1968 Speedway World Team Cup

The 1968 Speedway World Team Cup was the ninth edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.^[1][2][3]

The final took place at Wembley Stadium in London. The title was won by for the first time by the Great Britain national speedway team. The previous eight editions had all been won by Sweden (five wins) or Poland (three wins).^[4][5][6]

Qualification

Continental Semi-Final 16 June Paul Greifzu Stadium, Stralsund Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  East Germany 47 Jochen Dinse 12 Jürgen Hehlert 12 Gerhard Uhlenbrock 12 Hans Jürgen Fritz 11 2  Hungary 18 Barnabas Gyepes 8 Istvan Radoczi 5 Janos Bernath 4 Ferenc Radacsi 1 3  West Germany 18 Manfred Poschenreider 6 Heinrich Sprenger 5 Rudolf Kastl 5 Dieter Dauderer 2 4  Yugoslavia 13 Ivan Molan 5 Franc Babic 4 Valentin Medved 2 Drago Perko 2

Continental Final 28 June Slaný Speedway Stadium, Slaný Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  Poland 43 Andrzej Wyglenda 12 Paweł Waloszek 12 Antoni Woryna 12 Henryk Glucklich 6 Jerzy Padewski 1 2  Czechoslovakia 26 Jan Holub I 9 Jaroslav Volf 8 Frantisek Ledecky 6 Miloslav Verner 3 Antonín Šváb Sr. 0 3  Soviet Union 19 Viktor Trofimov 7 Vladimir Smirnov 6 Yuri Chekranov 4 Igor Plechanov 1 Gennady Kurilenko 1 4  East Germany 8 Hans Jürgen Fritz 3 Jochen Dinse 2 Gerhard Uhlenbrock 2 Jürgen Hehlert 1

• Great Britain (which included riders from Australia and New Zealand) and Sweden were seeded to the final.

WORLD FINAL 21 September London, Wembley Stadium
Pos. National team Pts. 1  Great Britain 40 2  Sweden 30 3  Poland 19 4  Czechoslovakia 7

World final

The recently crowned world individual champion Ivan Mauger from New Zealand helped Great Britain win their first World Cup.

• 21 September
• Wembley Stadium

Pos.		National team	Pts.	Riders
		Great Britain	40	Ivan Mauger - 12 Nigel Boocock - 10 Martin Ashby - 8 Barry Briggs - 7 Norman Hunter - 3
		Sweden	30	Ove Fundin - 11 Bengt Jansson - 7 Anders Michanek - 7 Olle Nygren - 3 Torbjörn Harrysson - 2
		Poland	19	Edmund Migoś - 8 Edward Jancarz - 6 Andrzej Wyglenda - 2 Henryk Glücklich - 2 Paweł Waloszek - 1
4th		Czechoslovakia	7	Antonín Kasper Sr. - 3 Luboš Tomíček Sr. - 2 Jan Holub I 1 Jaroslav Volf 1

See also

• 1968 Individual Speedway World Championship
• 1968 Speedway World Pairs Championship

References

1. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. p. 290. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
2. Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 25–26. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
3. Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 98. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
4. "World Team Cup 1960-1990". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
5. "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
6. "FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP/ SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS" (PDF). Motor Sport Top 20. Retrieved 13 July 2021.