1970 Individual Speedway World Championship

The 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 25th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Ivan Mauger became the first rider to win the title in three consecutive years, his five ride 15 point maximum took him to third in the all-time list behind Ove Fundin and Barry Briggs. The Poles Paweł Waloszek and Antoni Woryna took silver and bronze respectively in their home nation at the Olympic Stadium.^[7]

Format changes

The format of the Championship changed again for the 1970 event. This time the Polish riders were allowed six places in the World Final to be held in Poland. All other nations had to go through the European Final route to provide the remaining 10 riders for the World Final.

First round

Qualification results.^[8]^[9]

Swedish qualifying

Top 8 in each heat to Swedish semi-finals

26 April, Gamla Motorstadion, Målilla
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Bengt Jansson	15
2	Conny Samuelsson	12
3	Therje Henriksson	11
4	Tommy Johansson	10
5	Lennart Michanek	10
6	Åke Andersson	10
7	Bengt Brannefors	9
8	Bengt Svensson	8
9	Hasse Holmqvist	7
10	Per-Åke Gerhardsson	6
11	Inge Gustafsson	5
12	Lars-Åke Andersson	5
13	Anders Jansson	3
14	Yngve Nilsson	3
15	Kenneth Selmosson	3
16	Börje Olsson	1

1 May, Gamla Speedway Track, Visby
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Leif Enecrona	14
2	Göte Nordin	14
3	Olle Nygren	13
4	Christer Löfqvist	12
5	Lars Jansson	10
6	Tommy Bergqvist	9
7	Bo Magnusson	9
8	Rolf Johansson	7
9	Hans Hallberg	6
10	Dirk van der Voet	6
11	Benny Lundström	5
12	Håkan Karlsson	4
13	Torbjörn Karlsson	3
14	Börje Melin	3
15	Sune Stark	3
16	Roger Gullbrandsgård	2

3 May, Vetlanda Motorstadion, Vetlanda
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Anders Michanek	15
2	Bo Josefsson	14
3	Sven-Inge Svensson	12
4	Sven Sigurd	10
5	Bengt Larsson	10
6	Bengt Andersson	9
7	Karl-Erik Claesson	9
8	Leif Johansson	8
9	Gunnar Malmqvist	8
10	Sigvard Johansson	7
11	Egon Stengarn	5
12	Per Sjöholm	3
13	Nils Ringström	3
14	Curt Nyqvist	3
15	Sonny Widergren	2
16	Torbjörn Runesson	1
17	Lars-Göran Däldebring	0

22 May, Ryd Motorstadion, Linköping
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Sören Sjösten	15
2	Bernt Persson	14
3	Ove Fundin	13
4	Per-Olof Söderman	12
5	Jan Simensen	10
6	Hans Johansson	9
7	Runo Wedin	9
8	Käll Haage	8
9	Göran Jansson	8
10	Anders Jansson	8
11	Leif Söderberg	5
12	Lars Jennefors	4
13	Lars Åhnström	1
14	Benny Ekberg	1
15	Olle Åhnström	0

British/Commonwealth qualifying

Top 32 to British semi-finals

Date	Venue	Winner	2nd	3rd
25 April	Brandon Stadium, Coventry	Nigel Boocock	Bruce Cribb	Peter Vandenberg
25 April	King's Lynn Stadium, King's Lynn	Ronnie Moore	Wayne Briggs	Terry Betts
25 April	Hyde Road, Manchester	Chris Pusey	Tommy Roper	Cyril Maidment
27 April	Brough Park, Newcastle	Barry Briggs	Jim Airey	Rick Timmo
27 April	County Ground Stadium, Exeter	Ivan Mauger	Bob Kilby	Martin Ashby
28 April	West Ham Stadium, London	Ivan Mauger	Bob Kilby	Charlie Monk
28 April	Leicester Stadium, Leicester	Ray Wilson	John Boulger	Graham Plant
29 April	Wimborne Road, Poole	Trevor Hedge	Pete Smith	Gordon Guasco
30 April	Wimbledon Stadium, London	Eric Boocock	Ronnie Moore	Trevor Hedge
30 April	Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield	Jim Airey	Les Sharpe	Nigel Boocock
30 April	Oxford Stadium, Oxford	Jim McMillan	John Boulger	Tony Clarke
1 May	Monmore Green, Wolverhampton	Nigel Boocock	Martin Ashby	Norman Hunter
1 May	Hackney Wick Stadium, London	Barry Briggs	Ronnie Moore	Jimmy Gooch
1 May	Hampden Park, Glasgow	Charlie Monk	Colin McKee	Jim McMillan
1 May	Somerton Park, Newport	Bill Andrew	Norman Strachan	Jim Airey
2 May	Abbey Stadium, Swindon	Barry Briggs	Bob Kilby	Ray Wilson
2 May	The Shay, Halifax	Arnold Haley	Les Sharpe	Eric Boocock
2 May	Dudley Wood Stadium, Dudley	Colin Pratt	Bob Andrews	Jack Biggs
13 May	Brandon Stadium, Coventry	Nigel Boocock	Ken McKinlay	Rick France

