Ice Speedway of Nations

The FIM Ice Speedway of Nations, formerly known as the Ice Speedway Team World Championship, is an international ice speedway competition, first held in Kalinin (Tver), USSR, in 1979.[1] Since its establishment, the tournament has been noted by a continued Russian dominance: the Soviet Union, Commonwealth of Independent States and Russia have won all but three tournaments. The only non-Russian teams to have won were West Germany in 1983, and Sweden - in 1985, 1995 and 2002.[2] [3] [4]

List of championships edit

Year Venue Winner Runner Up Third
1979   Kalinin   Soviet Union   Czechoslovakia   West Germany
1980   Eindhoven   Soviet Union   Czechoslovakia   Sweden
1981   Inzell   Soviet Union   Czechoslovakia   Sweden
1982   Kalinin   Soviet Union   Czechoslovakia   Sweden
1983   Berlin   West Germany   Sweden   Soviet Union
1984   Deventer   Soviet Union   Sweden   Finland
1985   Inzell   Sweden   Soviet Union   West Germany
1986   Leningrad   Soviet Union   Sweden   West Germany
1987   Heerenveen   Soviet Union   Sweden   West Germany
1988   Grenoble   Soviet Union   Sweden   Finland
1989   Assen   Soviet Union   Sweden   Czechoslovakia
1990   Almaty   Soviet Union   Sweden   West Germany
1991   Inzell   Soviet Union   Czechoslovakia   Sweden
1992   Oulu   CIS   Sweden   Germany
1993   Assen   Russia   Sweden   Netherlands
1994   Karlstad   Russia   Sweden   Germany
1995   Frankfurt am Main   Sweden   Russia   Kazakhstan
1996   Izhevsk   Russia   Sweden   Kazakhstan
1997   Berlin   Russia   Sweden   Finland
1998   Göteborg   Russia   Sweden   Finland
1999   Berlin   Russia   Sweden   Austria
2000   Berlin   Russia   Finland   Sweden
2001   Berlin   Russia   Austria   Germany
2002   Krasnogorsk   Sweden   Russia   Europe
2003   Saransk   Russia   Sweden   Germany
2004   Inzell   Russia   Germany   Austria
2005   Krasnogorsk   Russia   Europe   Germany
2006   Berlin   Russia   Sweden   Finland
2007   Saransk   Russia   Sweden   Germany
2008   Krasnogorsk   Russia   Austria   Finland
2009   Inzell[5]   Russia   Austria   Germany
2010   Krasnogorsk   Russia   Sweden   Austria
2011   Berlin   Russia   Austria   Czech Republic
2012   Tolyatti   Russia   Austria   Czech Republic
2013   Sanok   Russia   Austria   Sweden
2014   Tolyatti   Russia   Sweden   Finland
2015   Berlin   Russia   Austria   Czech Republic
2016   Tolyatti   Russia   Sweden   Austria
2017   Inzell   Russia   Austria   Germany
2018   Shadrinsk   Russia   Sweden   Austria
2019   Tolyatti   Russia   Sweden   Austria
2020   Berlin   Russia   Sweden   Germany
2021 and 2022 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "HISTORY OF ICE RACING". FIM.
  2. ^ "World Ice Team Championships". Edinburgh Speedway.
  3. ^ "Team Final". Speedway.com.
  4. ^ "Team Champions". eisspeedway. Archived from the original on 2018-01-29. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  5. ^ "Rosjanie obronili tytuł". SportoweFakty.pl. 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2009-02-01.

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