1991 Speedway World Pairs Championship

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The 1991 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the twenty-second FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship, held on 20 July 1991. [1] The final took place in Poznań, Poland. [2] The championship was won by Denmark (28 points) who beat Sweden (24 points) and Norway (19 points). [3] [4]

Semi final 1

Pos.TeamRiderPoints
1Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden (27 pts) Per Jonsson 14
Henka Gustafsson 13
2Flag of Norway.svg  Norway (20 pts) Lars Gunnestad 14
Einar Kyllingstad 6
3Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia (20 pts) Bohumil Brhel 16
Zdeněk Tesař 4
Antonín Kasper Jr. 0
4Flag of England.svg  England (19 pts) Kelvin Tatum 9
Gary Havelock 6
Jeremy Doncaster 4
5Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia (18 pts) Glenn Doyle 8
Todd Wiltshire 5
Leigh Adams 5
6Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary (16 pts) Zoltán Adorján 8
Sándor Tihanyi 8
7Flag of Austria.svg  Austria (6 pts) Franz Leitner 5
Andreas Bössner 1
Toni Pilotto 0

Semi final 2

Pos.TeamRiderPoints
1Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark (26 pts) Hans Nielsen 14
Tommy Knudsen 12
2Flag of Italy.svg  Italy (20+3 pts) Armando Castagna 16+3
Valentino Furlanetto 4
3Flag of Germany.svg  Germany (20+2 pts) Gerd Riss 12
Klaus Lausch 7+2
Tommy Dunker 1
4Flag of the United States.svg  United States (19 pts) Ronnie Correy 12
Sam Ermolenko 7
5Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand (17 pts) Mitch Shirra 15
Gary Allan 2
6Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union (14 pts) Rif Saitgareev 9
Oleg Kurguskin 5
Mikhail Starostin 0
7Flag of Finland.svg  Finland (10 pts) Juha Moksunen 5
Vesa Ylinen 5

World final

Pos.TeamRiderPoints
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark (28 pts) Hans Nielsen 14
Jan O. Pedersen 14
Tommy Knudsen
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden (24 pts) Henrik Gustafsson 9
Jimmy Nilsen 8
Per Jonsson 7
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of Norway.svg  Norway (19 pts) Lars Gunnestad 11
Einar Kyllingstad 8
Tor Einar Hielm
4Flag of Germany.svg  Germany (18 pts) Gerd Riss 9
Klaus Lausch 9
Tommy Dunker
5Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia (18 pts) Bohumil Brhel 12
Roman Matoušek 6
Zdeněk Tesař 0
6Flag of Italy.svg  Italy (10 pts) Armando Castagna 9
Valentino Furlanetto 1
Fabrizio Vesprini 0
7Flag of Poland.svg  Poland (9 pts) Ryszard Dołomisiewicz 5
Piotr Świst 3
Wojciech Załuski 1

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