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Italy v Soviet Union

1965 An excellent find by David Austin, who has discovered brief details of this match on the website www.autosport.com . He says:
"At the end of August / September 1965 an automotorsport international took place between Italy and the USSR with three disciplines included - motocross, speedway and road-racing.
The scores from all three competitions were aggregated and the final score was Italy 127 USSR 97. Individually, the Soviets beat Italy 32-7 at motocross and the Italians won the road-racing, which was held at Monza on 19th September, 87-20. The speedway took place at Lonigo but the scores were not given. However, with the motocross and road-racing results known, the result must have been Italy 33 USSR 45. The Italian team is not given but the Soviet team was as follows:
Igor Plechhanov, Gab Kadirov, Yuri Chekranov, Gennady Kurilenko, Vladimir Sokolov, Viktor Trofimov, Valentin Moiseyev"
Needless to say, if anyone has any further details of this match, I - and David - would be pleased to hear about it!
Roger Stevens writes to say that an Italian friend was at this meeting, and that the speedway meeting took place over 2 days (Saturday and Sunday). It was at the old Lonigo "Hippodrome" track, the current track not having opened until the late 1970's.
Anselmo De Toni gives dates as Sat 11 & Sun 12.09.1965. He supplies the results of the individual contest (containing 6 Russian & 6 Italian riders) on each day, which were won by Igor Plechanov (Saturday) and Gennady Kurilenko (Sunday). The Russians, mounted on Eso's, easily dominated the Italians, who were riding JAPs. The Russian riders were as above, although Moiseyev didn't ride. The 6 Italians in the individual contests were Renzo Travagnini, Mario Rupil, Bon Giordano, Walter Fantuzzi, Carlo Mazzuccato, and Dante Zilli. The Russian riders outscored the Italians on both days by the same points total - 73 to 17. But there is no mention of a team contest.
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At Lonigo, left to right: Sokolov, Trofimov, and Plechanov (from "50years 1947-1997 Moto Club Lonigo")

1981 Russia won series 2-0
11.07 : Monticello di Fara (Sarego) Italy 41 Russia 66
12.07 : Piavon di Oderzo Italy 38 Russia 69

Italy Total Soviet Union Total {short description of image}
Armando dal Chiele 10 11 21 Pavel Beliajev 17 12 29
Fausto Birbini 8 8 16 Juri Pavluchenko 11 12 23
Francesco Biginato 9 - 9 Alexei Miklashevski 10 10 20
Guiseppe Marzotto 6 2 8 Nicolai Kornev 12 8 20
Giorgio Zaramella - 8 8 Anatoli Frolov - 17 17
Ottaviano Righetto - 8 8 Alexander Basmanov 12 5 17
Mauro Ferraccioli 4 - 4 Pavel Clinovski 4 5 9
Piermario Zanin 3 0 3
Francesco Barbetta - 1 1
Luigi Bazan 1 - 1

2nd Match at Piavon di Oderzo
Italy 38 Soviet Union 69 {short description of image}
Fausto Birbini 0 0 3 3 2 0 8 Nikolai Kornev 1 3 2' 0 1 1 8 + 1
Ottaviano Righetto 2 2 1 2' 0 1 8 + 1 Pavel Clinovski 3 2' - - - - 5 + 1
Giorgio Zaramella 1 2 1 0 2 2 8 Pavel Beliajev 3 3 1 2' 1 2 12 + 1
Piermario Zanin 0 - - - - - 0 Juri Pavluchenko 2' 1 3 3 3 nf 12 + 1
Armando dal Chiele 2 0 2 2 2 3 11 Alexander Basmanov 1 1 0 0 1 2' 5 + 1
Guiseppe Marzotto 0 1 0 1' 0 nf 2 + 1 Anatoli Frolov 3 3 2 3 3 3 17
Francesco Barbetta (res) 0 0 1 0 0 1 Alexei Miklashevski (res) 3 1 3 3 10
1 Clinovski, Righetto, Kornev, Birbini 2-4 2-4
2 Beliajev, Pavluchenko, Zaramella, Zanin 1-5 3-9
3 Frolov, dal Chiele, Basmanov, Marzotto 2-4 5-13
4 Beliajev, Righetto, Pavluchenko, Birbini 2-4 7-17
5 Frolov, Zaramella, Basmanov, Barbetta 2-4 9-21
6 Kornev, Clinovski, Marzotto, dal Chiele 1-5 10-26
7 Birbini, Frolov, Righetto, Basmanov 4-2 14-28
8 Miklashevski, Kornev, Zaramella, Barbetta 1-5 15-33
9 Pavluchenko, dal Chiele, Beliajev, Marzotto 2-4 17-37
10 Birbini, Righetto, Miklashevski, Kornev 5-1 22-38
11 Pavluchenko, Beliajev, Barbetta, Zaramella 1-5 23-43
12 Frolov, dal Chiele, Marzotto, Basmanov 3-3 26-46
13 Pavluchenko, Birbini, Beliajev, Righetto 2-4 28-50
14 Frolov, Zaramella, Basmanov, Barbetta 2-4 30-54
15 Miklashevski, dal Chiele, Kornev, Marzotto 2-4 32-58
16 Frolov, Basmanov, Righetto, Birbini 1-5 33-63
17 Miklashevski, Zaramella, Kornev, Barbetta 2-4 35-67
18 Chiele, Beliajev, Pavluchenko nf, Marzotto nf 3-2 38-69

1990 Italy won series 3-0
31.03 : Castelmassa Italy 63 Soviet Union 47
14.07 : Lonigo Italy 65 Soviet Union 43
15.07 : Udine Italy 71 Soviet Union 36
Italy Total Soviet Union Total
Armando dal Chiele 13 12 12 37 Rinat Mardanshin 4 10 9 23
Fabrizio Vesprini 9 17 9 35 Rif Saitgareev 18 - - 18
Armando Castagna 11 - 17 28 Andrej Korolev 4 11 1 16
Valentino Furlanetto - 14 14 28 Mariano Castagna* - - 13 13
Massimo Mora 7 3 12 22 Vladimir Trofimov - 3 10 13
Riccardo Salamon - 10 7 17 Viktor Gaigym - 11 0 11
Andrea Maida 4 9 - 13 Arkadi Kononiec 2 6 3 11
Gianni Famari 10 - - 10 Oleg Kurguskin 10 - - 10
Luca Ravagnani 9 - - 9 Grigori Harchenko 4 - - 4
Igor Dubinin 3 - - 3
Rene Aas 2 - - 2
Luca Taccini* - 2 - 2
* guest

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Contributors : Duncan Luke, Andy Reid, Kevin Twohigg, David Austin, Roger Stevens, Anselmo De Toni

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