Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship

World Longtrack Championship
Sport	Motorcycle speedway
Founded	1957
Most titles	Gerd Riss (8 times)

This is the complete list of Individual Long Track World Championship medalists from 1971. Also included are the medalists from 1957 to 1970 when the championship was known as the European Individual Long Track Championship.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Medalists edit

European Long Track Championship edit

(*) Shows position was gained after a run-off.

Year	Venue	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
1957	Solvalla	Basse Hveem	Josef Hofmeister	Eric Brafvold
1958	Mühldorf	Josef Hofmeister	Aulis Tuominen	Josef Kamper
1959	Käpylä	Josef Hofmeister	Antti Pajari	Olle Nygren
1960	Plattling	Josef Hofmeister	Josef Seidl	Josef Sinzinger
1961	Oslo	Timo Laine	Ove Fundin	Erik Simonsen
1962	Mühldorf	Bertil Stridh	Joseph Seidl	Timo Laine
1963	Malmö	Bertil Stridh	Kurt W. Petersen	Manfred Poschenreider
1964	Scheeßel	Kurt W. Petersen	Ollie Turunen	Manfred Poschenreider
1965	Seinäjoki	Björn Knutson	Timo Laine	Joseph Seidl
1966	Mühldorf	Manfred Poschenreider	Kurt W. Petersen	Jon Ødegaard
1967	Scheeßel	Manfred Poschenreider	Don Godden	Jon Ødegaard
1968	Mühldorf	Manfred Poschenreider	Don Godden	Kurt W. Petersen
1969	Oslo	Don Godden	Jon Ødegaard	Kurt W. Petersen
1970	Scheeßel	Jon Ødegaard	Don Godden	Hans Zierk

World Long Track Championship edit

Year	Venue	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
1971	Oslo	Ivan Mauger	Manfred Poschenreider	Runo Wedin
1972	Mühldorf	Ivan Mauger	Manfred Poschenreider	Jon Ødegaard
1973	Oslo	Ole Olsen	Hans Siegl	Manfred Poschenreider
1974	Scheeßel	Egon Müller	Ivan Mauger	Alois Wiesböck
1975	Gornja Radgona	Egon Müller	Ivan Mauger	Ole Olsen
1976	Mariánské Lázně	Ivan Mauger	Ole Olsen	Egon Müller
1977	Aalborg	Anders Michanek	Hans Siegl	Ole Olsen
1978	Mühldorf	Egon Müller	Alois Wiesböck	Peter Collins(*)
1979	Mariánské Lázně	Alois Wiesböck	Anders Michanek	Ole Olsen
1980	Scheeßel	Karl Maier	Egon Müller	Josef Aigner Christoph Betzl
1981	Gornja Radgona	Michael Lee	Christoph Betzl	Anders Michanek(*)
1982	Korskro	Karl Maier	Alois Wiesböck	Egon Müller
1983	Mariánské Lázně	Shawn Moran	Jiří Štancl	Karl Maier
1984	Herxheim	Erik Gundersen	Egon Müller	Karl Maier
1985	Korskro	Simon Wigg	Jiří Štancl	Peter Collins
1986	Pfarrkirchen	Erik Gundersen	Peter Collins(*)	Marcel Gerhard
1987	Mühldorf	Karl Maier	Simon Wigg	Shawn Moran(*)
1988	Scheeßel	Karl Maier	Klaus Lausch	Chris Morton
1989	Mariánské Lázně	Simon Wigg	Aleš Dryml Sr.	Karl Maier
1990	Herxheim	Simon Wigg	Karl Maier(*)	Hans Pingel
1991	Mariánské Lázně	Gerd Riss	Aleš Dryml Sr.(*)	Jan O. Pedersen
1992	Pfarrkirchen	Marcel Gerhard	Mitch Shirra	Karl Maier
1993	Mühldorf	Simon Wigg	Karl Maier	Marcel Gerhard(*)
1994	Mariánské Lázně	Simon Wigg	Andre Pollehn	Gerd Riss(*)
1995	Scheeßel	Kelvin Tatum(*)	Simon Wigg	Walter Scherwitzki
1996	Herxheim	Gerd Riss	Robert Barth	Bernd Diener

