The Team Speedway Under-21 World Championship is a
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competition to determine the World Championship for national Under-21 teams. The sport's equivalent of the Under-21 World Cup in football, as of 2022 the title is awarded to the winners of SON2, the Under-21 division of the Speedway of Nations. The first edition of the competition was in 2005 prior to its incorporation with the Speedway of Nations.
Poland
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has dominated the competition winning the title record 15 times.
Previous winners
Classification
Rules
Eligibility
The minimum age limit (16 years) starts on the date of the rider's birthday and the maximum age limit (21 years) finishes at the end of the year in which they reach 21 years old.
Team composition
The 4 competing teams shall each consist of 5 riders; there shall be no substitute rider:
*Team A (Helmet colour Red): No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
*Team B (Blue): No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
*Team C (White): No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
*Team D (Yellow/Black): No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
When a team is 6 or more points in arrears of the leading team, the team manager may substitute a rider in the next or succeeding heats with another rider in his team, However, each rider may be used as a substitute once only. Substitutions must stop when the team is less than 6 points in arrears.
Prize
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Swiss franc
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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 World Cup
The Speedway World Cup is an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old World Team Cup which ran from 1960 until 2000. The last ed ...
References
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