1998 Speedway World Team Cup

1998 Speedway World Team Cup

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The 1998 Speedway World Team Cup was the 39th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. ^{[1] [2]}

The final took place on 11 September at the Vojens Speedway Center in Denmark. The winners were the United States team who claimed their fifth title. ^{[3] [4]}

First round

• 7 June 1998
• Stadium Lokomotīve, Daugavpils
• Austria and France withdrew

1st	2nd	3rd
Latvia 35 10.Nikolay Kokin (2,1,3,3,2,2,3,2) - 18 11.Vladimir Voronkov (3,3,3,1,3,3,1,e) - 17	Norway 29 1.Lars Gunnestad (3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3) - 20 2.Arnt Førland (2,1,2,1,2,e,0,1) - 9	Ukraine 27 13.Igor Marko (1,2,2,2,3,2,e,2) - 14 14.Aleksandr Lyatosinskiy (2,1,2,1,2,1,2,2) - 13

4th	5th	track reserve
Slovenia 26 4.Matej Ferjan (1,0,3,1,3,2,3,3) - 16 5.Tomas Šustersič (3,2,f,0,1,1,2,1) - 10	Italy 3 7.Simone Terenzani (0,0,1,0,0,1,1,0) - 3 8.Nicolo Andriolo (0,0,0,e,0,0,0,0) - 0	16.Aleksandr Biznya - ns 17.Maksim Andreev - ns

• Latvia and Norway to second round

Second round

• 28 June 1998
• Stroitel Stadium, Togliatti
• Norway withdrew and were replaced by Ukraine, England and Australia withdrew

1st	2nd	3rd
Czech Republic 39 10.Marian Jirout (3,2,2,3,3,1) - 14 11.Adrian Rymel (3,3,1,*,1,2) - 10 12.Antonín Kasper Jr. (3,3,*,3,3,3) - 15	Hungary 35 1.Zoltán Adorján (2,2,3,3,3,3) - 16 2.Sándor Tihanyi (3,3,3,1,2,2) - 14 3.Róbert Nagy (1,e,*,2,2,*) - 5	Russia 32 7.Roman Povazhny - (1,2,2,2,2,3) - 12 8.Sergej Darkin (2,3,2,2,2,2) - 13 9.Oleg Kurguskin (1,2,*,1,3,*) - 7

4th	5th
Latvia 8 13.Nikolay Kokin (1,1,0,1,1,f) - 4 14. 15.Aleksandr Biznya (2,0,0,1,0,1) - 4	Ukraine 2 4.Igor Marko (f,-,-,-,-,-) - 0 5.Aleksandr Lyatosinskiy (0,1,1,0,0,-) - 2 6.

• Czech Republic and Hungary to World final

World Final

• 11 September 1998
• Speedway Center, Vojens

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	22
1	USA	28							10							18							28
	(1) Greg Hancock	12	2			3				1			2				2			2
	(2) Billy Hamill	16	3			2				2			3				3			3
	(15) Sam Ermolenko	0
2	Sweden	24							10							15							24
	(5) Tony Rickardsson	5		3			2			0					-				-			-
	(6) Jimmy Nilsen	13		2			3			3					0				3			2
	(17) Peter Karlsson	6													2				1			3
3	Denmark	23							8							13							23
	(11) Hans Nielsen	10			2				2				1		1			2					2
	(12) Brian Karger	4			3				1				0		-			-					-
	(20) Brian Andersen	9													3			3					3
4	Poland	17							4							12							17
	(13) Tomasz Gollob	15				1			3			3				3			2		3
	(14) Jacek Gollob	0				0			E			-				-			-		E
	(21) Robert Dados	2										E				2			0
5	Germany	14							6							12							14
	(9) Gerd Riss	1			1			-				-		-			-					-
	(10) Robert Barth	6			0			3				1		0			1					1
	(19) Matthias Kröger	7						2				2		3			0					E
6	Czech Republic	14							2							10							14
	(3) Antonín Kasper Jr.	9	1				1				3			2				0			2
	(4) Marian Jirout	5	0				0				2			1				1			1
	(16) Adrian Rymel	0
7	Hungary	6							2							4							6
	(7) Zoltán Adorján	5		1				1			1					0				1			1
	(8) Sándor Tihanyi	1		0				0			0					1				0			0
	(18) -	0
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	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

See also

• 1998 Speedway Grand Prix

References

1. "FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP/ SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS" (PDF). Motor Sport Top 20. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
2. "1998 WORLD TEAM CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
3. "World Team Cup 1960-1990". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
4. "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 12 July 2021.