1970 Individual Speedway World Championship

The 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 25th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Ivan Mauger became the first rider to win the title in three consecutive years, his five ride 15 point maximum took him to third in the all-time list behind Ove Fundin and Barry Briggs. The Poles Paweł Waloszek and Antoni Woryna took silver and bronze respectively in their home nation at the Olympic Stadium.[7]

Format changes

The format of the Championship changed again for the 1970 event. This time the Polish riders were allowed six places in the World Final to be held in Poland. All other nations had to go through the European Final route to provide the remaining 10 riders for the World Final.

First round

Qualification results.[8][9]

Swedish qualifying

  • Top 8 in each heat to Swedish semi-finals

British/Commonwealth qualifying

  • Top 32 to British semi-finals
Date Venue Winner 2nd 3rd
25 April Brandon Stadium, Coventry Nigel Boocock Bruce Cribb Peter Vandenberg
25 April King's Lynn Stadium, King's Lynn Ronnie Moore Wayne Briggs Terry Betts
25 April Hyde Road, Manchester Chris Pusey Tommy Roper Cyril Maidment
27 April Brough Park, Newcastle Barry Briggs Jim Airey Rick Timmo
27 April County Ground Stadium, Exeter Ivan Mauger Bob Kilby Martin Ashby
28 April West Ham Stadium, London Ivan Mauger Bob Kilby Charlie Monk
28 April Leicester Stadium, Leicester Ray Wilson John Boulger Graham Plant
29 April Wimborne Road, Poole Trevor Hedge Pete Smith Gordon Guasco
30 April Wimbledon Stadium, London Eric Boocock Ronnie Moore Trevor Hedge
30 April Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield Jim Airey Les Sharpe Nigel Boocock
30 April Oxford Stadium, Oxford Jim McMillan John Boulger Tony Clarke
1 May Monmore Green, Wolverhampton Nigel Boocock Martin Ashby Norman Hunter
1 May Hackney Wick Stadium, London Barry Briggs Ronnie Moore Jimmy Gooch
1 May Hampden Park, Glasgow Charlie Monk Colin McKee Jim McMillan
1 May Somerton Park, Newport Bill Andrew Norman Strachan Jim Airey
2 May Abbey Stadium, Swindon Barry Briggs Bob Kilby Ray Wilson
2 May The Shay, Halifax Arnold Haley Les Sharpe Eric Boocock
2 May Dudley Wood Stadium, Dudley Colin Pratt Bob Andrews Jack Biggs
13 May Brandon Stadium, Coventry Nigel Boocock Ken McKinlay Rick France

Second round

Norwegian qualifying

Pos. Rider Points
1 Reidar Eide 15
2 Oyvind S. Berg 14
3 Edgar Stangeland 12
4 Per Aulie 12
5 Dag Lövaas 11
6 Einar Egedius 8
7 Nils Otto Haraldsen 7
8 Jon Hovind 7
9 Hans Olav Schia 6
10 Kjell Ttomas Skjäveland 5

Finnish qualifying (top 7)

Pos. Rider Points Total
1 Kalevi Lahtinen 8+8 16
2 Matti Olin 6+6 12
3 Timo Laine 4+1 5
4 Jorma Taipale 0+4 4
5 Olavi Turunen 1+3 4
6 Reima Lohkovuori 2+2 4
7 Jouko Naskali 3+0 3

Swedish semi-finals

Pos. Rider Points
1 Sören Sjösten 14
2 Anders Michanek 14
3 Olle Nygren 14
4 Bengt Larsson 12
5 Per-Olof Söderman 10
6 Käll Haage 10
7 Lars Jansson 10
8 Leif Enecrona 9
9 Conny Samuelsson 9
10 Sven-Inge Svensson 5
11 Karl-Erik Claesson 5
12 Rolf Johansson 4
13 Sigvard Johansson 4
14 Hans Johansson 3
15 Åke Andersson 1
16 Bo Magnusson 0
17 Egon Stengarn (res) 0
Pos. Rider Points
1 Ove Fundin 14
2 Göte Nordin 14
3 Bengt Brannefors 13
4 Bengt Jansson 12
5 Bo Josefsson 10
6 Therje Henriksson 9
7 Bernt Persson 9
8 Jan Simensen 9
9 Bengt Svensson 6
10 Christer Löfqvist 6
11 Tommy Bergqvist 5
12 Runo Wedin 5
13 Sven Sigurd 3
14 Tommy Johansson 3
15 Per-Åke Gerhardsson (res) 2
16 Lennart Michanek 1
17 Bengt Andersson 1

