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1985 Speedway World Team Cup
26th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition
26th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition
The 1985 Speedway World Team Cup was the 26th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.
The final took place at the Veterans Memorial Stadium (Long Beach), in California, United States. Denmark won their third consecutive title (and fifth in total) surpassing Poland's four titles and moving into third place in the all-time list.
Qualification stage 1
| Day | width=200px | Venue | width=160px | Winner | width=40px | stage 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 May | ENG Bradford | |||||||||
| 12 May | NOR Skien | |||||||||
| 12 May | ITA Civitanova | |||||||||
| 12 May | FRG Olching | |||||||||
| 22 May | POL Gorzów |
Commonwealth round
- 12 May 12, 1985
- ENG Odsal Stadium, Bradford
- Att: 8,000
- Ref: J M Price (GB)
*** 1st & 2nd to Intercontinental Final**
|Phil Collins |3|1|3|2| |Kenny Carter |2|3|3|3| |Jeremy Doncaster |3|2|3|3| |Kelvin Tatum |3|2|3|3| |Chris Morton |Phil Crump |3|3|2|0| |Steve Regeling |2||2.5i=E|2|1| |Steve Baker |1|2|1|2| |Rod Hunter |1|0||4.9i=-||4.13i=-| |Stan Bear |5.9i=E|5.13p=1 |Ivan Mauger |0|2|1|1| |Mitch Shirra ||2.3i=T|3|1|2| |Larry Ross |1|1|0|2| |Kym Mauger |0|1||4.9i=-||4.14i=-| |Alan Mason |5.9p=2|5.14p=0 |Kai Niemi |2|3|2|3| |Ari Koponen |2|0|1|0| |Olli Tyrväinen |0|1|0|1| |Juha Moksunen |1|0|0|0| |Aki Ala-Riihimaki
Scandinavian round
- 12 May 1985
- NOR Geiteryggen Speedwaybane, Skien
*** 1st & 2nd to Intercontinental Final**
| P1}} | 1st | P2}} | 2nd | P3}} | 3rd | 4th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p1}} | - 43 | |||||
| Erik Gundersen - 12 | ||||||
| Bo Petersen - 12 | ||||||
| Preben Eriksen - 11 | ||||||
| Jan O. Pedersen - 5 | ||||||
| Tommy Knudsen - 3 | p2}} | - 33 | ||||
| Jan Andersson - 10 | ||||||
| Tommy Nilsson - 8 | ||||||
| Per Jonsson - 6 | ||||||
| Jimmy Nilsen - 6 | ||||||
| Pierre Brannefors - 3 | p3}} | - 11 | ||||
| Frits Koppe - 5 | ||||||
| Henny Kroeze - 3 | ||||||
| Henk Steman - 3 | ||||||
| Leo Bathoorn - 0 | ||||||
| Wil Stroes - 0 | - 8 | |||||
| Dag Haaland - 3 | ||||||
| Einar Kyllingstad - 2 | ||||||
| Roy Otto - 2 | ||||||
| Ingvar Skogland - 1 | ||||||
| Arnt Førland - 0 |
Continental round
- 12 May 1985
- ITA San Savino Speedway Park, Civitanova Marche
*** 1st & 2nd to Continental Semi-Final**
| P1}} | 1st | P2}} | 2nd | P3}} | 3rd | 4th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p1}} | - 36 | |||||
| Václav Verner - 12 | ||||||
| Antonín Kasper Jr. - 10 | ||||||
| Aleš Dryml Sr. - 9 | ||||||
| Zdenek Schneiderwind - 5 | p2}} | - 35 | ||||
| Armando Castagna - 10 | ||||||
| Armando Dal Chiele - 9 | ||||||
| Ottaviano Righetto - 8 | ||||||
| Giorgio Zaramella - 8 | p3}} | - 24 | ||||
| Zoltán Adorján - 8 | ||||||
| Sándor Tihanyi - 6 | ||||||
| Zoltan Hajdu - 5 | ||||||
| Istvan Bodi - 4 | ||||||
| Zsolt Papp - 1 | - 1 | |||||
| Zvonko Pavlic - 1 | ||||||
| Zvone Gerjevic - 0 | ||||||
| Artur Horvat - 0 | ||||||
| Franc Zagar - 0 | ||||||
| Joze Zibert - 0 |
- 12 May 1985
- FRG Olching Speedwaybahn, Olching
- Att: 6,000
*** 1st & 2nd to Continental Semi-Final**
| P1}} | 1st | P2}} | 2nd | P3}} | 3rd | 4th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p1}} | - 46 | |||||
| Klaus Lausch - 12 | ||||||
| Karl Maier - 12 | ||||||
| Egon Müller - 8 | ||||||
| Peter Wurtele - 8 | ||||||
| Gerd Riss - 6 | p2}} | - 29 | ||||
| Maciej Jaworek - 8 | ||||||
| Wojciech Żabiałowicz - 8 | ||||||
| Andrzej Huszcza - 6 | ||||||
| Jerzy Rembas - 4 | ||||||
| Zenon Plech - 3 | p3}} | - 16 | ||||
| Heinrich Schatzer - 7 | ||||||
| Toni Pilotto - 6 | ||||||