Second round

Norwegian qualifying

15 October 1969
Krohnsminde Stadion, Bergen
Top 2 (+2 seeded) to Nordic final 1970

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Reidar Eide	15
2	Oyvind S. Berg	14
3	Edgar Stangeland	12
4	Per Aulie	12
5	Dag Lövaas	11
6	Einar Egedius	8
7	Nils Otto Haraldsen	7
8	Jon Hovind	7
9	Hans Olav Schia	6
10	Kjell Ttomas Skjäveland	5

Finnish qualifying (top 7)

(2 rounds) 1 Aug & ?? 1969
Eteläpuisto, Tampere & Kärpänen Speedway, Lahti
First to Nordic final 1970

Pos.	Rider	Points	Total
1	Kalevi Lahtinen	8+8	16
2	Matti Olin	6+6	12
3	Timo Laine	4+1	5
4	Jorma Taipale	0+4	4
5	Olavi Turunen	1+3	4
6	Reima Lohkovuori	2+2	4
7	Jouko Naskali	3+0	3

Swedish semi-finals

25 May, Ryavallen, Borås
Top 4 to Nordic final

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Sören Sjösten	14
2	Anders Michanek	14
3	Olle Nygren	14
4	Bengt Larsson	12
5	Per-Olof Söderman	10
6	Käll Haage	10
7	Lars Jansson	10
8	Leif Enecrona	9
9	Conny Samuelsson	9
10	Sven-Inge Svensson	5
11	Karl-Erik Claesson	5
12	Rolf Johansson	4
13	Sigvard Johansson	4
14	Hans Johansson	3
15	Åke Andersson	1
16	Bo Magnusson	0
17	Egon Stengarn (res)	0

28 May, Ullevi, Gothenburg
Top 4 to Nordic final

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Ove Fundin	14
2	Göte Nordin	14
3	Bengt Brannefors	13
4	Bengt Jansson	12
5	Bo Josefsson	10
6	Therje Henriksson	9
7	Bernt Persson	9
8	Jan Simensen	9
9	Bengt Svensson	6
10	Christer Löfqvist	6
11	Tommy Bergqvist	5
12	Runo Wedin	5
13	Sven Sigurd	3
14	Tommy Johansson	3
15	Per-Åke Gerhardsson (res)	2
16	Lennart Michanek	1
17	Bengt Andersson	1

Continental qualifying

Top 32 to Continental semi-finals

Date	Venue	Winner	2nd	3rd
9 May	Meissen Speedway Stadium, Meissen	Jan Holub I	Valery Gordeev	Peter Liebing
10 May	Borsod Volán Stadion, Miskolc	Václav Verner	Jaroslav Volf	Viktor Trofimov
10 May	Liebenauer Stadium, Graz	Vladimir Gordeev	Zdenek Majstr	Jochen Dinse
10 May	Igralište na Kajzerici, Zagreb	Pavel Mares	Boris Cehanovich	Jürgen Hehlert

British/Commonwealth semi-finals

19 May
Leicester Stadium, Leicester
Top 8 to British/Commonwealth final

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Ivan Mauger	15
2	Ronnie Moore	14
3	Howard Cole	12
4	Nigel Boocock	10
5	Trevor Hedge	10
6	Terry Betts	10
7	Jim Airey	9
8	Arnie Haley	9
9	Bob Kilby	8
10	Reg Luckhurst	5
11	George Hunter	4
12	Bill Andrew (res)	4
13	Wayne Briggs	3
14	Cyril Maidment	2
15	John Dews	2
16	Rick Timmo	2
17	Jack Biggs	1
18	Gordon Guasco	2

21 May
Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield
Top 8 to British Commonwealth final

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Barry Briggs	13
2	Jim McMillan	11
3	Ray Wilson	11
4	Roy Trigg	10
5	Charlie Monk	10
6	Chris Pusey	10
7	John Boulger	9
8	Martin Ashby	9
9	Bob Andrews	8
10	Tommy Roper	8
11	Les Sharpe	7
12	Ken McKinlay	4
13	Eric Boocock	3
14	Tony Clarke	3
15	Colin MCKee	2
16	Colin Pratt	2

