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| 1978 | WORLD TEAM CUP | 1980 | ||
| 1979 |
| ROUND A (1st & 2nd to Intercontinental Final) Ref : Mr C Bergstrom (Swe) | 20.05 : Reading (Smallmead), England | |||||||
| New Zealand | 30 | USA | 26 | England | 22 | Australia | 18 | |
| Team Manager : Trevor Redmond | Team Manager : John Scott | Team Manager : John Berry | Team Manager : Peter Moore | |||||
| Reading | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Total |
| 13.Ivan Mauger © | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 14.Larry Ross | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 15.Mitch Shirra | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 16.Bruce Cribb | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 20.Roger Abel † | - | ||||||||||||||||
| NEW ZEALAND | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 30 |
| 9.Bruce Penhall © | 2 | 3 | 0 | f | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 10.Kelly Moran | 3 | nf | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 11.Bobby Schwartz | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 12.Steve Gresham | 3 | f | ex-t | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 19.Dennis Sigalos † | - | ||||||||||||||||
| USA | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 26 |
| 5.Malcolm Simmons © | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6.Gordon Kennett | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 7.Peter Collins | 2 | 1 | 2 | f | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 8.Michael Lee | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 18.Dave Jessup † | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ENGLAND | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 22 |
| 1.Phil Crump © | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 2.Billy Sanders | nf | 3 | f | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3.Phil Herne | 0 | 2 | - | - | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 4.John Titman | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 17.John Boulger † | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| AUSTRALIA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 18 |
| Time | 64.7 | 65.1 | 64.5 | 66.2 | 65.7 | 66.6 | 64.6 | 66.1 | 66.1 | 66.5 | 66.2 | 67.0 | 66.7 | 66.2 | 66.4 | 68.0 | |
| ROUND B (1st & 2nd to Intercontinental Final) | 20.05 : Tampere, Finland | |||||||
| Denmark | 39 | Sweden | 32 | Finland | 16 | Norway | 9 | |
| Hans Nielsen | 12 | Anders Michanek | 10 | Kai Niemi | 7 | Tormod Langli | 6 | |
| Ole Olsen | 11 | Bernt Persson | 9 | Pekka Hautamaki † | 4 | Reidar Eide | 1 | |
| Mike Lohmann | 10 | Jan Andersson | 8 | Ari Koponen | 3 | Tom Godal | 1 | |
| Bo Petersen | 4 | Tommy Nilsson † | 3 | Olli Turkia | 2 | Rolf Gramstad | 1 | |
| Erik Gundersen † | 2 | Stefan Salomonsson | 2 | Ila Teromaa | 0 | Toralf Holen † | 0 | |
| ROUND C (1st & 2nd to Continental Semi-Final) | 20.05 : Kempten, West Germany | |||||||
| Austria | 32 | Holland | 30 | West Germany | 29 | Yugoslavia | 5 | |
| Herbert Szerecs | 10 | Frits Koppe | 9 | Waldemar Bacik | 9 | Frank Hagar | 2 | |
| Walter Grubmüller | 9 | Henny Kroeze | 8 | Georg Hack | 9 | Ivan Vobujak | 2 | |
| Adi Funk | 7 | Rudi Muts | 5 | Karl Maier | 8 | Vlado Kocuvan | 1 | |
| Hubert Fischbacher | 5 | Frits Koning † | 4 | Georg Gilgenreiner | 2 | Manfred Kosmut † | 0 | |
| Gunther Walla † | 1 | Henk Steman | 4 | Wolfgang Mayr † | 1 | Jozef Mavsar | 0 | |
| ROUND D (1st & 2nd to Continental Semi-Final) | 20.05 : Miskolc, Hungary | |||||||
| Soviet Union | 34 | Hungary | 28 | Italy | 25 | Bulgaria | 9 | |
| Mikhail Starostin | 11 | Laszlo Meszaros | 9 | Guiseppe Marzotto | 9 | Atanasz Janakiev | 3 | |
| Valeri Gordeev | 9 | Istvan Sziraczki | 9 | Paulo Noro | 7 | Orlin Janakiev | 3 | |
| Grigori Khlinovsky | 7 | Janos Szoeke | 9 | Mauro Ferracciolo | 5 | Nikolai Manev | 2 | |
| Sergei Denisov | 6 | Tibor Danka † | 1 | Francesco Biginato | 4 | Deter Kostov | 1 | |
| Vladimir Klytchov | 1 | Antal Tamcsu | 0 | (no reserve) † | - | Angel Eftimov † | 0 | |
| CONTINENTAL SEMI-FINAL (1st & 2nd to Continental Final) | 15.07 : Pardubice, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||
| Soviet Union | 45 | Hungary | 21 | Holland | 16 | Austria | 14 | ||
| Valeri Gordeev | 12 | Laszlo Meszaros | 7 | Rudi Muts † | 6 | Hubert Fischbacher | 4 | ||
| Grigori Khlinovsky | 12 | Istvan Sziraczki | 6 | Henk Steman | 5 | Adi Funk | 4 | ||
| Mikhail Starostin | 12 | Janos Szoeke | 5 | Frits Koppe | 3 | Herbert Szerecs | 3 | ||
| Viktor Kuznetsov | 9 | Janos Jacob | 2 | Frits Koning | 2 | Walter Grubmüller | 2 | ||
| (no rider) † | - | Antal Tamcsu † | 1 | Piet Seur | 0 | Siegfried Eder † | 1 | ||
| CONTINENTAL FINAL (1st & 2nd to Final) | 29.07 : Wroclaw, Poland (Att: 35,000) | |||||||
| Poland | 40 | Czechoslovakia | 28 | Soviet Union | 27 | Hungary | 1 | |
| Wroclaw | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Total |
| Edward Jancarz | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Robert Slabon | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Zenon Plech | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Jerzy Rembas | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Andrzej Huszcza † | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| POLAND | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 29 | 30 | 33 | 34 | 37 | 39 | 40 | 40 |
| Jiri Stancl | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Petr Ondrasik | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Zdenek Kudrna | f | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Ales Dryml | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Vaclav Verner † | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| CZECHOSLOVAKIA | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 28 | 28 |
