1971 Individual Long Track World Championship

Speedway event in Oslo, Norway

1971 Individual Long Track World Championship
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The 1971 Individual Long Track World Championship was the first edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship. The event was held on 1 September 1971 in Oslo, Norway.

The world title was won by Ivan Mauger of New Zealand.

Final Classification

Pos	Rider	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Total Pts
1	Ivan Mauger	6	6	6	3	6	27
2	Manfred Poschenrieder	6	6	6	4	4	26
3	Runo Wedin	6	6	3	6	2	23
4	Jan Kater	4	2	0	6	3	15
5	Bent Nørregaard-Jensen	3	3	2	3	1	12
6	Barry Briggs	3	3	-	4	0	10
7	Don Godden	0	4	4	2	E	10
8	Hans Siegl	4	3	1	1	E	9
9	Sven Sigurd	4	2	1	2	E	9
10	Willihard Thomsson	2	4	3	0	E	9
11	Josef Unterholzner	2	1	4	1	E	8
12	Kurt W. Petersen	3	2	2	-	E	7
13	Berndt Hornfeldt	2	4	0	E	E	6
14	Jan Holm Nielsen	1	1	4	E	E	6
15	Jon Ødegaard	-	-	6	E	E	6
16	Walter Matl	-	1	3	E	E	4
17	Reijo Koski	1	0	2	E	E	3
18	Hans Zierk	-	-	-	E	E	0

Key

Oakes, Peter (1981). Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook, page 30. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
"SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org.
"World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB.
"WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes" (PDF). Speedway Plus.com.
Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.

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