Alexander Balashov (born 28 May 1967) is a former international
speedway rider from Russia.
Speedway career
Balashov is a three times world champion winning the gold medal at the
Individual Ice Speedway World Championship
The Individual Ice Speedway World Championship is an Ice speedway championship held annually to determine an individual World Champion.
History
The first Championships were held in 1966. A European Championship was held for the two years precedi ...
in the
1994 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship
The 1994 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship was the 29th edition of the World Championship The Championship was held as a Grand Prix series over ten rounds.
Alexander Balashov of Russia won his first World title.
Classification
Se ...
,
1996 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship and
1998 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship.
In addition he won the
Team Ice Racing World Championship
The FIM Ice Speedway of Nations, formerly known as the Ice Speedway Team World Championship, is an international ice speedway competition, first held in Kalinin (Tver), USSR, in 1979. Since its establishment, the tournament has been noted by a cont ...
seven times (1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999).
References
1967 births
Living people
Russian speedway riders
{{Russia-speedway-bio-stub