1972 Individual Long Track World Championship
{{short description|Long track motorcycle racing event}}
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The 1972 Individual Long Track World Championship was the second edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.{{cite book|last=Oakes|first=Peter|title=Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook, page 30|year=1981|publisher=Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd|isbn=0-86215-017-5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.speedway.org/history/|title=SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK|publisher=Speedway.org}} The event was held on 9 July 1972 in Mühldorf, West Germany.{{cite web|url=http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/|title=World Longtrack World Champions|publisher=Grasstrack GB}}
The world title was won by Ivan Mauger of New Zealand for a second successive year.{{cite web|url=http://www.speedwayplus.com/pdf/Longtrack.pdf|title=WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes|publisher=Speedway Plus.com}}{{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A To Z of Sport, page 512|year=2004|publisher=Little Brown|isbn=0-316-72946-9}}
Final Classification
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|1 | align="left"| {{flagicon|NZL}} Ivan Mauger | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 30 |
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|2 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Manfred Poschenreider | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 23 |
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|3 | align="left"| {{flagicon|NOR}} Jon Ødegaard | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 18 |
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|4 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Hans Siegl | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
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|5 | align="left"| {{flagicon|DEN}} Bent Nørregaard-Jensen | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
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|6 | align="left"| {{flagicon|TCH}} Antonín Šváb Sr. | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | | ||
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|7 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Hans Zierk | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | E | 13 |
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|8 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Josef Angermüller | 3 | 4 | | ||||
| |4 | E | 11 | |||||
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|9 | align="left"| {{flagicon|SWE}} Willihard Thomsson | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | E | 11 |
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|10 | align="left"| {{flagicon|ENG}} Don Godden | 4 | 1 | 4 | | |||
| |E | 9 | ||||||
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|11 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Rudolf Kastl | f | 2 | 4 | 3 | E | 9 |
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|12 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Jan Kater | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | E | 6 |
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|13 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Heinrich Sprenger | 2 | 0 | 2 | E | E | 4 |
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|14 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Gottfried Schwarze | 0 | 2 | 1 | E | E | 3 |
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|15 | align="left"| {{flagicon|DEN}} Henning Hansen | 1 | 1 | 1 | E | E | 3 |
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|16 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FIN}} Matti Olin | 1 | 1 | 0 | E | E | 2 |
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|17 | align="left"| {{flagicon|NOR}} Nils Haraldsen | 0 | 0 | 1 | E | E | 1 |
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|18 | align="left"| {{flagicon|SWE}} Runo Wedin | 1 | 0 | 0 | E | E | 1 |
Key
- E = Eliminated (no further ride)
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Long Track World Championship}}
{{International speedway}}
Category:Sport in West Germany