FIM Long Track World Championship explained

World Longtrack Championship
Sport:	Motorcycle speedway
Founded:	1957
Most Champs:	Gerd Riss (8 times)

This is the complete list of Individual Long Track World Championship medalists from 1971. Also included are the medalists from 1957 to 1970 when the championship was known as the European Individual Long Track Championship.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Medalists

European Long Track Championship

(*) Shows position was gained after a run-off.

width=80px	Year	width=160px	Venue	width=250px	Winners	width=250px	Runner-up	width=250px	3rd place
1957	Solvalla		Basse Hveem		Josef Hofmeister		Eric Brafvold
1958	Mühldorf		Josef Hofmeister		Aulis Tuominen		Josef Kamper
1959	Käpylä		Josef Hofmeister		Antti Pajari		Olle Nygren
1960	Plattling		Josef Hofmeister		Josef Seidl		Josef Sinzinger
1961	Oslo		Timo Laine		Ove Fundin		Erik Simonsen
1962	Mühldorf		Bertil Stridh		Joseph Seidl		Timo Laine
1963	Malmö		Bertil Stridh		Kurt W. Petersen		Manfred Poschenreider
1964	Scheeßel		Kurt W. Petersen		Ollie Turunen		Manfred Poschenreider
1965	Seinäjoki		Björn Knutson		Timo Laine		Joseph Seidl
1966	Mühldorf		Manfred Poschenreider		Kurt W. Petersen		Jon Ødegaard
1967	Scheeßel		Manfred Poschenreider		Don Godden		Jon Ødegaard
1968	Mühldorf		Manfred Poschenreider		Don Godden		Kurt W. Petersen
1969	Oslo		Don Godden		Jon Ødegaard		Kurt W. Petersen
1970	Scheeßel		Jon Ødegaard		Don Godden		Hans Zierk

World Long Track Championship

width=80px	Year	width=160px	Venue	width=250px	Winners	width=250px	Runner-up	width=250px	3rd place
1971	Oslo		Ivan Mauger		Manfred Poschenreider		Runo Wedin
1972	Mühldorf		Ivan Mauger		Manfred Poschenreider		Jon Ødegaard
1973	Oslo		Ole Olsen		Hans Siegl		Manfred Poschenreider
1974	Scheeßel		Egon Müller		Ivan Mauger		Alois Wiesböck
1975	Gornja Radgona		Egon Müller		Ivan Mauger		Ole Olsen
1976	Mariánské Lázně		Ivan Mauger		Ole Olsen		Egon Müller
1977	Aalborg		Anders Michanek		Hans Siegl		Ole Olsen
1978	Mühldorf		Egon Müller		Alois Wiesböck		Peter Collins(*)
1979	Mariánské Lázně		Alois Wiesböck		Anders Michanek		Ole Olsen
1980	Scheeßel		Karl Maier		Egon Müller		Josef Aigner Christoph Betzl
1981	Gornja Radgona		Michael Lee		Christoph Betzl		Anders Michanek(*)
1982	Korskro		Karl Maier		Alois Wiesböck		Egon Müller
1983	Mariánské Lázně		Shawn Moran		Jiří Štancl		Karl Maier
1984	Herxheim		Erik Gundersen		Egon Müller		Karl Maier
1985	Korskro		Simon Wigg		Jiří Štancl		Peter Collins
1986	Pfarrkirchen		Erik Gundersen		Peter Collins(*)		Marcel Gerhard
1987	Mühldorf		Karl Maier		Simon Wigg		Shawn Moran(*)
1988	Scheeßel		Karl Maier		Klaus Lausch		Chris Morton
1989	Mariánské Lázně		Simon Wigg		Aleš Dryml Sr.		Karl Maier
1990	Herxheim		Simon Wigg		Karl Maier(*)		Hans Pingel
1991	Mariánské Lázně		Gerd Riss		Aleš Dryml Sr.(*)		Jan O. Pedersen
1992	Pfarrkirchen		Marcel Gerhard		Mitch Shirra		Karl Maier
1993	Mühldorf		Simon Wigg		Karl Maier		Marcel Gerhard(*)
1994	Mariánské Lázně		Simon Wigg		Andre Pollehn		Gerd Riss(*)
1995	Scheeßel		Kelvin Tatum(*)		Simon Wigg		Walter Scherwitzki
1996	Herxheim		Gerd Riss		Robert Barth		Bernd Diener