Continental qualifying

  • Top 32 to Continental semi-finals
Date Venue Winner 2nd 3rd
9 May East Germany Meissen Speedway Stadium, Meissen Czechoslovakia Jan Holub I Soviet Union Valery Gordeev East Germany Peter Liebing
10 May Hungary Borsod Volán Stadion, Miskolc Czechoslovakia Václav Verner Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Volf Soviet Union Viktor Trofimov
10 May Austria Liebenauer Stadium, Graz Soviet Union Vladimir Gordeev Czechoslovakia Zdenek Majstr East Germany Jochen Dinse
10 May Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Igralište na Kajzerici, Zagreb Czechoslovakia Pavel Mares Soviet Union Boris Cehanovich East Germany Jürgen Hehlert

British/Commonwealth semi-finals

Pos. Rider Points
1 New Zealand Ivan Mauger 15
2 New Zealand Ronnie Moore 14
3 Wales Howard Cole 12
4 England Nigel Boocock 10
5 England Trevor Hedge 10
6 England Terry Betts 10
7 Australia Jim Airey 9
8 England Arnie Haley 9
9 England Bob Kilby 8
10 England Reg Luckhurst 5
11 Scotland George Hunter 4
12 New Zealand Bill Andrew (res) 4
13 New Zealand Wayne Briggs 3
14 England Cyril Maidment 2
15 England John Dews 2
16 New Zealand Rick Timmo 2
17 Australia Jack Biggs 1
18 Australia Gordon Guasco 2
Pos. Rider Points
1 New Zealand Barry Briggs 13
2 Scotland Jim McMillan 11
3 England Ray Wilson 11
4 England Roy Trigg 10
5 Australia Charlie Monk 10
6 England Chris Pusey 10
7 Australia John Boulger 9
8 England Martin Ashby 9
9 England Bob Andrews 8
10 England Tommy Roper 8
11 Australia Les Sharpe 7
12 Scotland Ken McKinlay 4
13 England Eric Boocock 3
14 England Tony Clarke 3
15 England Colin MCKee 2
16 England Colin Pratt 2

Third round

Continental semi-finals

Pos. Rider Points
1 Soviet Union Valerij Klementiev 15
2 Soviet Union Vladimir Smirnov 11
3 Soviet Union Yury Dubinin 10
4 Soviet Union Viktor Trofimov 10
5 Czechoslovakia Jiří Štancl 10
6 East Germany Hans Jürgen Fritz 9
7 Soviet Union Nikołaj Aksenov 9
8 Soviet Union Grigory Khlinovsky 9
9 Czechoslovakia Antonín Šváb Sr. 8
10 Czechoslovakia Václav Verner 8
11 Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Volf 5
12 Soviet Union Viktor Pavlov 5
13 Czechoslovakia Jan Holub I 5
14 East Germany Hans Martens 2
15 East Germany Peter Liebing 1
16 Hungary Pal Perenyi 0
Pos. Rider Points
1 Soviet Union Gennadij Kurilenko 14
2 Soviet Union Valerij Gordeev 12
3 Soviet Union Vladimir Kononovich 11
4 Soviet Union Viktor Kalmykov 11
5 Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Majstr 10
6 East Germany Jürgen Hehlert 10
7 East Germany Dieter Tetzlaff 10
8 Soviet Union Boris Cehanovich 9
9 Soviet Union Gabdrakhman Kadyrov 7
10 East Germany Gerhard Uhlenbrock 6
11 Austria Josef Bössner 5
12 East Germany Jochen Dinse 4
13 Czechoslovakia Miloslav Verner 4
14 Soviet Union Jurij Lambotskij 1
15 Czechoslovakia Pavel Mareš dns
16 Czechoslovakia Frantisek Ledecky dns

British/Commonwealth 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
1 New Zealand (13) Ivan Mauger 14 2 3 3 3 3 14 1
2 New Zealand (4) Ronnie Moore 13 3 3 2 2 3 13 2
3 New Zealand (3) Roy Trigg 12+3 1 3 3 3 2 12 3
4 England (2) Arnold Haley 12+2 2 3 3 2 2 12 4
5 New Zealand (6) Barry Briggs 10 3 0 3 3 1 10 5
6 England (16) Trevor Hedge 9 3 1 2 2 1 9 6
7 Australia (7) Jim Airey 8 0 1 1 3 3 8 7
8 Australia (14) John Boulger 8 1 2 1 2 2 8 8
9 England (11) Nigel Boocock 7 3 2 0 1 1 7 9
10 England (12) Chris Pusey 6 2 2 2 0 0 6 10
11 Australia (1) Charlie Monk 5 0 2 1 1 1 5 11
12 England (8) Martin Ashby 5 1 0 2 0 2 5 12
13 England (10) Ray Wilson 5 0 1 0 1 3 5 13
14 Wales (5) Howard Cole 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 14
15 England (9) Terry Betts 2 1 1 0 0 X 2 15
16 Scotland (15) Jim McMillan 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 16
England (17) Bob Kilby 0 0
England (18) Tommy Roper 0 0
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

