1981 Speedway World Team Cup

Qualification stage 1

Commonwealth round

• 17 May
• ENG Smallmead Stadium, Reading
• Referee: SWE C. Ringstrom
• Att: 7,000

|Dave Jessup |3|2|3|2| |Gordon Kennett |1|2|2|1| |Chris Morton |2|2|2|3| |Michael Lee |3|2|3|3| |John Davis |Bruce Penhall |2|3|3|3| |Bobby Schwartz |3|1|1|3| |Dennis Sigalos |2||3.7i=F|1||3.14i=-| |Scott Autrey |2|3|1|2| |Kelly Moran |5.14p=2| |Phil Crump |0|3|0|1| |John Titman |1|1|2|2| |Danny Kennedy |0||3.6i=-||3.12i=-||3.14i=X| |Billy Sanders |3|3|1|0| |Gary Guglielmi |5.6p=1|5.12p=2| |Ivan Mauger |0|0|0||1.16i=-| |Mitch Shirra |1|1||2.11i=-|0| |Bruce Cribb |1|0|0||3.13i=-| |Larry Ross |0|0||4.9i=-|1| |Tony Briggs |5.9p=3|5.11p=0|5.13p=1|5.16p=0| *** England & USA to Intercontinental Final**

Scandinavian round

• 28 May
• FIN Eteläpuisto, Tampere

*** Denmark & Sweden to Intercontinental Final**

Continental round

• 17 May
• FRG Holsteinring, Brokstedt

|Egon Müller |3|3|3|3| |Georg Hack |2|3|3|3| |Alois Wiesböck |3|3|3|3| |Georg Gilgenreiner |3|0|3|2| |Waldemar Bacik |Henny Kroeze |2|3|2|2| |Frits Koppe |2|0||2.9i=-|2| |Rudi Muts |2|2|1|1| |Henk Steman |3|2|0|0| |Wil Stroes |5.9p=0| |Adi Funk |1|0|2|1| |Herbert Szerecs |1|1|2|1| |Walter Grubmuler |1|2|1|3| |Heinrich Schatzer |0|2|2|2| |Robert Funk |Nikolai Manev |1|1|0|0| |Orlin Janakiev |0|1|1|0| |Veselin Markov |0|0|0|0| |Angel Eftimov |0|1|1|1| |Zachari Zachariev *** West Germany & Netherlands to Continental Semi-Final**

• 17 May
• HUN Gázvezeték Street Sports Complex, Debrecen

|Mikhail Starostin |2|3|2|3| |Grigory Khlinovsky |2|2|3|3| |Valery Gordeev |3|2|2|2| |Viktor Kuznetsov |2|3|3|2| |Anatoly Maksimov |Zoltan Hajdu |2|3|2|2| |Istvan Sziraczki |3|2|3|2| |Zoltán Adorján |3|3|1|3| |Ferenc Farkash |1||4.5i=-|2||4.13i=-| |Janos Oresko |5.5p=2|5.13p=3| |Mauro Ferraccioli |1|0||1.10i=-|0| |Giuseppe Marzotto |3|1|0|1| |Armando Dal Chiele |1|1|1||3.14i=-| |Giovanni Brizzolari |1|1|0|1| |Gianni Famari |5.10p=1|5.14p=1| |Vlado Kocuvan |0|0|0|1| |Stefan Kekec |0|1|3|0| |Darko Tominac |0|0||3.10i=-|0| |Krešo Omerzel ||4.3i=-||4.8i=-|1|0| |Ladislav Smidt |5.3p=0|5.8p=0|5.10p=0| *** Soviet Union & Hungary to Continental Semi-Final**

Semifinal

• 28 June 28
• ITA Stadio Ottorino Verzaro, Badia Polesine

*** Soviet Union & West Germany to Continental Final**

Qualification stage 2

Continental Final

• 11 July
• USSR Leningrad Speedway Stadium, Leningrad

|Karl Maier |1|3|3|3| |Alois Wiesböck |1||2.7i=-||2.11i=-||2.15i=-| |Georg Hack |2|3|1|1| |Georg Gilgenreiner ||4.1i=-|0|3|0| |Egon Müller |5.1p=2|5.7p=3|5.11p=3|5.15p=3| |Grigory Khlinovsky |3|2|2|1| |Anatoly Maksimov |2|1||2.9i=-|2| |Viktor Kuznetsov |3|2|2|1| |Mikhail Starostin |3|1||4.12i=X|2| |Georgy Ivanov |5.9p=0| |Aleš Dryml Sr. |1|2|2|2| |Václav Verner |0||2.8i=X|3|1| |Milan Špinka |2||3.6i=F||3.12i=-||3.14i=-| |Zdeněk Kudrna |0||4.5i=-||4.11i=X||4.13i=-| |Jiří Štancl |5.5p=1|5.12p=2|5.13p=3|5.14p=2| |Edward Jancarz |1|2|1|0| |Zenon Plech ||2.2i=F|3||2.12i=F||2.15i=-| |Roman Jankowski |3||3.7i=F|0|3| |Jerzy Rembas ||4.3i=E||4.8i=T|1|0| |Marek Kepa |5.15p=0| *** West Germany & Soviet Union to World Final**

Intercontinental Final

• 28 July
• ENG Norfolk Arena, King's Lynn
• Referee: AUS Sam Bass

|Ole Olsen |0|3|3|3| |Tommy Knudsen |0|3|3|1| |Erik Gundersen |2|2|3|2| |Hans Nielsen |0|3|2|1| |Preben Eriksen |Michael Lee |3|2|2|2| |Chris Morton |3|1|3|2| |Steve Bastable ||3.2i=E|1||3.11i=-|3| |Dave Jessup |2|2|1|3| |Kenny Carter |5.11p=0| |Bruce Penhall |3|3|2|1| |Kelly Moran |3|0|2|0| |Bobby Schwartz |2|1|1|2| |Dennis Sigalos |2|2|1|1| |Scott Autrey |Anders Michanek |1|0||1.9i=-||1.16i=-| |Jan Andersson |1|0|0|3| |Richard Hellsen |1|0|0|0| |Tommy Nilsson |1|1|1|0| |Hans Danielsson |5.9p=0|5.16p=0|

*** Denmark & England to World Final**

World Final

• 16 August
• FRG Olching Speedwaybahn, Olching
• Referee: SWE C. Bergstrom

|Ole Olsen |2|1|3||1.16i=-| |Hans Nielsen |3|3|3|2| |Erik Gundersen |3|3|1|2| |Tommy Knudsen |2|3|2|2| |Finn Thomsen |5.16p=1| |Dave Jessup ||1.1i=E|1||1.11i=-|2| |Chris Morton |3|2|3|3| |Kenny Carter |3|2|1|3| |John Davis |1|2|2||4.13i=E| |Gordon Kennett |5.11p=1| |Karl Maier |2|1|2|3| |Georg Hack |1|2|1|1| |Georg Gilgenreiner |0|1|3|1| |Egon Müller |2|3|2|3| |Alois Wiesböck |Valery Gordeev |0|0|0|0| |Mikhail Starostin |0|0||2.11i=F||2.15i=-| |Viktor Kuznetsov |1|0|0|1| |Nikolay Kornev |1||4.5i=-||4.9i=-||4.15i=E| |Anatoly Maksimov |5.5p=0|5.9p=0|5.15p=0|

References

References

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