Russia National Speedway Team

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russia are an international speedway team who compete in the major international competition, the Speedway World Cup. They are managed by Andrey Savin and the current captain is Rybnik's Denis Gizatullin. The Russia national speedway team has never won the Speedway World Cup although have been runner up on 5 occasions as the Soviet Union and once as Russia. They have never been a major force but are consistent qualifiers for the group stage. The following table shows their best recent performance in 1996 when the tournament was run with pairs rather than teams. Igor Alexandrovich Plechanov (Russian: ) (July 26, 1933 in Ufa, Russian SFSR August 1, 2007) is a former Soviet speedway rider who finished second in the Speedway World Championship in 1964 and 1965.[1]. He was the first Soviet rider to appear in a World Final. He was the USSR National Champion in 1960, 1963, 1965 and 1968. He also coached the USSR national team from 1970 until 1972.... Mehr