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

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 Sweden (7) Göte Nordin 15 3 3 3 3 3 15 1
2 Sweden (2) Sören Sjösten 12 3 3 3 1 2 12 2
3 Sweden (12) Anders Michanek 11 3 1 2 2 3 11 3
4 Sweden (13) Bengt Larsson 10 1 3 2 3 1 10 4
5 Norway (3) Reidar Eide 10 2 2 3 1 2 10 5
6 Sweden (5) Ove Fundin 9 2 E 1 3 3 9 6
7 Denmark (16) Ole Olsen 9 3 T 3 2 1 9 7
8 Sweden (11) Bengt Jansson 9 2 1 2 2 2 9 8
9 Norway (8) Øyvind Berg 8 1 2 2 0 3 8 9
10 Norway (4) Odd Fossengen 7 1 3 1 1 1 7 10
11 Sweden (6) Bengt Brannefors 6 0 2 1 3 0 6 11
12 Denmark (15) Bent Nørregaard-Jensen 6 2 0 0 2 2 6 12
13 Denmark (1) Niels Weis Sorensen 3 F 2 0 1 0 3 13
14 Norway (9) Dag Lovaas 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 14
15 Sweden (14) Olle Nygren 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 15
16 Finland (10) Matti Olin 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 16
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

Fourth round

British Nordic 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
1 Sweden (2) Sören Sjösten 14 3 3 2 3 3 14 1
2 Denmark (13) Ole Olsen 13 2 3 3 2 3 13 2
3 New Zealand (14) Barry Briggs 12 3 2 1 3 3 12 3
4 New Zealand (11) Ronnie Moore 11 3 3 3 0 2 11 4
5 New Zealand (3) Ivan Mauger 10 0 2 3 3 2 10 5
6 Australia (5) Jim Airey 10 3 1 3 2 1 10 6
7 Sweden (1) Bengt Jansson 10 2 2 2 1 3 10 7
8 Sweden (4) Anders Michanek 9 1 3 2 3 0 9 8
9 Sweden (9) Ove Fundin 7 1 0 2 2 2 7 9
10 England (7) Trevor Hedge 6 1 1 1 2 1 6 10
11 Australia (12) John Boulger 4 2 0 1 0 1 4 11
12 England (16) Arnold Haley 4 0 2 1 1 0 4 12
13 Sweden (8) Göte Nordin 4 2 1 0 1 E 4 13
14 Norway (10) Reidar Eide 3 F 1 0 0 2 3 14
15 England (15) Roy Trigg 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 15
16 Sweden (6) Bengt Larsson 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 16
R1 England (R1) Nigel Boocock 0 0 R1
R2 Norway (R2) Øyvind Berg 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

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 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
1 East Germany (9) Hans Jürgen Fritz 10 2 3 3 2 10 1
2 Soviet Union (10) Valeri Klementiev 9 3 2 1 3 9 2
3 Czechoslovakia (7) Zdenek Majstr 8 2 3 3 0 8 3
4 Soviet Union (15) Yury Dubinin 8 3 0 2 3 8 4
5 Soviet Union (1) Gennady Kurilenko 8 2 1 3 2 8 5
6 Soviet Union (2) Vladimir Kononovich 7 3 1 0 3 7 6
7 Soviet Union (12) Vladimir Gordeev 6 0 0 3 3 6 7
8 Soviet Union (16) Viktor Kalmykov 6 0 3 1 2 6 8
9 Czechoslovakia (5) Jiri Stancl 6 3 2 1 0 6 9
10 Soviet Union (11) Grigory Khlinovsky 6 1 2 2 1 6 10
11 East Germany (14) Dieter Tetzlaff 6 2 3 0 1 6 11
12 East Germany (8) Jürgen Hehlert 5 0 1 2 2 5 12
13 Soviet Union (13) Boris Cehanovich 4 1 0 2 1 4 13
14 Soviet Union (6) Nikolay Aksenov 1 1 0 0 0 1 14
15 Soviet Union (4) Nikolay Smirnov 0 F - - - 0 15
16 Soviet Union (3) Viktor Trofimov 0 F - - - 0 16
R1 Czechoslovakia (R1) Antonín Šváb Sr. 4 1 1 1 1 4 R1
R2 Soviet Union (R2) Gabdrakhman Kadyrov 3 0 2 0 1 3 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

