1964 Speedway World Team Cup was the fifth edition of the
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Speedway World Team Cup
The Speedway World Team Cup was an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The competition started in 1960 and was replaced with the Speedway World Cup in 2001.
Format
From 1960 until 1985 each team consisted of four riders ...
to determine the team world champions.
The final took place in
Abensberg
Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around southwest of Regensburg, east of Ingolstadt, northwest of Landshut and north of Munich. It is situated on the river Abens, a tributary of the ...
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West Germany. The World Champion title was won by
Sweden
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(34 pts) who beat
Soviet Union (27 pts),
Great Britain (21 pts) and
Poland (16 pts).
Format
''* Great Britain seeded to the final''
Qualification
Continental Semi-Final 1
* May 25
*
Nowa Huta,
Kraków
Continental Semi-Final 2
* May 25
*
Svestosarevo
Scandinavian Round
* June 6
*
Hillerød
Continental Final
*
Lviv
(Yugoslavia replaced Bulgaria)
World final
*
Abensberg
Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around southwest of Regensburg, east of Ingolstadt, northwest of Landshut and north of Munich. It is situated on the river Abens, a tributary of the ...
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Abensberg Speedwaystadion
Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around southwest of Regensburg, east of Ingolstadt, northwest of Landshut and north of Munich. It is situated on the river Abens, a tributary of the ...
See also
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1964 Individual Speedway World Championship
The 1964 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 19th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.
New Zealander Barry Briggs secured his third world title with a five race 15 point maximum. Igor Plekha ...
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motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...
References
{{Speedway World Cup seasons
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
World Team