1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship

1972 World Pairs Championship

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The 1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the third official FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. ^{[1] [2] [3]} The final took place in Borås, Sweden.

The championship was won by England (24 points) who beat New Zealand after Run-Off (24 points also) and Sweden B (22 points) who beat Sweden A after a run-off. ^{[4] [5]}

Semifinal 1

• Wimbledon Stadium, London ^[6]
• 11 May

Pos.	Team	Rider	Points
	New Zealand (27 pts)	Ivan Mauger	15
		Ronnie Moore	12
	England (25 pts)	Ray Wilson	14
		Terry Betts	11
	Sweden (22 pts)	Anders Michanek	11
		Bengt Jansson	11
4	Scotland (15 pts)	Jim McMillan	9
		George Hunter	6
5	Australia (14 pts)	Geoff Curtis	7
		Garry Middleton	7
6	Denmark (9 pts)	Ole Olsen	7
		Paul Rosenkilde	2
7	Norway (9 pts)	Øyvind S. Berg	6
		Reidar Eide	3

Semifinal 2

• Gázvezeték Street Sports Complex, Debrecen
• 14 May

Pos.	Team	Rider	Points
	Poland (? pts)	Zbigniew Marcinkowski	?
		Wiktor Jastrzębski	?
	Hungary (? pts)	?	?
		?	?
	Czechoslovakia (21 pts)	Petr Ondrasik	11
		Jan Verner	10
4	? (? pts)	?	?
		?	?
5	? (? pts)	?	?
		?	?
6	? (? pts)	?	?
		?	?
7	? (? pts)	?	?
		?	?

World final

• Ryavallen, Borås
• 1 June 1972

Placing	Pair / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
1	England	24							6							14							24
	(11) Ray Wilson	15+3			3				1				3		3			2					3
	(12) Terry Betts	9			2				0				1		1			3					2*
2	New Zealand	24							8							16							24
	(13) Ivan Mauger	14+F				2			2			3				1			3		3
	(14) Ronnie Moore	10				1			3			2				2			0		2
3	Sweden B	22							8							16							22
	(7) Bernt Persson	13+3		2				3			3					3				2			0
	(8) Hasse Holmqvist	9		1				2			2					0				3			1
4	Sweden A	22							8							14							22
	(5) Anders Michanek	15+2		3			3			3					2				1			3
	(6) Bengt Jansson	7		0			2			1					0				2			2
5	Poland	15							6							10							15
	(1) Zbigniew Marcinkowski	13	3			3				2			2				3			F
	(2) Wiktor Jastrzębski	2	0			0				0			X				2			X
6	Czechoslovakia	12							4							10							12
	(3) Jan Holub I	5	1				0				1			3				0			0
	(4) Jiri Stancl	7	2				1				0			2				1			1
7	Hungary	6							2							4							6
	(9) Ferenc Radacsi	6			1			1				1		1			1					1
	(10) Pal Perenyi	0			0			0				0		0			0					X
Placing	Pair / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	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

See also

• 1972 Individual Speedway World Championship
• 1972 Speedway World Team Cup
• motorcycle speedway
• 1972 in sports

References

1. Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 99. ISBN   0-09-141751-1.
2. "World Pairs Championship 1968-1993". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
3. Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 27–28. ISBN   0-86215-017-5.
4. "Zapomniane turnieje: Mistrzostwa Świata Par (część 1)" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
5. "The World Pairs Final 1972". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
6. "World Pairs reduced to farce" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 12 May 1972. Retrieved 19 December 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.