1965 Individual Speedway World Championship

1965 Individual Speedway World Championship
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The 1965 Individual Speedway World Championship.

British Qualification

Date	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd place
Preliminary Round
13 May	Middlesbrough	Goog Allan	Russ Dent	Harry Bastable
15 May	Rayleigh	Tommy Sweetman	Ken Adams	Des Lukehurst
22 May	Ipswich	Tommy Sweetman	Howdy Byford	Ken Adams
26 May	Cowdenbeath	Russ Dent	Bruce Ovenden	Graham Coombes
9 June	Kings Lynn	Harry Bastable	Pete Smith	Maurie McDermott
12 June	Coventry	Nigel Boocock	Jack Kitchen	Rick France
12 June	Swindon	Barry Briggs	Mike Broadbanks	Martin Ashby
12 June	Manchester	Cyril Maidment	Gordon McGregor	Dick Fisher
14 June	Exeter	Barry Briggs	Trevor Hedge	Geoff Mudge
14 June	Newcastle	Charlie Monk	Brian Brett	Ivan Mauger
15 June	West Ham	Roy Trigg	Norman Hunter	Ken McKinlay
16 June	Long Eaton	Barry Briggs	Jim Lightfoot	Jack Kitchen
17 June	Sheffield	Nigel Boocock	Clive Featherby	Billy Bales
17 June	Oxford	Jimmy Gooch	Ron How	Colin Pratt
18 June	Newport	Peter Vandenberg	Reg Luckhurst	Cyril Maidment
18 June	Glasgow	Charlie Monk	Bluey Scott	Ivan Mauger
18 June	Hackney	Ron How	Roy Trigg	Colin Pratt
18 June	Wolverhampton	Trevor Hedge	Peter Jarman	Nigel Boocock
19 June	Wimbledon	Trevor Hedge	Bob Andrews	Jackie Briggs
19 June	Halifax	Jimmy Gooch	Ronnie Genz	Eric Boocock
19 June	Cradley Heath	Charlie Monk	Jim Airey	John Hart
19 July	Edinburgh	Maury Mattingley	Gordon Guasco	Brian Craven
23 July	Poole	Ronnie Genz	Geoff Mudge	Roy Trigg
Semi-Finals
28 July	Poole	Nigel Boocock	Barry Briggs	Jimmy Gooch
30 July	Glasgow	Charlie Monk	Trevor Hedge	Brian Brett
Final
31 August	West Ham	Barry Briggs	Nigel Boocock	Ken McKinlay

British Final

• August 31, 1965
• West Ham
• first 8 to World Final plus 1 reserve

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
	(8) Barry Briggs	13		1						3			3			3			3				13	1
	(2) Nigel Boocock	11	3					3				E				2				3			11	2	3
	(4) Ken McKinlay	11	2							2				3				2				2	11	3	2
4	(10) Brian Brett	10			3			2						1			2		2				10	4
5	(12) Reg Luckhurst	10			2					0		3			2						3		10	5
6	(11) Jimmy Gooch	10			1				2		3					1						3	10	6
7	(7) Mike Broadbanks	9		2					0					2	3					2			9	7	3
8	(15) Gordon Guasco	9				3			1			1						3	1				9	8	2
9	(5) Charlie Monk	8		3			2					2					1					X	8	9
10	(16) Trevor Hedge	7				2				1	F						3			1			7	10
11	(3) Bob Andrews	6	1						3				1				0				1		6	11
12	(14) Ivan Mauger	5				1		0					2		1							1	5	12
13	(6) Colin Gooddy	4		0				1			M							1			2		4	13
14	(9) Peter Vandenberg	3			E		3						0					0		0			3	14
15	(1) Bill Andrew	1	E				0				1				0				0				1	15
16	(13) Ronnie Genz	1				E	1							0		F					0		1	16
R1	(R1) Norman Hunter	0																					0	R1
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

Scandinavian Qualifications

Date	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd place
Qualifications
25 April	Vetlanda	Bo Josefsson	Leif Enecrona	Rune Sormander
28 April	Boras	Ove Fundin	Per Olaf Soderman	Bjorn Knutsson
1 May	Visby	Bengt Jansson	Bo Josefsson	Hans Holmqvist
11 May	Skien	Bjorn Knutsson	Sverre Harffeldt	Leif Enecrona
27 May	Hillerod	Leif Larsson	Per Olaf Soderman	Hans Holmqvist
Final
18 June	Skien	Soren Sjosten	Ove Fundin	Leif Enecrona

Scandinavian Final

• June 18, 1965
• Skien
• First 8 to Europen Final

Pos.	Rider	Heat Scores	Total
1	Soren Sjosten		14
2	Ove Fundin		12
3	Leif Enecrona		11
4	Bjorn Knutsson		11
5	Bengt Jansson		11
6	Gunnar Malmqvist		11
7	Sverre Harrfeldt		10
8	Leif Larsson		9
9	Per Olaf Soderman		7
10	Bo Magnusson		5
11	Kalevi Lahtinen		4
12	Henry Harrfeldt		4
13	Bo Josefsson		3
14	Sven Sigurd		2
15	Bengt Brannefors		0
16	Hans Holmqvist		0

