1960 Speedway World Team Cup

1960 Speedway World Team Cup
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1960 Speedway World Team Cup was the first FIM Speedway World Team Cup season. The final took place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The World Champion title was won by Sweden team (44 pts) who beat England (30 pts), Czechoslovakia (15 pts) and Poland (7 pts).

Sweden's reigning World Champion Ove Fundin went through the entire World Team Cup undefeated. This feat would not be matched until Australia's Jason Crump went through the 2001 Speedway World Cup undefeated. To honour Fundin's deeds in 1960, the winners of the current Speedway World Cup (which replaced the Team World Cup in 2001) receive the Ove Fundin Trophy.

Qualification

Scandinavian Round

9 June
Odense
Att: 6,000

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Sweden - 43 Ove Fundin - 12 Rune Sormander - 11 Olle Nygren - 10 Alf Jonsson - 10	Denmark - 25 Arne Pander - 10 Hans P. Boiisen - 7 Kurt W. Pedersen - 6 Svend Nissen - 2 Poul Wissing - 0	Norway - 21 Aage Hansen - 11 Rolf Mellerud - 3 Nils K. Paulsen - 3 Rolf Westerberg - 3 Sverre Harrfeldt - 1	Finland - 7 Kalevi Lahtinen - 3 Antti Pajari - 2 Timo Laine - 1 Valle Seliverstov - 1 Aulis Lethonen - 0

* Sweden to Final

British Round

R1: 18 July - London, Wimbledon Stadium
R2: 21 July - Oxford, Oxford Stadium
R3: 5 August - Swindon, Abbey Stadium
R4: 10 August - Manchester - Hyde Road

Team	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
England	134	35	24	33	42
New Zealand	106	28	27	23	28
Australia	72	18	22	12	20
Challengers	72	15	23	28	6

* England to Final

Central European Round

31 July
Pilzno

1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Czechoslovakia - 47 Stanislav Svoboda - 12 Frantisek Richter - 12 Lubos Tomicek - 12 Antonin Kasper - 11	West Germany - 26 Josef Hofmeister - 9 Alfred Aberl - 8 Josef Seidl - 7 Hans Jager - 2	Austria - 13 Ferdinand Troner - 5 Josef Bossner - 3 Kurt Schwingenschlogl - 3 Erich Luther - 1 Leopold Dolanski - 1	Netherlands - 8 Hans van der Sluis - 3 Tonny Kroeze - 3 Thei Bisschops - 2

* Czechoslovakia to Final

East European Round

Round was canceled. Poland was qualify to the final. East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia windraw.

World Final

2 September 1960
Göteborg, Ullevi
Attendance: 11,500

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Sweden	44	Rune Sormander - 11 (3,2,3,3) Ove Fundin - 12 (3,3,3,3) Olle Nygren - 12 (3,3,3,3) Bjorn Knutsson - 9 (3,E,3,3) res. Gote Nordin - NS
	England	30	Peter Craven - 8 (2,2,2,2) Ron How - 7 (2,3,2,-) Ken McKinlay - 8 (2,3,1,2) Nigel Boocock - 1 (1,0,-,-) res. George White - 6 (-,-,2,2/2)
	Czech Republic	15	Luboš Tomíček, Sr. - 4 (0,2,1,1) Jaroslav Mahac - 3 (1,1,1,0) Frantisek Richter - 3 (1,1,1,F) Antonín Kasper, Sr. - 5 (2,0,2,1) res. Bohumil Bartonek - NS
4	Poland	7	Konstanty Pociejkowicz - 3 (1,2,E,0) Marian Kaiser - 2 (0,1,0,1) Mieczyslaw Polukard - 2 (0,1,0,1) Jan Malinowski - 0 (E,0,F,0) res. Bronislaw Rogal - 0 (0)