Third round

Continental semi-finals

6 June
Svítkov Stadium, Pardubice
Top 8 to Continental final

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Valerij Klementiev	15
2	Vladimir Smirnov	11
3	Yury Dubinin	10
4	Viktor Trofimov	10
5	Jiří Štancl	10
6	Hans Jürgen Fritz	9
7	Nikołaj Aksenov	9
8	Grigory Khlinovsky	9
9	Antonín Šváb Sr.	8
10	Václav Verner	8
11	Jaroslav Volf	5
12	Viktor Pavlov	5
13	Jan Holub I	5
14	Hans Martens	2
15	Peter Liebing	1
16	Pal Perenyi	0

7 June
Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium, Bydgoszcz
Top 8 to Continental final

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Gennadij Kurilenko	14
2	Valerij Gordeev	12
3	Vladimir Kononovich	11
4	Viktor Kalmykov	11
5	Zdeněk Majstr	10
6	Jürgen Hehlert	10
7	Dieter Tetzlaff	10
8	Boris Cehanovich	9
9	Gabdrakhman Kadyrov	7
10	Gerhard Uhlenbrock	6
11	Josef Bössner	5
12	Jochen Dinse	4
13	Miloslav Verner	4
14	Jurij Lambotskij	1
15	Pavel Mareš	dns
16	Frantisek Ledecky	dns

British/Commonwealth Final

9 June 1970
West Ham Stadium, London
First 8 to British-Nordic Final

Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos
1	(13) Ivan Mauger	14				2	3							3		3					3		14	1
2	(4) Ronnie Moore	13	3							3				2				2				3	13	2
3	(3) Roy Trigg	12+3	1						3				3				3				2		12	3
4	(2) Arnold Haley	12+2	2					3				3				2				2			12	4
5	(6) Barry Briggs	10		3				0			3							3			1		10	5
6	(16) Trevor Hedge	9				3				1	2						2			1			9	6
7	(7) Jim Airey	8		0					1					1	3					3			8	7
8	(14) John Boulger	8				1		2					1		2							2	8	8
9	(11) Nigel Boocock	7			3				2		0					1						1	7	9
10	(12) Chris Pusey	6			2					2		2			0						0		6	10
11	(1) Charlie Monk	5	0				2				1				1				1				5	11
12	(8) Martin Ashby	5		1						0			2			0			2				5	12
13	(10) Ray Wilson	5			0			1						0			1		3				5	13
14	(5) Howard Cole	2		2			0					0					0					0	2	14
15	(9) Terry Betts	2			1		1						0					0		X			2	15
16	(15) Jim McMillan	2				0			0			1						1	0				2	16
	(17) Bob Kilby	0																					0
	(18) Tommy Roper	0																					0
Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside	gate B	gate C	gate D - outside

Nordic Final

4 June 1970
Snälltorpet, Eskilstuna
First 8 to British-Nordic Final

Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos	21
	(7) Göte Nordin	15		3					3					3	3					3			15	1
	(2) Sören Sjösten	12	3					3				3				1				2			12	2
	(12) Anders Michanek	11			3					1		2			2						3		11	3
4	(13) Bengt Larsson	10				1	3							2		3					1		10	4
5	(3) Reidar Eide	10	2						2				3				1				2		10	5
6	(5) Ove Fundin	9		2			E					1					3					3	9	6
7	(16) Ole Olsen	9				3				T	3						2			1			9	7
8	(11) Bengt Jansson	9			2				1		2					2						2	9	8
9	(8) Øyvind Berg	8		1						2			2			0			3				8	9
10	(4) Odd Fossengen	7	1							3				1				1				1	7	10
11	(6) Bengt Brannefors	6		0				2			1							3			0		6	11
12	(15) Bent Nørregaard-Jensen	6				2			0			0						2	2				6	12
13	(1) Niels Weis Sorensen	3	F				2				0				1				0				3	13
14	(9) Dag Lovaas	3			1		1						1					0		0			3	14
15	(14) Olle Nygren	1				0		1					0		0							0	1	15
16	(10) Matti Olin	1			0			0						0			0		1				1	16
Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos	21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside	gate B	gate C	gate D - outside

