1963 Speedway World Team Cup

1963 Speedway World Team Cup
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1963 Speedway World Team Cup was the fourth FIM Speedway World Team Cup season. The final took place in Vienna, Austria. The World Champion title was won by Sweden (37 pts) who beat Czechoslovakia (27 pts), Great Britain (25 pts) and Poland (7 pts).

Format

Semi-finals

Final

23 May - Målilla, Sweden

13 June - Olching, West Germany

Sweden

48

Czechoslovakia

41

Norway

22

West Germany

39

Denmark

18

Yugoslavia

8

Finland

8

Austria

7

31 August - Vienna, Austria

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Sweden

37

Czechoslovakia

27

Great Britain

25

Canceled

4 August - Ufa, Soviet Union

Poland

7

Great Britain

Poland

40

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Soviet Union

39

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East Germany

15

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Bulgaria

1

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Qualification

Nordic Round

• 23 May
• Målilla, Målilla Speedway

Pos.		National team	Pts.	Riders
		Sweden	48	Arne Carlsson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Bjorn Knutsson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Per Olaf Soderman - 12 (3,3,3,3) Per Tage Svensson - 12 (3,3,3,3)
		Norway	22	Aage Hansen - 7 Jon Odegaard - 6 Cato Agnor - 5 Reidar Eide - 4
		Denmark	18	Paul Wissing - 8 Erik Kastebo - 4 Hans Möller - 4 Einar Hansen - 2
4		Finland	8	Esko Koponen - 5 Matti Olin - 3 Martti Assinen - 0 Erkki Ala-Sippola - 0

British Round

The British Round was cancelled. Great Britain was seeded to the Final.

Central European Round

• 13 June
• Olching, Olching Speedwaybahn

Pos.		National team	Pts.	Riders
		Czechoslovakia	41	Antonin Kasper, Sr. - 11 Stanislav Kubiček - 10 Karel Pruša - 10 Luboš Tomiček, Sr. - 10
		West Germany	39	Josef Hofmeister - 12 (3,3,3,3) Manfred Poschenrieder - 10 Heinrich Sprenger - 9 Alfred Aberl - 8
		Yugoslavia	8	Evald Babic - 3 Damijan Klasnetic - 3 Drago Perko - 2 Milan Kalisnik - 0
4		Austria	7	Kurt Schwingenschlögl - 4 Günther Walla - 3 Wilfried Vacano - 0 Leopold Dolansky - 0

East European Round

• 4 August
• Ufa

Pos.		National team	Pts.	Riders
		Poland	40	Antoni Woryna - 6 (2,2,2,-) Marian Kaiser - 10 (3,2,2,3) Joachim Maj - 2 (2,-,-,-) Henryk Zyto - 12 (3,3,3,3) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 10 (-,2,3,3\2)
		Soviet Union	39	Boris Samorodov - 11 (2,3,3,3) Igor Plechanov - 9 (2,3,2,2) Gennady Kurilenko - 10 (3,3,2,2) Viktor Shilo - NS Leonid Drobyazko - 9 (3,1,3,2)
		East Germany	16	Jochen Dinse - 4 (0,2,1,1) Jürgen Hehlert - 4 (1,1,1,1) Günther Schelenz - 4 (1,1,1,1) Jürgen Rudolph - 4 (1,1,1,1) Heino Niemann - NS
4		Bulgaria	1	Milko Pejkov - 1 (1,0,-,-) Boris Damjanov - 0 (-,0,0,0) Krasimir Sokolov - 0 (0,0,0,0) Gavril Macev - 0 (0,0,-,0) Aleksander Stojanov - 0 (0,-,0\0,0)

World final

• 31 August
• Vienna, Stadion Wien

Pos.		National team	Pts.	Riders
		Sweden	37	Björn Knutsson - 11 (3,3,3,2) Per Olof Söderman - 10 (3,3,1,3) Ove Fundin - 7 (2,2,-,3) Göte Nordin - 6 (3,2,0,1) res. Rune Sörmander - 3 (-,-,3,-)
		Czechoslovakia	27	Antonín Kasper, Sr. - 10 (2,3,2,3) Stanislav Kubicek - 7 (1,1,3,2) Miroslav Smid - 5 (2,1,1,1) Luboš Tomíček, Sr. - 5 (0,1,2,2) res. Zdenek Kovar - NS
		Great Britain	25	Barry Briggs - 12 (3,3,3,3) Peter Craven - 8 (2,2,2,2) Dick Fisher - 4 (0,2,1,1) Peter Moore - 1 (0,0,0,1) res. Leo McAuliffe - NS
4		Poland	7	Henryk Żyto - 4 (1,1,2,0) Marian Kaiser - 1 (0,0,1,0) Joachim Maj - 1 (1,0,-,0) Stanisław Tkocz - 1 (1,0,0,0) res. Andrzej Pogorzelski - 0 (-,-,0,-)

See also

• 1963 Individual Speedway World Championship
• motorcycle speedway