1971 Speedway World Team Cup

The 1971 Speedway World Team Cup was the 12th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.^[1][2][3]

The final took place at Stadion Olimpijski (Wrocław) in Poland. The title was won by Great Britain for the second time.^[4][5][6][7]

Qualifying

British round

• Great Britain (including Commonwealth riders) seeded to World Final.

Scandinavian round

• 20 June
• Fredericia Speedway Stadium, Fredericia

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
1	Sweden	41	Anders Michanek 11 Bernt Persson 11 Bengt Jansson 10 Sören Sjösten 7 Leif Enecrona 2
2	Denmark	33	Ole Olsen 12 Neils Weiss 8 Bent Nørregaard-Jensen 7 Kurt Bøgh 6 Jorn Mogensen 0
3	Norway	21	Reidar Eide 6 Ulf Lovaas 6 Odd Fossengen 5 Oyvind S. Berg 3 Svein Kaasa 1
4	Finland	1	Matti Olin 1 Erkki Hannula 0 Reima Lohkovuori 0 Jouko Naskali 0 Tapio Leppasalko 0

Continental round

Quarter-Final 13 June Kovinar Stadium, Maribor Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  Soviet Union 46 Viktor Trofimov 9 Gennady Kurilenko 9 Anatoly Kuzmin 9 Aleksandr Pavlov 9 Grigori Khlinovsky 8 2  Yugoslavia 23 Vlado Kocuvan 7 Ivan Molan 6 Drasko Orsic 6 Vlado Miler 4 3  Bulgaria 15 Nedelko Nedelkov 6 Peter Iliev 4 Alexander Kostov 4 Alexej Antonov 1 4  Italy 12 Annibale Pretto 9 Gianni Pizzo 1 Giuseppe Pizzo 1 Franco Rupil 1

Quarter-final 13 June Rodenbach Motodrom, Rodenbach Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  East Germany 40 Peter Liebing 11 Hans Jürgen Fritz 11 Dieter Tetzlaff 10 Jochen Dinse 0 2  West Germany 36 Manfred Poschenreider 12 Rudolf Kastl 9 Josef Angermüller 8 Jan Käter 7 3  Austria 11 Josef Haider 5 Heinz Zimmermann 4 Gunther Walla 1 Herbert Prosi 1 Alex Taudtmann 0 4  Hungary 9 Pal Perenyi 3 Barnabas Gyepes 3 Sandor Csatho 2 Ferenc Radacsi 1 Janos Szoeke 0

Semi-Final 4 July Illerstadion, Kempten Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  Soviet Union 36 Vladimir Gordeev 12 Grigori Khlinovsky 12 Aleksandr Pavlov 7 Gennady Kurilenko 5 Viktor Trofimov 0 2  East Germany 30 Dieter Tetzlaff 10 Hans Jürgen Fritz 9 Peter Liebing 8 Jochen Dinse 2 Horst Krüger 1 3  West Germany 25 Manfred Poschenreider 9 Jan Käter 7 Josef Angermüller 5 Dieter Dauderer 4 4  Yugoslavia 5 Ivan Molan 3 Vlado Miler 1 Drasko Orsic 0 Vlado Kocuvan 0

Final 25 August Leningrad Speedway Stadium, Leningrad Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  Soviet Union 46 Vladimir Gordeev 12 Vladimir Smirnov 11 Georgi Ivanov 11 Gennady Kurilenko 11 2  Poland 30 Edward Jancarz 9 Henryk Glücklich 9 Andrzej Wyglenda 8 Jerzy Szczakiel 4 3  Czechoslovakia 10.5 Pavel Mareš 3.5 Miloslav Verner 3 Jiří Štancl 2 Jan Holub I 2 Václav Verner 0 4  East Germany 9.5 Dieter Tetzlaff 5 Peter Liebing 2 Hans-Jürgen Fritz 1.5 Horst Krüger 1 Jochen Dinse 0

World final

• 26 September
• Olympic Stadium

Pos.		National team	Pts.	Riders
		Great Britain	37	Ray Wilson - 12 Ivan Mauger - 10 Jim Airey - 9 Barry Briggs - 6 Ronnie Moore - dnr
		Soviet Union	22	Grigory Khlinovsky - 8 Vladimir Smirnov - 7 Vladimir Gordeev - 4 Anatoly Kuzmin - 3 Viktor Trofimov - dnr
		Poland	19	Paweł Waloszek - 5 Henryk Glücklich - 4 Antoni Woryna - 4 Edward Jancarz - 4 Andrzej Wyglenda - 2
4th		Sweden	18	Anders Michanek - 9 Sören Sjösten - 3 Bengt Jansson 3 Leif Enecrona 3 Bernt Persson 0

See also

• 1971 Individual Speedway World Championship
• 1971 Speedway World Pairs Championship

References

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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.
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