1971 Individual Speedway World Championship
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The 1971 Individual Speedway World Championship.

World final

  • September 10, 1971 Göteborg, Ullevi
    Ullevi
    Ullevi is a stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. The stadium was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then Ullevi has also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and the 2006 European Championships in Athletics, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finals in 1983 and 1990, the UEFA Euro 1992...


Pos. Rider Heat Scores Total
1   Ole Olsen  (3,3,3,3,3) 15
2   Ivan Mauger
Ivan Mauger
Ivan Mauger, OBE, MBE, is a retired motorcycle speedway rider. He won a record six World Championships, a feat only equalled by Tony Rickardsson of Sweden...

 
(3,1,3,2,3) 12+3
3   Bengt Jansson
Bengt Jansson
Bengt Gustaf Jansson is a former Swedish international speedway rider."Banger" was runner up in the 1967 World Final to fellow countryman Ove Fundin after losing a race-off and finished third in 1971, again after a run-off.He rode in Britain for West Ham Hammers, Edinburgh Monarchs, Hackney Hawks,...

 
(2,3,1,3,3) 12+2
4   Ray Wilson
Ray Wilson (speedway rider)
Ray Wilson is a former international speedway rider who was World Pairs Champion in 1972 and British Speedway Champion in 1973, was also England Team Captain for 5years in the early 1970s. He was the first Englishman to record a maximum score in a World Team Cup Final...

 
(3,3,1,3,1) 11
5   Anders Michanek
Anders Michanek
Anders Michanek is a Speedway rider. In 1974 he won the Speedway World Championship in his Swedish homeland with a maximum score of 15 points. He also won the World Pairs Championship with the late Tommy Jansson in 1973 and 1975 and with Sören Sjösten in 1974.Michanek had a very successful career...

 
(2,2,2,3,2) 11
6   Bernt Persson
Bernt Persson
Bernt Eveart Persson is a former Swedish international speedway rider who finished runner up in the 1972 Speedway World Championship final....

 
(3,1,2,1,2) 9
7   Jim Airey
Jim Airey
James Sydney "Jim" Airey is a former international motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the 1971 World Final in Göteborg, Sweden and was a member of the Great Britain team that won the 1971 Speedway World Team Cup in Wrocław, Poland.-Australia:Jim Airey started racing Speedway in the early-1960s,...

 
(2,1,3,2,0) 8
8   Sören Sjösten
Sören Sjösten
Sören Willy Ernfrid Sjösten was a motorcycle speedway rider. He won the world pairs championship in 1974 with Anders Michanek and became world team champion three times representing Sweden, in 1962, 1964 and 1970. Sjösten also appeared in six individual World Championship Finals with two bronze...

 
(2,2,2,1,1) 8
9   Nigel Boocock
Nigel Boocock
Nigel Boocock is a former speedway rider who appeared in eight Speedway World Championship finals and was a reserve in one other .-Career:...

 
(1,2,1,0,2) 6
10   Ronnie Moore
Ronnie Moore (speedway rider)
Ronnie Moore MBE is a former international Speedway rider. His family moved to New Zealand when he was still a child and although Moore was born in Australia, he has always considered himself to be a New Zealander....

 
(1,2,0,1,1) 6
11   Eric Boocock
Eric Boocock
Eric Boocock is a former Speedway rider who appeared in three Speedway World Championship finals.-Career:...

 
(0,0,3,1,0) 4
12   Leif Enecrona
Leif Enecrona
Leif Enecrona is a former international motorcycle speedway rider who reached the finals of the Speedway World Championship three times. He rode for Gamarna from 1961 to 1966 and then for Getingarna from 1967 to 1976 as well as a brief spell in the UK for the Long Eaton Archers in 1966. He won the...

 
(0,0,0,2,2) 4
13   Jiří Štancl
Jirí Štancl
Jiří Štancl is a former international speedway rider who reached the final of theSpeedway World Championship on nine occasions, finishing a career best 9th in 1982 in Los Angeles...

 
(0,1,1,0,1) 3
14   Tommy Jansson
Tommy Jansson
Per Tommy Jansson was a motorcycle speedway rider. He was one of Sweden's most exciting speedway prospects in the 1970s but was killed in the Swedish Final a World Championship Qualifying Round meeting....

 
(1,0,0,0,0) 1
15   Jerzy Szczakiel
Jerzy Szczakiel
Jerzy Szczakiel is a Speedway rider. He is one of two Polish nationales to win the Speedway World Championship, the other being 2010 Speedway Grand Prix champion Tomasz Gollob....

 
(0,0,0,0,0) 0
16   Vladimir Gordeev
Vladimir Gordeev
Vladimir Gordeev is a former Soviet international speedway rider who reached the finals of the Speedway World Championship three times but was disqualified in 1971 for using illegal fuel additives...

 (Dsq)
(1,3,2,2,3) 11
R1   Göte Nordin  did not ride
R2   Tony Lomas  did not ride


Note : Vladimir Gordeev
Vladimir Gordeev
Vladimir Gordeev is a former Soviet international speedway rider who reached the finals of the Speedway World Championship three times but was disqualified in 1971 for using illegal fuel additives...

 was disqualified after illegal additives were found in his fuel.

Heat by Heat Classification

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