Grand Prix Series (since 1997) edit

Year	Venues	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
1997 details	five events	Tommy Dunker	Steve Schofield	Glenn Cunningham
1998 details	five events	Kelvin Tatum	Gerd Riss	Steve Schofield
1999 details	five events	Gerd Riss	Robert Barth	Kelvin Tatum
2000 details	five events	Kelvin Tatum	Robert Barth	Matthias Kröger
2001 details	four events	Gerd Riss	Kelvin Tatum	Robert Barth
2002 details	five events	Robert Barth	Gerd Riss	Kelvin Tatum
2003 details	six events	Robert Barth	Kelvin Tatum	Gerd Riss
2004 details	five events	Gerd Riss	Kelvin Tatum	Bernd Diener
2005 details	nine events	Robert Barth	Gerd Riss	Paul Hurry
2006 details	five events	Robert Barth	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Gerd Riss
2007 details	three events	Gerd Riss	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2008 details	four events	Gerd Riss	Glen Phillips	Dirk Fabriek
2009 details	five events	Gerd Riss	Stephane Tresarrieu	Dirk Fabriek
2010 details	six events	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Theo Pijper	Richard Speiser
2011 details	six events	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Richard Speiser	Stephan Katt
2012 details	six events	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Martin Smolinski	Josef Franc
2013 details	six events	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Jannick de Jong	Richard Hall
2014 details	five events	Erik Riss	Jannick de Jong	Joonas Kylmäkorpi
2015 details	four events	Jannick de Jong	Erik Riss	Dimitri Bergé
2016 details ^[9]	five events	Erik Riss	Jannick de Jong	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2017 details	five events	Mathieu Trésarrieu	Michael Hartel	Josef Franc
2018 details	five events	Martin Smolinski	Dimitri Bergé	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2019 details	five events	Dimitri Bergé	Martin Smolinski	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2020 details	two events	Lukas Fienhage	Kenneth Kruse Hansen	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2021 details	four events	Romano Hummel	Martin Smolinski	Theo Pijper
2022 details^[10]^[11]	six events	Mathieu Trésarrieu	Zach Wajtknecht	Chris Harris
2023 details	six events	Martin Smolinski	Chris Harris	Kenneth Kruse Hansen

Riders edit

There have been 369 competitors from 22 countries.

Classification edit

Classification from the start of the World Long Track Championship in 1971.

No.	Rider	Nationality	Total
1.	Gerd Riss	Germany	14	8	3	3
2.	Simon Wigg	England	7	5	2
3.	Robert Barth	Germany	8	4	3	1
4.	Karl Maier	Germany	10	4	2	4
5.	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Finland	7	4	2	1
6.	Kelvin Tatum	England	8	3	3	2
7.	Egon Müller	Germany	7	3	2	2
8.	Ivan Mauger	New Zealand	5	3	2
9.	Martin Smolinski	Germany	5	2	3
10.	Erik Riss	Germany	3	2	1
11.	Mathieu Trésarrieu	France	7	2		5
12.	Erik Gundersen	Denmark	2	2
13.	Jannick de Jong	Netherlands	4	1	3
14.	Alois Wiesböck	Germany	4	1	2	1
15.	Ole Olsen	Denmark	5	1	1	3
16.	Anders Michanek	Sweden	3	1	1	1
17.	Marcel Gerhard	Switzerland	3	1		2
18.	Shawn Moran	United States	2	1		1
19.	Michael Lee	England	1	1
	Tommy Dunker	Germany	1	1

Records edit

Most Appearances in Final: Gerd Riss 25.
Most Overall Points: Theo Pijper 1369.
Most One Day Finals: Egon Müller 20.
Most One Day Points: Karl Maier 329.
Most Grand-Prix Series Appearances: Theo Pijper 24.
Most Grand-Prix Appearances: Theo Pijper 104.
Most Grand-Prix Points: Theo Pijper 1369.
Most Grand-Prix Podiums Mathieu Trésarrieu 34.
Most Grand-Prix Wins Gerd Riss & Joonas Kylmäkorpi 16

Records up to date and including the 2023 Grand Prix series.

References edit

^ "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB.
^ "Speedway and Longtrack". Speedway.org. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
^ "World Longtrack finals 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes" (PDF). Speedway Plus.com. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.
^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 29–30. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 102. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. p. 290. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
^ Montague, Trevor (2004). The A-Z of Sport. Little, Brown. pp. 511–512. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
^ "World Longtrack Championship 2016 Overall Standings - Grasstrack GB". grasstrackgb.co.uk.
^ "World Longtrack Championship 2022 Overall Standings" (PDF). FIM.
^ "King Mat, champ Zach". Speedway Star page 20. 17 September 2022.

Books

Loader, Tony (1991). Loader's International Speedway Annual 1991. Tony Loader. pp. 31–33. ISSN 1036-4404.

External links edit

GrasstrackGB

[1] "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB.

[2] "Speedway and Longtrack". Speedway.org. Retrieved 28 March 2024.

[3] "World Longtrack finals 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes" (PDF). Speedway Plus.com. Retrieved 28 March 2024.

[4] Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.

[5] Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 29–30. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.

[6] Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 102. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.

[7] Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. p. 290. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.

[8] Montague, Trevor (2004). The A-Z of Sport. Little, Brown. pp. 511–512. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.

[details-9] "World Longtrack Championship 2016 Overall Standings - Grasstrack GB". grasstrackgb.co.uk.

[10] "World Longtrack Championship 2022 Overall Standings" (PDF). FIM.

[11] "King Mat, champ Zach". Speedway Star page 20. 17 September 2022.

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