Continental Round

Date	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd place
Quarter-Finals
9 May	Graz	Andrzej Wyglenda	Jaroslav Volf, Jr.	Antoni Woryna
9 May	Ljublana	Gennadij Kurilenko	Jan Mucha	Andrzej Pogorzelski
9 May	Miskolc	Luboš Tomíček, Sr.	Jurij Chekranov	Pawel Waloszek
9 May	Neubrandenburg	Zbigniew Podlecki	Boris Samorodov	Rudolf Havelka
Semi-Finals
23 May	Abensberg	Pawel Waloszek	Igor Plechanov	Andrzej Wyglenda
23 May	Lvov	Pavel Mareš	Jan Mucha	Zbigniew Podlecki
Continental Final
13 June	Wroclaw	Andrzej Wyglenda	Igor Plechanov	Andrzej Pogorzelski
European Final
26 June	Slany	Ove Fundin	Bjorn Knutsson	Antoni Woryna

Continental Final

• June 13, 1965
• Wroclaw
• First 8 to European Final plus 1 reserve

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
	(15) Andrzej Wyglenda	12				1			3			2						3	3				12	1
	(2) Igor Plechanov	12	2					3				1				3				3			12	2
	(14) Andrzej Pogorzelski	11				0		2					3		3							3	11	3
4	(12) Antoni Woryna	10			3					3		0			2						2		10	4
5	(1) Luboš Tomíček, Sr.	10	3				3				1				1				2				10	5
6	(7) Pawel Waloszek	9		3					2					3	0					1			9	6
7	(13) Antonin Kasper, Sr.	8				3	2							1		1					1		8	7
8	(6) Marian Rose	8		1				1			3							0			3		8	8
9	(5) Pavel Mareš	8		2			0					3					1					2	8	9
10	(9) Joachim Maj	7			2		1						0					2		2			7	10
11	(3) Gennadij Kurilenko	6	1						1				1				3				0		6	11
12	(8) Zbigniew Podlecki	6		0						1			2			2			1				6	12
13	(10) Jan Mucha	5			1			0						2			2		0				5	13
14	(11) Jaroslav Volf, Jr.	3			0				0		2					0						1	3	14
15	(4) Stanislav Kubicek	3	0							2				0				1				0	3	15
16	(16) Valentin Moiseev	2				2				0	0						0			0			2	16
R1	(R1) Florian Kapala	0																					0	R1
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

European Final

• June 26, 1965
• Slany
• First 8 to World Final plus 1 reserve

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
	(3) Ove Fundin	14	3						3				2				3				3		14	1	3
	(8) Bjorn Knutsson	14		2						3			3			3			3				14	2	2
	(9) Antoni Woryna	11			3		1						1					3		3			11	3
4	(14) Andrzej Pogorzelski	10				3		3					0		3							1	10	4
5	(10) Igor Plechanov	10			2			2						3			2		1				10	5
6	(6) Andrzej Wyglenda	9		3				1			1							2			2		9	6
7	(13) Bengt Jansson	8				0	3							2		2					1		8	7
8	(16) Soren Sjosten	8				2				2	2						1			1			8	8
9	(7) Luboš Tomíček, Sr.	7		1					1					1	2					2			7	9
10	(15) Leif Larsson	7				1			2			3						1	0				7	10
11	(1) Marian Rose	7	1				E				3				2				1				7	11
12	(4) Antonin Kasper, Sr.	6	2							1				0				0				3	6	12
13	(5) Per Olaf Soderman	5		0			2					1					0					2	5	13
14	(12) Gunnar Malmqvist	3			1					E		2			0						0		3	14
15	(2) Leif Enecrona	1	0					0				E				1				0			1	15
16	(11) Pawel Waloszek	0			0				0		0					0						0	0	16
R1	(R1) Pavel Mareš	0																					0	R1
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

World Final

• September 18, 1965
• London, Wembley Stadium^[1]

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
	(12) Björn Knutsson	14			2					3		3			3						3		14	1
	(15) Igor Plechanov	13				3			3			2						2	3				13	2	3
	(3) Ove Fundin	13	2						2				3				3				3		13	3	2
4	(13) Barry Briggs	10				2	3							1		3					1		10	4
5	(10) Bengt Jansson	10			3			1						2			2		2				10	5
6	(5) Brian Brett	9		3			0					1					3					2	9	6
7	(14) Sören Sjösten	9				1		3					3		2							0	9	7
8	(2) Nigel Boocock	8	3					0				0				2				3			8	8
9	(6) Andrzej Pogorzelski	7		2				2			3							0			F		7	9
10	(11) Antoni Woryna	6			1				2		2					0						1	6	10
11	(3) Leif Larsson	5	1						0				2				F				2		5	11
12	(9) Reg Luckhurst	4			0		2						1					1		0			4	12
13	(7) Ken McKinlay	4		0					1					0	1					2			4	13
14	(8) Jimmy Gooch	3		1						1			0			1			0				3	14
15	(16) Andrzej Wyglenda	2				0				0	1						1			0			2	15
16	(1) Luboš Tomíček, Sr.	2	0				1				0				0				1				2	16
R1	(R1) Mike Broadbank	0																					0	R1
R2	(R2) Marian Rose	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	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

References

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