List of Individual Speedway World Championship medalists

The list of World Champion in Speedway lists all individual World Champion in Speedway. The World Cup is the single most important competition for Speedway rider. The first world championships were held in 1936. From 1939 to 1948 no world championships were held because of the Second World War and its consequences. The fact that the Speedway Sports Department at the start only in the UK over a wide reputation, the first 15 finals of the world championships all at Wembley Stadium in London took place. From the 1960s, then cities in Sweden and Poland came to the venues. With the beginning of the 1980s was followed by cities in the U.S., Germany the Netherlands and Denmark.

As of 1995, the World Cup, similar to the Formula 1 World Championship, conducted at the Grand Prix system, at various locations races, known as Grand Prix, to be carried out and get the drivers for their respective standings Points that are added for the world to be determined. By 1994, the World Championships were carried out in a system similar to the German championship. Here, at various locations qualification runs ( quarterfinals, semifinals ) were performed to determine the finalists.

Until 1994

From 1995

Statistics

Leaderboard

In this leaderboard all drivers are listed that have won at the World Individual Championships at least one title.

  • Position: specifies the position in the eternal rankings, sorted by the number of league titles won. With the same number of league titles, the number of runner-up decides. If these are equal decides the number of third places.
  • Name: Name of driver
  • First: Number of championship
  • Second: Number of second places
  • Third: Number of third places
  • Total: Number of podium finishes

Nations Cup

In this Nations Cup all nations are listed, of which at least one driver has won the Individual World Championships title.

  • Position: specifies the position in the national rankings, sorted by the number of league titles won. With the same number of league titles, the number of runner-up decides. If these are equal decides the number of third places.
  • Nation: Name of the Nation
  • First: Number of championship
  • Second: Number of second places
  • Third: Number of third places
  • Total: Number of podium finishes
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