Speedway World Championship Competitions

There are annual world championship events in the sport of motorcycle speedway for individual riders - the Speedway Grand Prix - and for national teams - the Speedway World Cup. Each has a counterpart for riders under 21: the Speedway World Under 21 Championship and the Team Speedway Junior World Championship. A pairs event, the Speedway World Pairs Championship, ran until 1993.

In addition there are two Ice Speedway World Championships for individuals and teams.[1] [2] The first Ice World Championships were held in 1966.[3]

Another form of speedway on larger tracks takes place called Longtrack and there is a World Championship called the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship. Since 1998 it has been a combination of grasstrack and longtrack[4]


Competing
entities		Competition nameFirst
held		Current holderNextHeld every
Individuals Unofficial Speedway World Championships (1931–1935)

Official Speedway World Championship (1936–1994)
Speedway Grand Prix (since 1995)

1931 Australia Jason Doyle (2017) 2018 One year
Individual Speedway World Under 21 Championship 1977 Poland Maksym Drabik (2017) 2018 One year
National Pairs Speedway World Pairs Championship 1970  Sweden (1993) Defunct One year until 1993
National Teams: Speedway World Team Cup (1960–2000)
Speedway World Cup (since 2001) 		1960  Poland (2017) 2018 One year
Team Speedway Junior World Championship 2005  Poland (2017) 2018 One year
Individuals: Individual Ice Speedway World Championship 1966 Russia Dmitry Koltakov (2017) 2018 One year
Team Ice Racing World Championship 1979 Russia Igor Kononov, Dmitry Khomitsevich, Dmitry Koltakov (2017) 2018 One year
Individuals: Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship 1971 France Mathieu Trésarrieu (2017) 2018 One year

References
  1. "Ice Speedway World Championship Past Winners". Ice Speedway.co.uk.
  2. "World Ice Racing Championships". Edinburgh Speedway.
  3. "HISTORY OF ICE RACING". FIM.
  4. "World Longtrack 2016 Overall Standings". GrasstrackGB.


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