The 1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the third official FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship.[1][2][3] The final took place in Borås, Sweden.

The championship was won by England (24 points) who beat New Zealand after Run-Off (24 points also) and Sweden B (22 points) who beat Sweden A after a run-off.[4][5]

Semifinal 1

Pos. Team Rider Points
1st  New Zealand (27 pts) Ivan Mauger 15
Ronnie Moore 12
2nd  England (25 pts) Ray Wilson 14
Terry Betts 11
3rd  Sweden (22 pts) Anders Michanek 11
Bengt Jansson 11
4  Scotland (15 pts) Jim McMillan 9
George Hunter 6
5  Australia (14 pts) Geoff Curtis 7
Garry Middleton 7
6  Denmark (9 pts) Ole Olsen 7
Paul Rosenkilde 2
7  Norway (9 pts) Øyvind S. Berg 6
Reidar Eide 3

Semifinal 2

Pos. Team Rider Points
1st  Poland (? pts) Zbigniew Marcinkowski ?
Wiktor Jastrzębski ?
2nd  Hungary (? pts) ? ?
? ?
3rd  Czechoslovakia (21 pts) Petr Ondrasik 11
Jan Verner 10
4 ? (? pts) ? ?
? ?
5 ? (? pts) ? ?
? ?
6 ? (? pts) ? ?
? ?
7 ? (? pts) ? ?
? ?

World final

Placing Pair / Rider Name Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
1  England 24 6 14 24
(11) Ray Wilson 15+3 3 1 3 3 2 3
(12) Terry Betts 9 2 0 1 1 3 2*
2  New Zealand 24 8 16 24
(13) Ivan Mauger 14+F 2 2 3 1 3 3
(14) Ronnie Moore 10 1 3 2 2 0 2
3  Sweden B 22 8 16 22
(7) Bernt Persson 13+3 2 3 3 3 2 0
(8) Hasse Holmqvist 9 1 2 2 0 3 1
4  Sweden A 22 8 14 22
(5) Anders Michanek 15+2 3 3 3 2 1 3
(6) Bengt Jansson 7 0 2 1 0 2 2
5  Poland 15 6 10 15
(1) Zbigniew Marcinkowski 13 3 3 2 2 3 F
(2) Wiktor Jastrzębski 2 0 0 0 X 2 X
6  Czechoslovakia 12 4 10 12
(3) Jan Holub I 5 1 0 1 3 0 0
(4) Jiri Stancl 7 2 1 0 2 1 1
7  Hungary 6 2 4 6
(9) Ferenc Radacsi 6 1 1 1 1 1 1
(10) Pal Perenyi 0 0 0 0 0 0 X
Placing Pair / Rider Name Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell
ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

See also

References

  1. ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 99. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
  2. ^ "World Pairs Championship 1968-1993". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  3. ^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
  4. ^ "Zapomniane turnieje: Mistrzostwa Świata Par (część 1)" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  5. ^ "The World Pairs Final 1972". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  6. ^ "World Pairs reduced to farce". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 12 May 1972. Retrieved 19 December 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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