| Siegfried Eder - 2 | ||||||
| Adi Funk - 1 | - 5 | |||||
| Nikolai Manev - 2 | ||||||
| Stanislav Tzankov - 2 | ||||||
| Vesselin Markov - 1 | ||||||
| Angel Eftimov - 0 | ||||||
| Orlin Janakiev - 0 |
Semifinal
- 22 May 1985
- POL Edward Jancarz Stadium, Gorzów
- Att: 18,000
*** 1st & 2nd to Continental Final**
|Jerzy Rembas |2||1.6i=-|1||1.16i=-| |Andrzej Huszcza |2|3|2|3| |Zenon Plech |2|1||3.10i=-||3.14i=-| |Grzegorz Dzikowski |1|2|2|3| |Piotr Pyszny |5.6p=2|5.10p=2|5.14p=3|5.16i=F |Antonín Kasper Jr. |3|3|3|3| |Václav Verner |2|0|3|1| |Lubomir Jedek |0||3.6i=-||3.10i=-||3.13i=-| |Aleš Dryml Sr. |0|2|1||4.14i=-| |Jiří Štancl |5.6p=1|5.10p=3|5.13p=2|5.14p=2 |Egon Muller |3||1.5i=E|1||1.16i=-| |Karl Maier |1|3|3||2.15i=E| |Klaus Lausch |3|1|0|1| |Peter Wurtele |3|3|0||4.13i=-| |Georg Hack |5.13p=0|5.16p=1 |Armando Castagna |1|2|0|2| |Armando Dal Chiele |1||2.8i=F||2.10i=-||2.15i=-| |Giorgio Zaramella |0|0|1||3.14i=E| |Ottaviano Righetto |0||4.5i=-|2|1| |Valentino Furlanetto |5.5p=1|5.10p=0|5.15p=2
Qualification stage 2
| Day | width=200px | Venue | width=160px | Winner | width=40px | Stage 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 June | DEN Vojens | |||||||||
| 7 July | FRG Neustadt |
Intercontinental Final
- 22 June 1985
- DEN Speedway Center, Vojens
- Att: 12,000
- Ref: Mel Price
*** Winner to Final; 2nd & 3rd to Continental Final**
|Bo Petersen |3|1|3||1.16i=X| |Preben Eriksen |2|2|2|1| |Tommy Knudsen |3|3|3|2| |Erik Gundersen |3|3|3|3| |John Jørgensen |Kelvin Tatum |2|3|2|2| |Chris Morton |2|3|1|2| |Jeremy Doncaster |3|2|1|3| |Kenny Carter ||4.4i=E|1|0||4.13i=-| |Phil Collins |5.13i=X |Jan Andersson |1|2|2|3| |Jimmy Nilsen |1|1|0||2.15i=-| |Tommy Nilsson |1|2|3|0| |Per Jonsson |0|1|0||4.13i=-| |Pierre Brannefors |5.13p=2|5.15p=0 |Phil Crump |1|0|1||1.16i=-| |Steve Regeling ||2.3i=F|0|2|3| |Steve Baker |0|0||3.10i=-|1| |Rod Hunter |2|0|0|1| |Stan Bear |5.10p=1|5.16p=1
Continental Final
- 7 July 1985
- FRG Anton Treffer Stadion, Neustadt
- Att: 8,000
*** 1st & 2nd to Final**
|Jan Andersson |1|3|3|3| |Tommy Nilsson |3|2|3|2| |Jimmy Nilsen |3|3|2|3| |Per Jonsson |1|3|3|2| |Pierre Brannefors |Phil Collins ||1.2i=-|2|2||1.16i=-| |Kenny Carter |2|2|3|3| |Jeremy Doncaster |3|2|2|2| |Kelvin Tatum ||4.4i=F|1||4.11i=-||4.13i=-| |Chris Morton |5.2i=F|5.11p=2|5.13p=3|5.16p=2 |Antonín Kasper Jr. |2|0|1|1| |Lubomir Jedek |2||2.6i=-|1|1| |Aleš Dryml Sr. ||3.2i=X|1|1|1| |Václav Verner |3|0|1||4.13i=-| |Jiří Štancl |5.6p=1|5.13p=1 |Zenon Plech |1||1.8i=-|0|0| |Wojciech Żabiałowicz |0|1|0||2.15i=-| |Grzegorz Dzikowski |2||3.6i=F|0|0| |Andrzej Huszcza |0|3|0|0| |Maciej Jaworek |5.8p=0|5.15p=0
World Final
- 10 August 1985
- USA Long Beach, Veterans Memorial Stadium
- Att: 18,000
|Bo Petersen ||1.1i=F||1.6i=-||1.11i=-||1.16i=-| |Tommy Knudsen |3|3|3|3| |Erik Gundersen |2|3|2|3| |Hans Nielsen |2|3|2|3| |Preben Eriksen |5.6p=2|5.11p=3|5.16p=0 |Shawn Moran |3|2|3|3| |Bobby Schwartz |3|3|3|2| |John Cook |1||3.8i=F||3.11i=-||3.14i=-| |Lance King |3|2|2|2| |Sam Ermolenko |5.11p=2|5.14p=1 |Jeremy Doncaster |2|1|1|2| |Phil Collins ||2.1i=T|1|1|0| |Kelvin Tatum |0|1|0|2| |Richard Knight |0||4.5i=-|1|1| |John Davis |5.5p=0 |Jan Andersson |1|2|1|1| |Jimmy Nilsen |1|0|0|1| |Per Jonsson |0|0||3.10i=-||3.13i=-| |Tommy Nilsson |2|1|0|0| |Pierre Brannefors |5.10i=X|5.13p=0
References
References
- Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. (1987). "The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results". Guinness Superlatives.
- "1985 WORLD TEAM CUP".
- "World Team Cup 1960-1990".
- "FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP/ SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS".
- "Speedway riders, history and results".
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