1986 Speedway World Pairs Championship

1986 World Pairs Championship
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The 1986 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the seventeenth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Pocking, West Germany. The championship was won by Denmark who beat United States after Run-Off (both 46 points). Bronze medal was won by Czechoslovakia (32 points).

Semifinal 1

• Lonigo
• May 11

Pos.	Team	Rider	Points
	England (49 pts)	Simon Wigg	27
		Kenny Carter	22
	United States (41 pts)	Shawn Moran	25
		Bobby Schwartz	16
	Australia (41 pts)	Phil Crump	22
		Steve Regeling	19
4	Italy (37 pts)	Armando Castagna	21
		Valentino Furlanetto	16
5	Hungary (29 pts)	Zoltan Adorjan	17
		Sandor Tihanyi	12
6	Italy B (29 pts)	Paolo Salvatelli	21
		Francisco Biginato	8
7	Austria (15 pts)	Toni Pilotto	12
		Heinrich Schatzer	3
8	Netherlands (14 pts)	Frits Koppe	12
		Henny Kroeze	4
9	Norway (11 pts)	Ingvar Skogland	6
		Arnt Forland	5

Semifinal 2

• Pardubice
• May 18

Pos.	Team	Rider	Points
	Denmark (52 pts)	Hans Nielsen	27
		Erik Gundersen	25
	Sweden (45 pts)	Jan Andersson)	24
		Tommy Nilsson	23
	Czechoslovakia (39 pts)	Roman Matousek	22
		Antonin Kasper, Jr.	17
4	New Zealand (34.5 pts)	Mitch Shirra	17.5
		Larry Ross	17
5	Poland (30.5 pts)	Roman Jankowski	16.5
		Wojciech Żabiałowicz	14
6	Finland (30 pts)	Kai Niemi	19
		Ari Koponen	11
7	Yugoslavia (20 pts)	Kreso Omerzel	12
		Zvonko Pavlic	8
8	Bulgaria (14 pts)	Nikolaj Manev	7
		Angel Jeftimov	7
9	France (8 pts)	Patrice Blondy	6
		Thierry Hilaire	2

World final

• Pocking, Rottalstadion
• June 11

Pos.	Team	Rider	Points
	Denmark (46+5 pts)	Hans Nielsen (5,4,5,4,4,5)	27+5
		Erik Gundersen (e,5,e,5,5,4)	19
	United States (46+4 pts)	Kelly Moran (3,5,3,5,4,3)	23+4
		Sam Ermolenko (4,4,4,4,5,2)	23
	Czechoslovakia (32 pts)	Antonín Kasper, Jr. (1,5,5,5,5,1)	22
		Roman Matousek (2,1,4,x,3,0)	10
4	Sweden (32 pts)	Jan Andersson (4,3,5,1,2,2)	17
		Tommy Nilsson (5,1,1,2,3,3)	15
5	New Zealand (32 pts)	Larry Ross (3,3,3,3,4,4)	20
		Mitch Shirra (4,2,2,4,x,x)	12
6	West Germany (27 pts)	Karl Maier (3,4,4,3,3,5)	22
		Klaus Lausch (2,0,0,1,1,1)	5
7	England (23 pts)	Jeremy Doncaster (5,2,2,1,0,2)	12
		Simon Wigg (0,3,0,3,2,3)	11
8	Italy (15 pts)	Valentino Furlanetto (1,1,1,0,1,5)	8
		Armando Castagna (0,0,0,2,0,4)	7
9	Australia (15 pts)	Phil Crump (2,2,3,0,2,1)	10
		Steve Regeling (1,0,2,2,f,-)	5

See also

• 1986 Individual Speedway World Championship
• 1986 Speedway World Team Cup
• motorcycle speedway
• 1986 in sports