1965 Speedway World Team Cup

6th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition

1965 Speedway World Team Cup was the sixth edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The final took place at the Illerstadion in Kempten, West Germany. The World Champion title was won by Poland.^[4]^[5]

Format


Qualifying round		Semifinals		Final

		Odense, Denmark (details)

		Sweden	45

		Norway	23

Olching, West Germany (details)		Finland	19	Kempten, West Germany (details)

Poland	39	Denmark	9	Poland	38

Czechoslovakia	32			Sweden	33

West Germany	21	Ufa, Soviet Union (details)		Great Britain**	18

Austria	4	Poland	37	Soviet Union	7

		Soviet Union	30

Meissen, East Germany (details)		Czechoslovakia	27

Soviet Union	45	East Germany	2

Poland*	25

East Germany	13

East Germany II*	11

* Replacement teams not eligible to qualify
** Great Britain seeded to the final

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Poland	39	Zbigniew Podlecki - 11 Jan Mucha - 10 Paweł Waloszek - 10 Joachim Maj - 8
	Czechoslovakia	32	Luboš Tomíček Sr. - 10 Antonín Kasper Sr. - 8 Pavel Mares - 7 Jaroslav Volf - 7 Frantisek Ledecky - NS
	West Germany	21	Heinrich Sprenger - 6 Manfred Poschenreider - 5 Otto Lantenhammer - 5 Rainer Jüngling - 3 Fred Aberl - 2
4	Austria	4	Kurt Schwingenschlögl - 2 Johann Kühr - 2 Alfred Rinzner - 0 Günther Walla - 0

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Soviet Union	48	Igor Plekhanov - 12 (3,3,3,3) Gennady Kurilenko - 12 (3,3,3,3) Vladimir Sokolov - 12 (3,3,3,3) Yuri Chekranov - 9 Gabdrakhman Kadyrov - NS
	Poland*	25	Adolf Slabon - 9 Konstanty Pociejkewicz - 8 Bogdan Jaroszewicz - 5 Piotr Bruzda - 3 Wladislaw Wawszczyk - 0
	East Germany	13	Jochen Dinse - 6 Jürgen Hehlert - 4 Hans Jürgen Fritz - 2 Heino Niemann - 1 Peter Liebing - 0
4	East Germany II*	11	Bruno Bülau - 5 Günther Schelenz - 4 Jürgen Rudolph - 1 Peter Hehlert - 1 Jochen Hetmank - NS

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Sweden	45	Bengt Jansson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Bo Josefsson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Per Olof Söderman - 12 (3,3,3,3) Bjorn Knutson - 9
	Norway	23	Henry Harrfeldt - 7 Per Aulie - 6 Sverre Harrfeldt - 6 Nils Paulsen - 4
	Finland	19	Timo Laine - 8 Kalevi Lahtinen - 7 Matti Olin - 3 Olavi Turunen - 1 Heikki Kaprali - 0
4	Denmark	9	Erik Kastebo - 5 Svend Nissen - 2 John S. Andersen - 1 Einar Hansen - 1

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Poland	37	Andrzej Wyglenda - 11 (3,2,3,3) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 11 (3,3,3,2) Zbigniew Podlecki - 9 (2,3,3,1) Antoni Woryna - 6 (3,1,0,2) Paweł Waloszek - NS
	Soviet Union	30	Igor Plekhanov - 10 (3,2,2,3) Yuri Chekranov - 9 (2,3,2,2) Gennady Kurilenko - 5 (1,1,2,1) Viktor Trofimov - 5 (-,2,1,2) Vladimir Sokolov - 1 (1,-,-,-)
	Czechoslovakia	27	Jaroslav Volf - 10 (2,3,2,3) Luboš Tomíček Sr. - 7 (1,2,3,1) Antonín Kasper Sr. - 5 (0,1,1,3) Stanislav Kubíček - 5 (2,1,1,1) Pavel Mares - NS
4	East Germany	2	Jochen Dinse - 1 (0,0,1,0) Günther Schelenz - 1 (1,0,0,0) Hans-Jürgen Fritz - 0 (0,0,0,0) Jürgen Hehlert - 0 (0,0,0,0) Heino Niemann - NS

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Poland	38	Andrzej Wyglenda - 11 (3,3,3,2) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 11 (3,3,3,2) Antoni Woryna - 9 (1,2,3,3) Zbigniew Podlecki - 7 (1,2,2,2) Paweł Waloszek - NS
	Sweden	34	Bjorn Knutson - 11 (3,3,2,3) Ove Fundin - 8 (ef,3,2,3) Bengt Jansson - 8 (1,2,3,2) Göte Nordin - 6 (2,1,2,1) Leif Larsson - NS
	Great Britain	18	Ken McKinlay - 7 (2,1,1,3) Nigel Boocock - 6 (3,2,0,1) Jimmy Gooch - 3 (-,1,1,1) Barry Briggs - 1 (F,1,0,-) Charlie Monk - 1 (1,0,-,-)
4	Soviet Union	7	Gennady Kurilenko - 2 (2,0,0,0) Yuri Chekranov - 2 (2,r,-,-) Vladimir Sokolov - 2 (0,1,1,0) Igor Plekhanov - 1 (0,F,1,0) Viktor Trofimov - 0 (-,-,0,0)

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