The Speedway World Pairs Championship was an annual
speedway (motorcycling) event held each year in different countries. The first competition was held in 1968 and the final competition was held in 1993. From 1994 it was merged with the
World Team Cup
The World Team Cup was the international men's team championship of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The inaugural edition of the tournament was contested in 1975 in Kingston, Jamaica and was called the Nations Cup. No tournam ...
to create the
Speedway World Cup, which held its final edition in 2017.
The concept of an international pairs championship was reestablished in the form of the
Speedway of Nations
The Speedway of Nations is a speedway event for national teams, held each year in a different country. The first edition of the competition in the current format took place in 2018, replacing the Speedway World Cup on the international calendar. ...
, which was held for the first time in 2018.
Rules
The final was competed between seven national teams, and each national team was represented by two riders. Each pairing rode against each other once. The pair with the highest combined score were declared the Champions. From 1991, a third rider could act as reserve.
Winners
Medal classification
See also
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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 ...
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Speedway of Nations
The Speedway of Nations is a speedway event for national teams, held each year in a different country. The first edition of the competition in the current format took place in 2018, replacing the Speedway World Cup on the international calendar. ...
, the current incarnation of the World Pairs Championship
References
{{International speedway
Pairs
Recurring sporting events established in 1968
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1993