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

Fifth round

European 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
1 New Zealand (4) Ivan Mauger 14 2 3 3 3 3 14 1
2 Soviet Union (1) Vladimir Gordeev 11 3 0 3 2 3 11 2
3 Soviet Union (10) Gennady Kurilenko 11 1 3 2 3 2 11 3
4 Sweden (12) Sören Sjösten 11 2 2 3 3 1 11 4
5 Denmark (5) Ole Olsen 11 2 3 2 2 2 11 5
6 New Zealand (11) Barry Briggs 10 3 3 1 3 0 10 6
7 Sweden (3) Anders Michanek 9 0 2 3 1 3 9 7
8 Soviet Union (2) Valeri Klementiev 8 1 2 1 1 3 8 8
9 England (15) Trevor Hedge 6 3 0 0 2 1 6 9
10 Soviet Union (13) Yury Dubinin 6 2 2 0 2 0 6 10
11 New Zealand (7) Ronnie Moore 5 3 1 1 F - 5 11
12 East Germany (6) Hans Jürgen Fritz 5 0 1 2 0 2 5 12
13 Soviet Union (14) Vladimir Kononovich 5 1 0 2 1 1 5 13
14 Soviet Union (9) Viktor Kalmykov 5 0 1 1 1 2 5 14
15 Australia (8) Jim Airey 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 15
16 Czechoslovakia (16) Zdenek Majstr 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 16
R1 Sweden (R1) Bengt Jansson 0 0 R1
R2 Soviet Union (R2) Yury Lombockiy 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

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

Polish qualifying

Pos. Rider 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total
1 Poland Jan Mucha 6 14 12 13 12 8 6 13 72
2 Poland Pawel Waloszek 9 12 11 6 12 11 12 13 71
3 Poland Andrzej Wyglenda 8 12 9 14 14 5 10 9 68
4 Poland Antoni Woryna 9 5 14 10 8 12 10 5 63
5 Poland Henryk Glucklich 12 9 3 9 9 6 12 7 58
6 Poland Jerzy Szczakiel 11 12 8 11 6 7 3 ns 58
7 Poland Zygfryd Friedek 7 7 9 7 10 12 11 ns 56
8 Poland Jozef Jarmula 6 11 10 8 6 6 ns 13 54
9 Poland Stanislaw Kasa 10 4 8 9 8 7 7 6 49
10 Poland Edmund Migoś 7 4 5 9 7 9 11 1 48
11 Poland Zygmunt Pytko 7 3 8 3 ns 7 10 +0 38
12 Poland Stanislaw Skowron 6 4 5 3 0 11 6 ns 35
13 Poland Henryk Żyto 8 8 4 5 ns 5 0 4 34
14 Poland Jerzy Trzeszkowski 0 7 7 0 5 ns ns 12 31
15 Poland Piotr Bruzda 7 2 2 1 7 5 3 5 29
16 Poland Stanisław Tkocz 5 4 5 9 3 ns ns ns 26
17 Poland Zbigniew Podlecki ns ns ns ns ns 2 5 11 18
18 Poland Jerzy Gryt ns ns ns ns ns 6 5 ns 11
19 Poland Wiktor Waloszek ns ns ns ns ns ns 3 7 10
20 Poland Jerzy Padewski ns ns ns ns 8 ns ns ns 8
21 Poland Leszek Marsz ns ns ns ns ns ns ns 8 8

World 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
1 New Zealand (10) Ivan Mauger 15 3 3 3 3 3 15 1
2 Poland (16) Paweł Waloszek 14 3 3 3 2 3 14 2
3 Poland (1) Antoni Woryna 13 3 3 2 3 2 13 3
4 Sweden (15) Sören Sjösten 9 2 3 1 3 0 9 4
5 Poland (2) Henryk Glücklich 9 2 2 3 2 0 9 5
6 Soviet Union (13) Valeri Klementiev 8 0 1 1 3 3 8 6
7 New Zealand (11) Barry Briggs 7 2 1 0 1 3 7 7
8 Poland (14) Andrzej Wyglenda 7 1 0 3 2 1 7 8
9 Sweden (4) Anders Michanek 7 0 1 2 2 2 7 9
10 Denmark (7) Ole Olsen 6 3 2 0 E 1 6 10
11 Poland (9) Jan Mucha 6 1 2 0 1 2 6 11
12 East Germany (3) Hans Jürgen Fritz 5 1 0 1 1 2 5 12
13 Soviet Union (6) Vladimir Gordeev 5 2 1 1 0 1 5 13
14 Soviet Union (12) Gennady Kurilenko 2 F 2 F - - 2 14
15 Poland (8) Zygfryd Friedek 2 F 0 2 F - 2 15
16 England (5) Trevor Hedge 0 E E F R - 0 16
R1 Poland (R1) Edmund Migoś 4 2 1 1 F 0 4 R1
R2 Poland (R2) Jerzy Szczakiel 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

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

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