Fourth round

British Nordic Final

1 July 1970
Brandon Stadium, Coventry
First 8 to European Final

Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos
	(2) Sören Sjösten	14	3					3				2				3				3			14	1
	(13) Ole Olsen	13				2	3							3		2					3		13	2
	(14) Barry Briggs	12				3		2					1		3							3	12	3
4	(11) Ronnie Moore	11			3				3		3					0						2	11	4
5	(3) Ivan Mauger	10	0						2				3				3				2		10	5
6	(5) Jim Airey	10		3			1					3					2					1	10	6
7	(1) Bengt Jansson	10	2				2				2				1				3				10	7
8	(4) Anders Michanek	9	1							3				2				3				0	9	8
9	(9) Ove Fundin	7			1		0						2					2		2			7	9
10	(7) Trevor Hedge	6		1					1					1	2					1			6	10
11	(12) John Boulger	4			2					0		1			0						1		4	11
12	(16) Arnold Haley	4				0				2	1						1			0			4	12
13	(8) Göte Nordin	4		2						1			0			1			E				4	13
14	(10) Reidar Eide	3			F			1						0			0		2				3	14
15	(15) Roy Trigg	2				1			0			0						0	1				2	15
16	(6) Bengt Larsson	1		0				0			0							1			0		1	16
R1	(R1) Nigel Boocock	0																					0	R1
R2	(R2) Øyvind Berg	0																					0	R2
Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside	gate B	gate C	gate D - outside

Continental Final

2 June 1970
Abensberger Stadion, Abensberg
First 8 to European Final

Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos
	(9) Hans Jürgen Fritz	10			2		3						3					2					10	1
	(10) Valeri Klementiev	9			3			2						1			3						9	2
	(7) Zdenek Majstr	8		2					3					3	0								8	3
4	(15) Yury Dubinin	8				3			0			2						3					8	4
5	(1) Gennady Kurilenko	8	2				1				3				2								8	5
6	(2) Vladimir Kononovich	7	3					1				0				3							7	6
7	(12) Vladimir Gordeev	6			0					0		3			3								6	7
8	(16) Viktor Kalmykov	6				0				3	1						2						6	8
9	(5) Jiri Stancl	6		3			2					1					0						6	9
10	(11) Grigory Khlinovsky	6			1				2		2					1							6	10
11	(14) Dieter Tetzlaff	6				2		3					0		1								6	11
12	(8) Jürgen Hehlert	5		0						1			2			2							5	12
13	(13) Boris Cehanovich	4				1	0							2		1							4	13
14	(6) Nikolay Aksenov	1		1				0			0							0					1	14
15	(4) Nikolay Smirnov	0	F							-				-				-					0	15
16	(3) Viktor Trofimov	0	F						-				-				-						0	16
R1	(R1) Antonín Šváb Sr.	4	1						1				1				1						4	R1
R2	(R2) Gabdrakhman Kadyrov	3	0							2				0				1					3	R2
Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside	gate B	gate C	gate D - outside

Fifth round

European Final

20 July 1970
Leningrad Speedway Stadium, Leningrad
First 10 to World Final

Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos
	(4) Ivan Mauger	14	2							3				3				3				3	14	1
	(1) Vladimir Gordeev	11	3				0				3				2				3				11	2
	(10) Gennady Kurilenko	11			1			3						2			3		2				11	3
4	(12) Sören Sjösten	11			2					2		3			3						1		11	4
5	(5) Ole Olsen	11		2			3					2					2					2	11	5
6	(11) Barry Briggs	10			3				3		1					3						0	10	6
7	(3) Anders Michanek	9	0						2				3				1				3		9	7
8	(2) Valeri Klementiev	8	1					2				1				1				3			8	8
9	(15) Trevor Hedge	6				3			0			0						2	1				6	9
10	(13) Yury Dubinin	6				2	2							0		2					0		6	10
11	(7) Ronnie Moore	5		3					1					1	F					-			5	11
12	(6) Hans Jürgen Fritz	5		0				1			2							0			2		5	12
13	(14) Vladimir Kononovich	5				1		0					2		1							1	5	13
14	(9) Viktor Kalmykov	5			0		1						1					1		2			5	14
15	(8) Jim Airey	2		1						1			0			0			0				2	15
16	(16) Zdenek Majstr	1				0				0	0						0			1			1	16
R1	(R1) Bengt Jansson	0																					0	R1
R2	(R2) Yury Lombockiy	0																		0			0	R2
Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside	gate B	gate C	gate D - outside

