1985 Speedway World Team Cup
Introduction The '''1985 Speedway World Team Cup''' was the 26th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.The final took place at the Veterans Memorial Stadium (Long Beach), in California, United States. Denmark won their third consecutive title (and fifth in total) surpassing Poland's four titles and moving into third place in the all time list.
Qualification stage 1 Day Venue Winner   stage 1 12 May  Bradford  England 12 May  Skien  Denmark 12 May  Civitanova  Czechoslovakia 12 May  Olching  West Germany 22 May  Gorzów  Poland===Commonwealth round===* 12 May 12, 1985*  Odsal Stadium, Bradford* Att: 8,000* Ref: J M Price (GB) 	 	'''* 1st & 2nd to Intercontinental Final'''===Scandinavian round===* 12 May 1985*  Geiteryggen Speedwaybane, Skien'''* 1st & 2nd to Intercontinental Final'''1st2nd3rd4th''' - 43'''Erik Gundersen - 12 Bo Petersen - 12 Preben Eriksen - 11 Jan O. Pedersen - 5 Tommy Knudsen - 3''' - 33'''Jan Andersson - 10 Tommy Nilsson - 8 Per Jonsson - 6 Jimmy Nilsen - 6 Pierre Brannefors - 3''' - 11'''Frits Koppe - 5 Henny Kroeze - 3 Henk Steman - 3 Leo Bathoorn - 0 Wil Stroes - 0''' - 8'''Dag Haaland - 3 Einar Kyllingstad - 2 Roy Otto - 2 Ingvar Skogland - 1 Arnt Førland - 0===Continental round===* 12 May, 1985*  San Savino Speedway Park, Civitanova Marche'''* 1st & 2nd to Continental Semi-Final'''1st2nd3rd4th''' - 36'''Václav Verner - 12 Antonín Kasper Jr. - 10 Aleš Dryml Sr. - 9 Zdenek Schneiderwind - 5''' - 35'''Armando Castagna - 10 Armando Dal Chiele - 9 Ottaviano Righetto - 8 Giorgio Zaramella - 8''' - 24'''Zoltán Adorján - 8 Sándor Tihanyi - 6 Zoltan Hajdu - 5 Istvan Bodi - 4 Zsolt Papp - 1''' - 1'''Zvonko Pavlic - 1 Zvone Gerjevic - 0 Artur Horvat - 0 Franc Zagar - 0 Joze Zibert - 0* 12 May 1985*  Olching Speedwaybahn, Olching* Att: 6,000'''* 1st & 2nd to Continental Semi-Final'''1st2nd3rd4th''' - 46'''Klaus Lausch - 12 Karl Maier - 12 Egon Müller - 8 Peter Wurtele - 8 Gerd Riss - 6''' - 29'''Maciej Jaworek - 8 Wojciech Żabiałowicz - 8 Andrzej Huszcza - 6 Jerzy Rembas - 4 Zenon Plech - 3''' - 16'''Heinrich Schatzer - 7 Toni Pilotto - 6 Siegfried Eder - 2 Adi Funk - 1''' - 5'''Nikolai Manev - 2 Stanislav Tzankov - 2 Vesselin Markov - 1 Angel Eftimov - 0 Orlin Janakiev - 0'''Semifinal'''* 22 May 1985*  Edward Jancarz Stadium, Gorzów* Att: 18,000'''* 1st & 2nd to Continental Final'''
Qualification stage 2 Day Venue Winner   Stage 2 22 June  Vojens  Denmark 7 July  Neustadt  Sweden===Intercontinental Final===* 22 June 1985*  Speedway Center, Vojens* Att: 12,000* Ref: Mel Price'''* Winner to Final ; 2nd & 3rd to Continental Final'''===Continental Final===* 7 July 1985*  Anton Treffer Stadion, Neustadt* Att: 8,000'''* 1st & 2nd to Final'''
World Final * 10 August 1985*  Long Beach, Veterans Memorial Stadium* Att: 18,000
See also * 1985 Individual Speedway World Championship* 1985 Speedway World Pairs Championship
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