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{{Short description|Soviet speedway rider}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}{{Use British English|date=April 2024}}

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| birth_place = Ufa, Soviet Union| death_date = | death_place = | career1 = Soviet UnionBashkiria Ufa>Ufa| years2 = 1974–1992| career3 = PolandŚląsk Świętochłowice>Świętochłowice| years4 = 1992Kraków Speedway>Kraków| years5 = 1993–1995Motor Lublin (speedway team)>Lublin| years6 = 1996| indivyear1 = 1975, 1981, 1985–1987, 1990–1991Russian Individual Speedway Championship>Soviet Union champion| indivyear2 = 1975, 1981, 1985–1987, 1990–1991Russian Individual Speedway Championship>Russian champion| indivyear3 = 1979, 1982| indivhonour3 = Speedway World Championship finalist| teamyear1 =| teamhonour1 = }}Mikhail Leontievich Starostin (born 24 February 1955) is a former international speedway rider from the Soviet Union.WEB,weblink WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX, British Speedway, 10 July 2021,

Speedway career

Starostin holds the record for Russian National Championships, winning the title seven times.WEB,weblink Russian Individual Speedway Championship, Historia Sportu Zuzlowego, 9 April 2024, In addition, he won the Soviet Union Individual Speedway Championship five times during the period from 1979 until 1990.WEB,weblink Indvidual USRR Championship, Historia Sportu Zuzlowego, 6 April 2024, BOOK, Bott, Richard, The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4, 1980, 101, Stanley Paul & Co Ltd, 0-09-141751-1, He reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1979 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1982 Individual Speedway World Championship.WEB,weblink WORLD FINALS 1936-1994, Speedway Researcher, 6 April 2024,

World final appearances

Individual World Championship

• 1979 – {{Flagicon|POL}} Chorzów, Silesian Stadium – 13th – 3pts
• 1982 – {{Flagicon|USA}} Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum – 16th – 0pts

World Team Cup

• 1981 – {{Flagicon|FRG}} Olching, Speedway Stadion Olching (with Valery Gordeev / Viktor Kuznetsov / Nikolay Kornev / Anatoly Maksimov) – 4th – 3pts (0)

References

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