1987 Speedway Champions Cup

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The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.

The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway event held each year organized by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) between 1986 and 1993.

Motorcycle speedway motorcycle sport

Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines which use only one gear and have no brakes; racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock. Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track the motorcycles reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).

Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

The 1987 championship was held at Miskolc and the winner was Zoltán Adorján from Hungary. [1]

Miskolc City with county rights in Northern Hungary, Hungary

Miskolc (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmiʃkolt͡s] is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 Miskolc is the fourth largest city in Hungary. It is also the county capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and the regional centre of Northern Hungary.

Zoltán Adorján Hungarian speedway rider

Zoltán Adorján is former international motorcycle speedway rider who appeared in two Speedway World Championship finals and finished third in the World Pairs Championship in 1990.

Results

PlacingRiderTotal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 91011121314151617181920PtsPos2122
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of Hungary.svg (16) Zoltán Adorján 12033331213
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Italy.svg (4) Armando Castagna 12123331222
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg (15) Neil Evitts 1133X231133
4 Flag of Sweden.svg (8) Per Jonsson 11303321142
5 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg (13) Antonín Kasper, Jr. 11132231151
6 Flag of Norway.svg (1) Arne Svendsen 1031231106
7 Flag of Germany.svg (12) Gerd Riss 9313F297
8 Flag of the German Democratic Republic.svg (2) Diethelm Trimer 72301178
9 Flag of Poland.svg (5) Wojciech Żabiałowicz 7222F179
10 Flag of Austria.svg (11) Heinrich Schatzer 6211F2610
11 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg (7) Valery Gordeev 512EE2511
12 Flag of Denmark.svg (14) Hans Peter Nielsen 42E2E0412
13 Flag of Bulgaria.svg (3) Nikolai Manev 400121413
14 Flag of Finland.svg (10) Juha Moksunen 301110314
15 Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg (6) Artur Horvat 202000215
16 Flag of the Netherlands.svg (9) Henk Stecman 210010216
R1 Flag of Hungary.svg (R1) Janosh Sceresh 00R1
R2 Flag of Hungary.svg (R2) Sandor Yheli 1 11R2
PlacingRiderTotal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910111213141516171819 20 PtsPos21 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

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The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.

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References

  1. "FIM Speedway Champions' Cup". World championships winners. 18 November 2004. Retrieved 7 January 2016.