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1961		*WORLD TEAM CUP*		1963
		1962

Great Britain seeded to the Final

CENTRAL EUROPEAN ROUND (Winner to Final)					15.07 : Liberec, Czechoslovakia
	*Czechoslovakia*	46	Yugoslavia	25	Czechslovakia B*	21	Austria	4
	* Czechoslovakia B replaced West Germany, whose team was said to be too weak.

Liberec	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Total
13 Lubos Tomicek			3			3						2		3			11
14 Jaroslav Wolf		3					3		3							3	12
15 Bedrich Slany				3	3						3		3				12
16 Karel Prusa	3							2		3					3		11
N (no rider) †																	-
CZECHOSLOVAKIA	3	6	9	12	15	18	21	23	26	29	32	34	37	40	43	46	46
1 Valent Medved	2				2				1					2			7
2 Drago Perko		1				1				2			1				5
3 Drago Regvart			2				1				1				0		4
4 Franc Babic				1				3				3				2	9
N (no rider) †																	-
YUGOSLAVIA	2	3	5	6	8	9	10	13	14	16	17	20	21	23	23	25	25
9 Stanislav Svoboda		0						1			2			1			4
10 Frantisek Hubner			1		1					1						1	4
11 Pavel Mares	0						2					1	2				5
12 Zdenek Kovar				2		2			2						2		8
N (no rider) †																	-
CZECHOSLOVAKIA B	0	0	1	3	4	6	8	9	11	12	14	15	17	18	20	21	21
5 Josef Bossner		2			0							0			1		3
6 Johan Hartl	1					0					0					0	1
7 Helmut Happer				0			0			0				0			0
8 Kurt Schwingenschlogl			0					0	0				0				0
N (no rider) †																	-
AUSTRIA	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4
Time	75.6		73.1				71.7							73.6

SCANDINAVIAN ROUND (Winner to Final)					23.04 : Vetlanda, Sweden (Att: 5,000)
	*Sweden*	41	Norway	24	Denmark	17	Finland	14

Vetlanda	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Total
Joel Jansson	1						3					2	0				6
Ove Fundin		3						3			3			3			12
Rune Sormander			3		3					3						3	12
Leif Larsson				3		3			2						3		11
G Johansson †																	-
SWEDEN	1	4	7	10	13	16	19	22	24	27	30	32	32	35	38	41	41
Aage Hansen	3				1				3					2			9
Sverre Harrfeldt		1				2				2			3				8
Egil Bratvold			0				2				2				1		5
Cato Agnor				1				0				0				1	2
Per Aulie †																	-
NORWAY	3	4	4	5	6	8	10	10	13	15	17	17	20	22	23	24	24
Einar Hansen	2					0					1					0	3
Kurt W Pedersen		2			2							3			2		9
Svend Nissen			1					2	1				1				5
John S Andersen				0			0			0				0			0
Bent Jensen †																	-
DENMARK	2	4	5	5	7	7	7	9	10	10	11	14	15	15	17	17	17
Ilkka Helminen	0							-		-					-		0
Aanti Pajari		0					1		0							2	3
Timo Laine			2			1						1		1			5
Kalevi Lahtinen				2	0						0		2				4
Esko Koponen †								1		1					0		2
FINLAND	0	0	2	4	4	5	6	7	7	8	8	9	11	12	12	14	14


Liberec	Two different colour versions of the Vetlanda programme ...

EAST EUROPEAN ROUND (Winner to Final)					15.07 : Rzeszow, Poland (Att: 25,000)
	*Poland*	43	Soviet Union	33	Bulgaria	13	East Germany	7

Rzeszow	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Total
1 Florian Kapala	3				3				3					3			12
2 Marian Kaiser		3				3				3			3				12
3 Henryk Zyto			3				3				1				ef		7
4 Stefan Kepa				3				3				3				3	12
17 Joachim Maj †																	-
POLAND	3	6	9	12	15	18	21	24	27	30	31	34	37	40	40	43	43
13 Igor Plechanov			-			-						-		-			-
14 Boris Samorodov		2					2		2							2	8
15 Farid Szajnurov				2	2						3		2				9
16 Leonid Drobiasko	2							2		2					3		9
20 Vladimir Sokolov †			2			2						2		1			7
SOVIET UNION	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20	23	25	27	28	31	33	33
5 Milko Pejkov		1						1			2			2			6
6 Boris Damjanov			1		0					1						0	2
7 Dimitri Bajev	0						1					1	1				3
8 Krasimir Sokolov				0		ex			0						2		2
18 Simeon Lukanov †																	-
BULGARIA	0	1	2	2	2	2	3	4	4	5	7	8	9	11	13	13	13
9 Günther Schelenz		0			1							0			1		2
10 Josef Kohl	1					1					0					1	3
11 Jürgen Hehlert				1			0			0				0			1
12 Wolfgang Günther			0					-	1				ef				1
19 Werner Frenzel †								0									0
EAST GERMANY	1	1	1	2	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	7	7
Time	78.6	76.4	79.2	76.8	76.2	77.6	78.9	76.4	76.8	78.2	79.2	77.4	79.4	?	79.8	79.8

FINAL					29.07 : Slany, Czechoslovakia (Att: 50,000)
	*Sweden*	36	Great Britain*	24	Poland	20	Czechoslovakia	16
	* Contemporary press reports referred to this team as British Commonwealth

Slany	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Total
Ove Fundin	0							3		3					3		9
Gote Nordin		0					1		3							-	4
Soren Sjosten			3			3						3		1			10
Bjorn Knutsson				3	2						3		2				10
Rune Sormander †																3	3
SWEDEN	0	0	3	6	8	11	12	15	18	21	24	27	29	30	33	36	36
Ronnie Moore	3						3					1	3				10
Peter Craven		1						1			2			2			6
Ron How			0		0					0						-	0
Barry Briggs				2		2			2						2		8
Cyril Maidment †																0	0
GREAT BRITAIN	3	4	4	6	6	8	11	12	14	14	16	17	20	22	24	24	24
Marian Kaiser	2				3				1					3			9
Florian Kapala		2				1				2			0				5
Pawel Waloszek			2				f				-				f		2
Joachim Maj				1				2				0				1	4
Mieczyslaw Polukard †											0						0
POLAND	2	4	6	7	10	11	11	13	14	16	16	16	16	19	19	20	20
Bedrich Slany	1					0					1					2	4
Lubos Tomicek		3			1							2			1		7
Karel Prusa			1					0	-				1				2
Jaroslav Volf				0			2			1				0			3
Bohumil Bartonek †									0								0
CZECHOSLOVAKIA	1	4	5	5	6	6	8	8	8	9	10	12	13	13	14	16	16
Time	75.0	76.0	76.8	74.8	75.8	77.0	76.0	76.4	77.0	75.8	75.6	76.4	75.8	77.0	76.2	77.4


Rzeszow	Slany

† reserve
Contributors : Christian Weber, Roger Stevens, Stanislaw Szczucinski, Jonas Holmqvist, Robert Rudiak, Sebastian Sojka, Slawomir Siekierka, Harry Susemihl

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© Brian Collins