Speedway World Pairs Championship


The Speedway World Pairs Championship was an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The first competition was held in 1968 and the final competition was held in 1993. From 1994 it was merged with the World Team Cup to create the Speedway World Cup, which held its final edition in 2017.
The concept of an international pairs championship was reestablished in the form of the Speedway of Nations, which was held for the first time in 2018.

Rules

The final was competed between seven national teams, and each national team was represented by two riders. Each pairing rode against each other once. The pair with the highest combined score were declared the Champions. From 1991, a third rider could act as reserve.
The 1968 and 1969 events, were not considered to be official championship meetings, even though medals were given out in the 1969 event.
1968
1st Sweden 24 pts
2nd Great Britain 21 pts
3rd Norway 16 pts
West Germany 12 pts
West Germany 10 pts
Denmark 6 pts
1969
1st New Zealand 28 pts
2nd Sweden 27 pts
3rd England 21 pts
Denmark 17 pts
Czechoslovakia 15 pts
East Germany 9 pts
Bulgaria 8 pts
The 1971 Final won by Poles Jerzy Szczakiel and Andrzej Wyglenda and 1982 Final won by Americans Bobby Schwartz and Dennis Sigalos were the only World Pairs Finals that were won with the maximum possible score.

Winners

YearVenueWinnersRunner-up3rd place
1968 Kempten
1969 Stockholm
YearVenueWinnersRunner-up3rd place
1970 Malmö
1971 Rybnik
1972 Borås
1973 Borås
1974 Manchester
1975 Wrocław
1976 Eskilstuna
1977 Manchester
1978 Chorzów
1979 Vojens
1980 Krško
YearVenueWinnersRunner-up3rd place
1981 Chorzów
1982 Sydney
1983 Gothenburg
1984 Lonigo
1985 Rybnik
1986 Pocking
1987 Pardubice
1988 Bradford
1989 Leszno
1990 Landshut
YearVenueWinnersRunner-up3rd place
1991 Poznań
1992 Lonigo
1993 Vojens
YearVenueWinnersRunner-up3rd place

Medal classification

PosNational TeamTotal
1.17836
2./17773
3.14554
4.8323
5.8242
6.6123
7.3-3-
8.2--2
=9.1--1
=9.1--1

PosRiderTeamTotal
1.Hans Nielsen11713
2.Erik Gundersen7511
3.Peter Collins541
4.Anders Michanek5311
5.Malcolm Simmons431
6.Ivan Mauger8242
7.Tommy Jansson321
8.Bobby Schwartz321
9.Jan O. Pedersen22
10.Ole Olsen7124