7 (1,2,3,1) Antonín Kasper Sr. - 5 (0,1,1,3) Stanislav Kubíček - 5 (2,1,1,1) Pavel Mares - NS 4  East Germany 2 Jochen Dinse - 1 (0,0,1,0) Günther Schelenz - 1 (1,0,0,0) Hans-Jürgen Fritz - 0 (0,0,0,0) Jürgen Hehlert - 0 (0,0,0,0) Heino Niemann - NS

World final

• 5 September
• Illerstadion, Kempten

Pos.		National team	Pts.	Riders
		Poland	38	Andrzej Wyglenda - 11 (3,3,3,2) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 11 (3,3,3,2) Antoni Woryna - 9 (1,2,3,3) Zbigniew Podlecki - 7 (1,2,2,2) Paweł Waloszek - NS
		Sweden	34	Bjorn Knutson - 11 (3,3,2,3) Ove Fundin - 8 (ef,3,2,3) Bengt Jansson - 8 (1,2,3,2) Göte Nordin - 6 (2,1,2,1) Leif Larsson - NS
		Great Britain	18	Ken McKinlay - 7 (2,1,1,3) Nigel Boocock - 6 (3,2,0,1) Jimmy Gooch - 3 (-,1,1,1) Barry Briggs - 1 (F,1,0,-) Charlie Monk - 1 (1,0,-,-)
4		Soviet Union	7	Gennady Kurilenko - 2 (2,0,0,0) Yuri Chekranov - 2 (2,r,-,-) Vladimir Sokolov - 2 (0,1,1,0) Igor Plekhanov - 1 (0,F,1,0) Viktor Trofimov - 0 (-,-,0,0)

See also

• 1965 Individual Speedway World Championship

References

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