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{{Short description|Annual motorcycle speedway World Championship team event}}{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}{{Use British English|date=October 2023}}
The
Speedway World Team Cup was an annual
speedway event held each year in different countries.BOOK, Bott, Richard, The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4, 1980, 98, Stanley Paul & Co Ltd, 0-09-141751-1, BOOK, Oakes, Peter, 1981 Speedway Yearbook, 1981, 25–26, Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd, 0-86215-017-5, The competition started in 1960 and was replaced with the
Speedway World Cup in 2001.WEB,
weblink World Team Cup, International Speedway, 29 March 2024, BOOK, Oakes, Peter, Speedway Yearbook 1990, 1990, 18, Front Page Books, 0-948882-15-8,
Format
From 1960 until 1985 each team consisted of four riders and a reserve. A final meeting was held after qualifying rounds, the winner being decided on total points scored in that final meeting.BOOK, Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian, The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, 1987, 290, Guinness Superlatives, 0-85112-492-5, In 1986, the teams that qualified for the 'final' raced three meetings, the winner of each meeting being awarded three points, second place awarded two points, and third place awarded a point. The total points gained over the three meetings determined the champion.WEB,
weblink Speedway riders, history and results, wwosbackup, 11 July 2021, In 1987, the three meeting system was used again, but this time the aggregate points scored by the individual riders were added together to determine the champion. 1988 saw the championship revert to the original format. In 1994 the
World Pairs Championship was merged with the World Team Cup and this system was used until 1999 when it once gain reverted to the original format. In 2001 the competition was relaunched as the
Speedway World Cup.WEB,
weblink Team Speedway World Championship History, Speedway.org, 3 July 2021,
weblink" title="archive.today/20010501025303
weblink">weblink 1 May 2001, dead, WEB,
weblink WORLD TEAM CUP, International Speedway, 15 July 2021,
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