1998 Speedway World Team Cup

1998 Speedway World Team Cup
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The final of the 1998 Speedway World Team Cup, the annual international speedway world championship tournament, took place on 11 September at the Vojens Speedway Center in Denmark. The winners were the United States team.

Qualification

Group B

June 7, 1998
LVA Daugavpils

1st	2nd	3rd
Latvia 35 10.Nikolay Kokin (2,1,3,3,2,2,3,2) - 18 11.Vladimir Voronkov (3,3,3,1,3,3,1,e) - 17	Norway 29 1.Lars Gunnestad (3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3) - 20 2.Arnt Forland (2,1,2,1,2,e,0,1) - 9	Ukraine 27 13.Igor Marko (1,2,2,2,3,2,e,2) - 14 14.Aleksandr Lyatosinskiy (2,1,2,1,2,1,2,2) - 13

4th	5th	track reserve
Slovenia 26 4.Matej Ferjan (1,0,3,1,3,2,3,3) - 16 5.Tomas Šustersič (3,2,f,0,1,1,2,1) - 10	Italy 3 7.Simone Terenzani (0,0,1,0,0,1,1,0) - 3 8.Nicolo Andriolo (0,0,0,e,0,0,0,0) - 0	16.Aleksandr Biznya - ns 17.Maksim Andreev - ns

Latvia and Ukraine to Group A

Group A

June 28, 1998
RUS Togliatti

Draw 1.

1st	2nd	3rd
Czech Republic 39 10.Marian Jirout (3,2,2,3,3,1) - 14 11.Adrian Rymel (3,3,1,,1,2) - 10 12.Antonín Kasper (3,3,,3,3,3) - 15	Hungary 35 1.Zoltan Adorjan (2,2,3,3,3,3) - 16 2.Sandor Tihanyi (3,3,3,1,2,2) - 14 3.Robert Nagy (1,e,,2,2,) - 5	Russia 32 7.Roman Povazhny - (1,2,2,2,2,3) - 12 8.Sergej Darkin (2,3,2,2,2,2) - 13 9.Oleg Kurguskin (1,2,,1,3,) - 7

4th	5th
Latvia 8 13.Nikolay Kokin (1,1,0,1,1,f) - 4 14. 15.Aleksandr Biznya (2,0,0,1,0,1) - 4	Ukraine 2 4.Igor Marko (f,-,-,-,-,-) - 0 5.Aleksandr Lyatosinskiy (0,1,1,0,0,-) - 2 6.

Czech Republic and Hungary to Final

World Final

September 11, 1998
DEN Vojens, Speedway Center

Placing	Pair / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
1	USA	28							10							18							28
	(1) Greg Hancock	12	2			3				1			2				2			2
	(2) Billy Hamill	16	3			2				2			3				3			3
	(15) Sam Ermolenko	0

2	Sweden	24							10							15							24
	(5) Tony Rickardsson	5		3			2			0					-				-			-
	(6) Jimmy Nilsen	13		2			3			3					0				3			2
	(17) Peter Karlsson	6													2				1			3

3	Denmark	23							8							13							23
	(11) Hans Nielsen	10			2				2				1		1			2					2
	(12) Brian Karger	4			3				1				0		-			-					-
	(20) Brian Andersen	9													3			3					3

4	Poland	17							4							12							17
	(13) Tomasz Gollob	15				1			3			3				3			2		3
	(14) Jacek Gollob	0				0			E			-				-			-		E
	(21) Robert Dados	2										E				2			0

5	Germany	14							6							12							14
	(9) Gerd Riss	1			1			-				-		-			-					-
	(10) Robert Barth	6			0			3				1		0			1					1
	(19) Matthias Kröger	7						2				2		3			0					E

6	Czech Republic	14							2							10							14
	(3) Antonin Kasper, Jr.	9	1				1				3			2				0			2
	(4) Marian Jirout	5	0				0				2			1				1			1
	(16) Adrian Rymel	0

7	Hungary	6							2							4							6
	(7) Zoltan Adorjan	5		1				1			1					0				1			1
	(8) Sandor Tihanyi	1		0				0			0					1				0			0
	(18) -	0
Placing	Pair / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell
ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside

gate B

gate C

gate D - outside

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See also	Host cities Medalists Medal classification

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1998 Speedway World Team Cup

Qualification

Group B

Group A

World Final

See also