The 1966 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship was the first edition of the World Championship.[1][2]

The winner was Gabdrakhman Kadyrov of the Soviet Union. Kadyrov had previously won the 1964 European Ice Speedway Championship, the predecessor to this competition.[3][4]

Final

Pos. Rider Points
1 Soviet Union Gabdrakhman Kadyrov 43
2 Soviet Union Viktor Kuznetsov 39
3 Czechoslovakia Antonín Šváb Sr. 39
4 Soviet Union Yuri Chekranov 35
5 Soviet Union Boris Samorodov 35
6 Soviet Union Yury Dudorin 34
7 Czechoslovakia Antonín Kasper Sr. 30
8 Czechoslovakia Stanislav Kubíček 27
9 Sweden Kurt Westlund 23
10 East Germany Peter Liebing 21
11 Finland Jukko Naskali 18
12 Austria Helmut Walch 14
13 West Germany Peter Knott 10
14 Poland Mieczysław Połukard 9
15 Sweden Leif Enecrona 7
16 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Drasko Perko 6
R Finland Matti Koivula 6

References

  1. ^ "World Ice Racing Championships". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Ice Speedway". Speedway.org. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  3. ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 99. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
  4. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. pp. 290–291. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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