Continental Speedway final

The Continental final was a Motorcycle speedway final sanctioned by the FIM as the qualifying round for the Speedway World Championship between 1976 and 2000.[1][2]

From 1952 to 1975 it acted as the final qualifier for the Championship round or European final but from 1976 to 1990 it was upgraded in stature and acted as a final qualifier for the World Championship final itself.[3] It was not held from 1991 to 1994 and then from 1995 to 2001 it acted as a final qualifier for the Speedway Grand Prix or Grand Prix Challenge.[4]

Editions

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Year Venue Winner Runner-up 3rd place
1952   Falköping   Rune Sörmander   Olle Nygren   Stig Pramberg
1953   Kumla   Basse Hveem   Olle Nygren   Dan Forsberg
1954   Linköping   Ove Fundin   Rune Sörmander   Sune Karlsson
1955   Abensberg   Fritz Dirtl   Josef Kamper   Georg Duneborn
1956   Oberhausen   Kjell Carlsson   Josef Seidl   Andrzej Krzesiński
1957   Vienna   Josef Hofmeister   Josef Seidl   Stanisław Tkocz
1958   Oberhausen   Joel Jansson   Josef Hofmeister   Josef Seidl
1959   Munich   Josef Hofmeister   Björn Knutson   Mieczysław Połukard
1960   Vienna   Josef Hofmeister   Henryk Żyto   Marian Kaiser
1961   Slaný   Florian Kapała   Igor Plekhanov   Stanisław Tkocz
1962   Wrocław   Marian Kaiser   Paweł Waloszek   Luboš Tomíček Sr.
1963   Wrocław   Stanisław Tkocz   Boris Samorodov   Antonín Kasper Sr.
1964   Slaný   Igor Plekhanov   Jaroslav Volf   Boris Samorodov
1965   Wrocław   Andrzej Wyglenda   Igor Plekhanov   Andrzej Pogorzelski
1966   Slaný   Andrzej Pogorzelski   Antoni Woryna   Konstanty Pociejkewicz
1967   Kempten   Andrzej Wyglenda   Jerzy Trzeszkowski   Igor Plekhanov
1968   Slaný   Gennady Kurilenko   Paweł Waloszek   Vladimir Smirnov
1969   Ufa   Antoni Woryna   Andrzej Wyglenda   Edward Jancarz
1970   Abensberg   Hans Jürgen Fritz   Valeri Klementiev   Zdenek Majstr
1971   Slaný   Henryk Glücklich   Jan Mucha   Gennady Kurilenko
1972   Cherkessk   Viktor Trofimov   Viktor Kalmykov   Anatoly Kuzmin
1973   Leningrad   Valery Gordeev   Grigory Khlinovsky   Vladimir Zapleshny
1974   Tolyatti   Vladimir Gordeev   Mikhail Starostin   Zenon Plech
1975   Leningrad   Edward Jancarz   Valery Gordeev   Viktor Kalmykov
1976   Leningrad   Egon Müller   Jiří Štancl   Valery Gordeev
1977   Tolyatti   Jan Verner   Egon Müller   Jiří Štancl
1978   Prague   Hans Wassermann   Jiří Štancl   Marek Cieślak
1979   Pöcking   Christoph Betzl   Mikhail Starostin   Zdeněk Kudrna
1980   Lonigo   Zenon Plech   Jiří Štancl   Aleš Dryml Sr.
1981   Prague   Egon Müller   Aleš Dryml Sr.   Edward Jancarz
1982   Leszno   Jiří Štancl   Edward Jancarz   Václav Verner
1983   Rybnik   Zenon Plech   Egon Müller   Jiří Štancl
1984   Rovno   Egon Müller   Karl Maier   Jiří Štancl
1985   Pöcking   Egon Müller   Armando Castagna   Zoltán Adorján
1986   Wiener Neustadt   Viktor Kuznetsov   Antonín Kasper Jr.   Armando Castagna
1987   Lonigo   Gerd Riss   Roman Jankowski   Antonín Kasper Jr.
1988   Leszno   Zenon Kasprzak[5]   Antal Kocso   Roman Jankowski
1989   Debrecen   Zoltán Adorján[6]   Karl Maier   Roman Matoušek
1990   Norden   Gerd Riss   Zoltán Adorján   Armando Castagna
1991–1994 not held
1995   Miskolc   Zoltán Adorján   Stefano Alfonso   Antonín Kasper Jr.
1996[7]   Abensberg   Tomasz Gollob   Sławomir Drabik   Zoltán Adorján
1997   Lonigo   Armando Castagna   Zoltán Adorján   Tomáš Topinka
1998   Debrecen   Antonín Kasper Jr.   Marián Jirout   Roman Povazhny
1999   Wrocław   Rafał Dobrucki   Piotr Protasiewicz   Sławomir Drabik
2000   Lonigo   Matej Ferjan   Piotr Protasiewicz   Piotr Świst
2001   Gdańsk   Sebastian Ułamek   Bohumil Brhel   Wiesław Jaguś

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 100. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
  3. ^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. p. 22. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
  4. ^ "Continental Final". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Nielsen to win Hans down". Reading Evening Post. 3 September 1988. Retrieved 10 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ Oakes, Peter (1990). Speedway Yearbook 1990. Front Page Books. p. 12. ISBN 0-948882-15-8.
  7. ^ "27.07.1996.Speedway Continental final - Abensberg (GER)". You Tube. Retrieved 20 January 2023.