1979 Speedway World Team Cup
Introduction The '''1979 Speedway World Team Cup''' was the 20th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.The final took place on 16 September at the White City Stadium in London. New Zealand won their first title defeating defending champions Denmark, who finished in second place.
Qualification Stage 1 ===Commonwealth Round===* 20 May*  Smallmead Stadium, Reading* Referee:  C.Bergstrom'''* New Zealand and USA to Intercontinental Final'''===Scandinavian Round===* 20 May*  Eteläpuisto, Tampere1st2nd3rd4th''' - 39'''Hans Nielsen - 12Ole Olsen - 11Mike Lohmann - 10Bo Petersen - 4Erik Gundersen - 2''' - 32'''Anders Michanek - 10Bernt Persson - 9Jan Andersson- 8Tommy Nilsson - 3Stefan Salomonsson - 2''' - 16'''Kai Niemi - 7Pekka Hautamaki - 4Ari Koponen - 3Olli Turkia - 2Ila Teromaa - 0''' - 9'''Tormod Langli - 6Reidar Eide - 1Tom Godal - 1Rolf Gramstad  - 1Toralf Olen - 0'''* Denmark and Sweden to Intercontinental Final'''===Continental Round===* 20 May*  Illerstadion, Kempten1st2nd3rd4th''' - 32'''Herbert Szerecs - 10Walter Grubmüler - 9Adi Funk - 7Hubert Fischbacher - 5Gunther Walla - 1''' - 30'''Frits Koppe - 9Henny Kroeze - 8Rudi Muts- 5Frits Koning - 4Henk Steman - 4''' - 29'''Waldemar Bacik - 9Georg Hack - 9Karl Maier - 8Georg Gilgenreiner - 2Wolfgang Mayr - 1''' - 5'''Frank Hagar - 2Ivan Vobujak - 2Vlado Kocuvan - 1Manfred Kosmut  - 0Jozef Mavsar - 0'''* Austria and Netherlands to Continental Semifinal'''* 20 May*  Borsod Volán Stadion, Miskolc1st2nd3rd4th''' - 34'''Mikhail Starostin - 11Valery Gordeev - 9Grigory Khlinovsky - 7Sergey Denisov - 6Vladimir Klychkov - 1''' - 30'''Laszlo Meszaros - 9Istvan Sziraczki - 9Janos Szoeke- 9Tibor Danka - 1Antal Tamcsu - 0''' - 25'''Giuseppe Marzotto - 9Paulo Noro - 7Mauro Ferracciolo - 5Francesco Biginato - 4''' - 9'''Atanasz Janakiev - 3Orlin Janakiev - 3Nikolai Manev - 2Deter Kostov  - 1Angel Eftimov - 0'''* Soviet Union and Hungary to Continental Semifinal''''''Semifinal'''* 15 July*  Svítkova Stadion, Pardubice'''* Soviet Union and Hungary to Continental Final'''
Qualifying Stage 2 ===Continental Final===* 29 July*  Olympic Stadium, Wrocław* Att: 35,000'''* Poland and Czechoslovakia to Final'''===Intercontinental Final===* 14 June*  Snälltorpet, Eskilstuna* Att: 4,400'''* New Zealand and Denmark to World Final'''
World Final * 16September 16*  White City Stadium, London* Referee:  Gunther Sorber
See also * 1979 Individual Speedway World Championship* 1979 Speedway World Pairs Championship
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