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Soviet Union/Ukrainian motorcycle speedway rider

Gennady Kurilenko
Bornc. 1944
Lviv, Soviet Union
Died16 February 2013 (aged 68 or 69)
NationalitySoviet Union / Ukrainian
Career history
Soviet Union
1962, 1967–1970, 1974–1975Ufa
1963–1966Lviv
1971–1973Balakovo
Individual honours
1964Speedway World Championship finalist
1968Continental Champion
1970Soviet Champion

Gennady Kurilenko (c. 1944–2013) was an international speedway rider from Ukraine (part of the Soviet Union at the time).

Speedway career

Kurilenko reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1964 Individual Speedway World Championship.

Kurilenko was the champion of the Soviet Union, winning the title in 1970. He had previously won the Continental Speedway final in 1968.

In 1964, he was part of the Soviet Union team that toured Britain for the first time and was a metal craftsman by trade at the time and later that year he reached his first world final; the 1964 Individual Speedway World Championship, held on 11 September at the Ullevi in Sweden. In 1965 he toured the United Kingdom as part of the Soviet Union national team again.

World final appearances

Individual World Championship

World Team Cup

References

  1. "NEWPORT SPEEDWAY IN 1965". Thisisnotgwent. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  2. "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  3. "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  4. "WORLD FINALS 1936-1994" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  5. "Individual USRR Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  6. Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 100. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
  7. "Now it's from Russia with speed". Manchester Evening News. 15 May 1964. Retrieved 5 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. "Knutsson can beat them all". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 5 September 1964. Retrieved 5 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. "Igor and Boris lead the Reds". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 15 May 1965. Retrieved 5 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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