| Valeri Gordeev | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Mikhail Starostin | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Viktor Kuznetsov | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Grigori Khlinovsky | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Nikolai Kornev † | - | ||||||||||||||||
| SOVIET UNION | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 27 |
| Laszlo Juhasz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Zoltan Adorjan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Ferenc Farkas | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Zoltan Hajdu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Csaba Nagy † | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| HUNGARY | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| INTERCONTINENTAL FINAL (1st & 2nd to Final) | 14.06 : Eskilstuna, Sweden (Att: 4,358) | |||||||
| New Zealand | 29 | Denmark | 27 | USA | 22 | Sweden | 18 | |
| Eskilstuna | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Total |
| Ivan Mauger | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| Larry Ross | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Mitch Shirra | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Bruce Cribb | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Roger Abel † | - | ||||||||||||||||
| NEW ZEALAND | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 29 | 29 |
| Ole Olsen | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Mike Lohmann | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Hans Nielsen | 0 | 2 | ex-t | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Bo Petersen | 0 | 1 | - | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Bent Rasmussen † | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| DENMARK | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 27 |
| Kelly Moran | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Bruce Penhall | 2 | ex-t | 3 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Bobby Schwartz | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Steve Gresham | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Ron Preston † | - | ||||||||||||||||
| USA | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
| Richard Hellsen | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Anders Michanek | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Jan Andersson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Bernt Persson | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Bo Wirebrand † | - | ||||||||||||||||
| SWEDEN | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18 |
| Time | 65.8* | 66.0 | 67.1 | 66.5 | 66.7 | 66.0 | 66.0 | 67.2 | 66.4 | 66.6 | 66.9 | 66.8 | 67.1 | 67.6 | 68.2 | 67.0 | |
| FINAL | 16.09 : White City, London, England. | Ref : Gunther Sorber (W Ger) | ||||||
| New Zealand | 35 | Denmark | 31 | Czechoslovakia | 19 | Poland | 11 | |
| Team Manager: Trevor Redmond | Team Manager: Oluf Pedersen | Team Manager : Miroslav Verner | Team Manager: Bronislaw Ratejczyk | |||||
| White City London | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Total |
| 9. Ivan Mauger | 3 | 3 | 3 | f,ex | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 10. Larry Ross | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 11. Mitch Shirra | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 12. Bruce Cribb | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 19. Roger Abel † | - | ||||||||||||||||
| NEW ZEALAND | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 27 | 29 | 32 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| 13. Ole Olsen | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| 14. Hans Nielsen | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 15. Mike Lohmann | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 16. Finn Thomsen | 1 | 0 | - | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 20. Bo Petersen † | f,ex | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| DENMARK | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 31 | 31 |
| 1. Jiri Stancl | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 2. Zdenek Kudrna | ex | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 3. Ales Dryml | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 4. Vaclav Verner | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 17. Petr Ondrasik † | - | ||||||||||||||||
| CZECHOSLOVAKIA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 19 |
| 5. Piotr Pyszny | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 6. Zenon Plech | ef | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 7. Robert Slabon | 2 | f | f | - | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 8. Marek Cieslak | 1 | ef | - | f | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 18. Andrzej Tkocz † | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| POLAND | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 11 |
| Time | 71.0 | 71.4 | 72.1 | 71.2 | 71.4 | 71.1 | 71.9 | 71.5 | 71.6 | 71.6 | 71.7 | 72.0 | 71.6 | 72.2 | 71.9 | 71.9 | |
| Victor Ludorum Ht 1 Stancl, Dryml, Kudrna, V. Verner 72.5 Ht 2 Plech, Tkocz, Pyszny fall, Cieslak ns 73.9 |
Ht 3 Ross, Shirra, Abel,
Cribb f/ex, Mauger ns 72.7. Ht 4 Thomsen, Olsen, Nielsen, Lohmann 72.1. Final: Plech, Ross, Thomsen, Stancl 72.0 |
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| © captain ; † reserve ; * track record |
| Contributors : Robert Rudiak, Jonas Holmqvist, David Austin, Tracy Holmes, Robert Browne |
| 1978 | 1980 |
© Brian Collins