Grand Prix Series (since 1997)

width=80px	Year	width=160px	Venues	width=250px	Winners	width=250px	Runner-up	width=250px	3rd place
1997 details	five events		Tommy Dunker		Steve Schofield		Glenn Cunningham
1998 details	five events		Kelvin Tatum		Gerd Riss		Steve Schofield
1999 details	five events		Gerd Riss		Robert Barth		Kelvin Tatum
2000 details	five events		Kelvin Tatum		Robert Barth		Matthias Kröger
2001 details	four events		Gerd Riss		Kelvin Tatum		Robert Barth
2002 details	five events		Robert Barth		Gerd Riss		Kelvin Tatum
2003 details	six events		Robert Barth		Kelvin Tatum		Gerd Riss
2004 details	five events		Gerd Riss		Kelvin Tatum		Bernd Diener
2005 details	nine events		Robert Barth		Gerd Riss		Paul Hurry
2006 details	five events		Robert Barth		Joonas Kylmäkorpi		Gerd Riss
2007 details	three events		Gerd Riss		Joonas Kylmäkorpi		Mathieu Trésarrieu
2008 details	four events		Gerd Riss		Glen Phillips		Dirk Fabriek
2009 details	five events		Gerd Riss		Stephane Tresarrieu		Dirk Fabriek
2010 details	six events				Theo Pijper
2011 details	six events				Richard Speiser
2012 details	six events
2013 details	six events						Richard Hall
2014 details	five events						Joonas Kylmäkorpi
2015 details	four events						Dimitri Bergé
2016 details ^[9]	five events						Mathieu Trésarrieu
2017 details	five events		Mathieu Trésarrieu		Michael Hartel		Josef Franc
2018 details	five events				Dimitri Bergé		Mathieu Trésarrieu
2019 details	five events		Dimitri Bergé				Mathieu Trésarrieu
2020 details	two events		Lukas Fienhage		Kenneth Kruse Hansen		Mathieu Trésarrieu
2021 details	four events
2022 details^[10] ^[11]	six events				Zach Wajtknecht		Chris Harris
2023 details	six events				Chris Harris		Kenneth Kruse Hansen
2024 details	five events				Lukas Fienhage		Zach Wajtknecht

Riders

See main article: List of Speedway Long Track World Championship riders.

Classification

Classification from the start of the World Long Track Championship in 1971.

width=20px	No.	width=100px	Rider	width=90px	Nationality	width=30px		width=30px		width=30px
1.				8		3		3
2.				5		2
3.				4		3		1
4.				4		2		4
5.				4		2		1
6.				3		3		2
7.				3		3
8.				3		2		2
9.				3		2
10.				2		1
11.				2				5
12.				2
13.				1		3
14.				1		2		1
15.				1		1
16.				1		1		3
17.				1		1		1
18.				1				2
19.				1				1
20.				1
				1
				1

Records

• Most Appearances in Final: Gerd Riss 25.
• Most Overall Points: Theo Pijper 1369.
• Most One Day Finals: Egon Müller 20.
• Most One Day Points: Karl Maier 329.
• Most Grand-Prix Series Appearances: Theo Pijper 24.
• Most Grand-Prix Appearances: Theo Pijper 104.
• Most Grand-Prix Points: Theo Pijper 1369.
• Most Grand-Prix Podiums Mathieu Trésarrieu 34.
• Most Grand-Prix Wins Gerd Riss & Joonas Kylmäkorpi 16

Records up to date and including the 2023 Grand Prix series.

See also

• Motorcycle speedway
• Team Long Track World Championship

References

Books

• Book: Loader, Tony. Loader's International Speedway Annual 1991. Tony Loader. 1991. 31–33. 1036-4404.

External links

• GrasstrackGB

Notes and References

1. Web site: World Longtrack World Champions. Grasstrack GB.
2. Web site: Speedway and Longtrack. Speedway.org. 28 March 2024.
3. Web site: World Longtrack finals 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes. Speedway Plus.com . 28 March 2024.
4. Book: Montague, Trevor. A To Z of Sport, page 512. 2004. Little Brown. 0-316-72946-9.
5. Book: Oakes, Peter. 1981 Speedway Yearbook. 1981. 29–30. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. 0-86215-017-5.
6. Book: Bott, Richard. The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. 1980. 102. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. 0-09-141751-1.
7. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. 1987. 290. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5.
8. Book: Montague, Trevor. The A-Z of Sport. 2004. 511–512. Little, Brown. 0-316-72645-1.
9. Web site: World Longtrack Championship 2016 Overall Standings - Grasstrack GB. grasstrackgb.co.uk.
10. Web site: World Longtrack Championship 2022 Overall Standings. FIM.
11. . King Mat, champ Zach . Speedway Star . 20 . 17 September 2022 .