The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual
motorcycle speedway
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event held each year organized by the
International Motorcycling Federation
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(FIM) between 1986 and 1993.
This competition featured the national champions of the top sixteen countries. It was held to give smaller speedway nations their own "World Final", but was scrapped with the introduction of the
Speedway Grand Prix
Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The series started in 1995 replacing the previous format of a single event final. The first win ...
in 1995.
Previous winners
See also
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track racing
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The most common variant is Speedway which ha ...
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Individual Speedway European Championship
The Individual Speedway European Championship is an annual individual speedway event organized by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) to determine the champion of Europe. The competition was founded in 2001 and was initially staged as a one-off m ...
References
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European Speedway Championships