1936 Individual Speedway World Championship information
First official edition of the World motorcycle speedway championship
1936 Individual Speedway World Championship
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The 1936 Speedway World Final programme.
The 1936 Individual Speedway World Championship was the first ever Speedway World Championship and was won by Lionel Van Praag of Australia. The forerunner to the World Championship was generally regarded to be the Star Riders' Championship.[1][2][3] The final was held at London's Wembley Stadium in front of 74,000. It was the first of a record 26 times that Wembley would host the World Final with the last being in 1981.[4]
^Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 20–21. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
^"World Championship 1936-1994". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
^Oakes, Peter (1990). Speedway Yearbook 1990. Front Page Books. p. 13. ISBN 0-948882-15-8.
^"WORLD FINALS 1936-1994" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
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