Polish qualifying

6 seeded to World Final
1 Alfred Smoczyk Stadium, Leszno, 14 Jun; 2 Hasiok, Świętochłowice, 16 June; 3 Rybnik Municipal Stadium, 26 Jun; 4 Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium, 3 Jul; 5 Stadion żużlowy Gorzów, 10 Jul; 6 Stadion Kolejarz, Opole, 31 Jul; 7 Olympic Stadium, Wrocław, 7 Aug; 8 Stadion Wybrzeże, Gdańsk, 9 Aug

Pos.	Rider	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
1	Jan Mucha	6	14	12	13	12	8	6	13	72
2	Pawel Waloszek	9	12	11	6	12	11	12	13	71
3	Andrzej Wyglenda	8	12	9	14	14	5	10	9	68
4	Antoni Woryna	9	5	14	10	8	12	10	5	63
5	Henryk Glucklich	12	9	3	9	9	6	12	7	58
6	Jerzy Szczakiel	11	12	8	11	6	7	3	ns	58
7	Zygfryd Friedek	7	7	9	7	10	12	11	ns	56
8	Jozef Jarmula	6	11	10	8	6	6	ns	13	54
9	Stanislaw Kasa	10	4	8	9	8	7	7	6	49
10	Edmund Migoś	7	4	5	9	7	9	11	1	48
11	Zygmunt Pytko	7	3	8	3	ns	7	10	+0	38
12	Stanislaw Skowron	6	4	5	3	0	11	6	ns	35
13	Henryk Żyto	8	8	4	5	ns	5	0	4	34
14	Jerzy Trzeszkowski	0	7	7	0	5	ns	ns	12	31
15	Piotr Bruzda	7	2	2	1	7	5	3	5	29
16	Stanisław Tkocz	5	4	5	9	3	ns	ns	ns	26
17	Zbigniew Podlecki	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	2	5	11	18
18	Jerzy Gryt	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	6	5	ns	11
19	Wiktor Waloszek	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	3	7	10
20	Jerzy Padewski	ns	ns	ns	ns	8	ns	ns	ns	8
21	Leszek Marsz	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	8	8

World Final

6 September 1970
Olympic Stadium, Wrocław^[10]

Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos
	(10) Ivan Mauger	15			3			3						3			3		3				15	1
	(16) Paweł Waloszek	14				3				3	3						2			3			14	2
	(1) Antoni Woryna	13	3				3				2				3				2				13	3
4	(15) Sören Sjösten	9				2			3			1						3	0				9	4
5	(2) Henryk Glücklich	9	2					2				3				2				0			9	5
6	(13) Valeri Klementiev	8				0	1							1		3					3		8	6
7	(11) Barry Briggs	7			2				1		0					1						3	7	7
8	(14) Andrzej Wyglenda	7				1		0					3		2							1	7	8
9	(4) Anders Michanek	7	0							1				2				2				2	7	9
10	(7) Ole Olsen	6		3					2					0	E					1			6	10
11	(9) Jan Mucha	6			1		2						0					1		2			6	11
12	(3) Hans Jürgen Fritz	5	1						0				1				1				2		5	12
13	(6) Vladimir Gordeev	5		2				1			1							0			1		5	13
14	(12) Gennady Kurilenko	2			F					2		F			-						-		2	14
15	(8) Zygfryd Friedek	2		F						0			2			F			-				2	15
16	(5) Trevor Hedge	0		E			E					F					R					-	0	16
R1	(R1) Edmund Migoś	4										2			1				1		F	0	4	R1
R2	(R2) Jerzy Szczakiel	0																					0	R2
Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside	gate B	gate C	gate D - outside

References

↑ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 20–21. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
↑ "World Championship 1936-1994". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ "WORLD FINALS 1936-1994" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ "HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL – RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ "Champion Ivan makes History". Newcastle Journal. 7 September 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 9 July 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
↑ "1970 World Championship". Metal Speedway. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
↑ "1970 World Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
↑ Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). A History of the World Speedway Championship. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5

[1] Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 20–21. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.

[2] "World Championship 1936-1994". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.

[3] "WORLD FINALS 1936-1994" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 July 2021.

[4] "HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Retrieved 9 July 2021.

[5] "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 9 July 2021.

[6] "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL – RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.

[7] "Champion Ivan makes History". Newcastle Journal. 7 September 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 9 July 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.

[8] "1970 World Championship". Metal Speedway. Retrieved 20 January 2024.

[9] "1970 World Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 20 January 2024.

[10] Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). A History of the World Speedway Championship. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5

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Individual Speedway World Championship and Speedway Grand Prix seasons
Speedway World Championship	1936 1937 1938 1939 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Speedway Grand Prix (SGP)	1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
See also	Medalists Medal Classification Grands Prix SGP riders Super Prix SGP Statistics