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1996 Speedway World Team Cup

{{Short description|37th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition}}

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The 1996 Speedway World Team Cup was the 37th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.{{cite web|url=http://motorsporttop20.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/11.-Speedway-World-Cup-Nations.pdf|title=FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP/ SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS|website=Motor Sport Top 20|access-date=13 July 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/wtc96.htm|title=1996 WORLD TEAM CUP|website=International Speedway|access-date=15 July 2021}}

The final took place on 15 September, at the Rhein-Main Arena in Germany. The Poland team won their seventh title but their first for 27 years having last won the 1969 Speedway World Team Cup.{{cite web|url=http://edinburghspeedway.blogspot.com/2014/02/world-team-cup-1960-1990.html|title=World Team Cup 1960-1990|website=Edinburgh Speedway|access-date=13 July 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/10649/1996-world-team-cup-final|title=Speedway riders, history and results|website=wwosbackup|access-date=12 July 2021}}{{cite news |title=Speedway |work=Western Daily Press|date=16 September 1996 |access-date=22 December 2023 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004974/19960916/039/0039 | via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

First round

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!width=15% align=center {{Speedway color|P2}}|2nd

!width=15% align=center {{Speedway color|P3}}|3rd

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|valign=top align=left {{Speedway color|p1}}|{{speedway|RUS}} 42
1.Oleg Kurguskin (3,3,3,3,3,-) - 15
2.Sergey Darkin (3,3,3,3,t/3) - 15
3.Sergey Jeroshin (3,f/x,3,3,3) - 12

|valign=top align=left {{Speedway color|p2}}|{{speedway|CRO}} 29
4.Zlatko Kržnarič (2,1,2,3,3,2) - 13
5.Krunoslav Žganec (0,3,1,3,2,2) - 11
6.Renato Kušter (2,1,1,1,*,*) - 5

|valign=top align=left {{Speedway color|p3}}|{{speedway|NED}} 23
7.Patrick Verbrugge (e,f/x,2,2,1,e) - 5
8.Rob Steman (2,3,3,2,2,2) - 14
9.Jan van Deijk - (1,2,*,1,*) - 4

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!width=15% align=center |5th

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13.Jerome Georgese (1,1,1,0,0,2) - 5
14.Thierry Bouin (0,0,0,*,1,*) - 1
15.Christophe Dubernard (2,2,1,2,2,1) - 10

|valign=top align=left |{{speedway|BUL}} 9
10.Nikolai Manev (1,2,2,1,-,1) - 7
11.Rudolf Valentinov (1,1,0,f/x,-) - 2
12.Milen Manev (e,0,t,0,0,e) - 0

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17.Želko Feher (-,-,1,-,-,-) - 1
18.Tomaš Oletič - ns

New Zealand and Finland withdrew

Russia and Croatia to second round

Second round

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P1|RUS|Russia

|9|Oleg Kurguskin |2||2||2||3||3|||T

|10|Sergey Darkin |3||3||3|||F||-||-

|19|Roman Povazhny |||||||1||2||1|

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P2|UKR|Ukraine

|5|Aleksandr Lyatosinsky ||-||-|0|||-||-|2| |1b=

|6|Igor Marko |2||3||3||3|||F||-

|17|Vladimir Trofimov |3||0||||1||2||3| |3b=

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P3|LVA|Latvia

|3|Nikolay Kokin ||X|2||2|||X|2||2|

|4|Vladimir Voronkov |1||1||3||2||3||3|

|16|Aleksandr Biznya ||||||||||||

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{{speedway event 7p/p|4|ITA|Italy

|13|Alessandro Milanese ||||||||||||

|14|Andrea Maida |3||3||0||2||3|||F

|21|Valentino Furlanetto |2||2||1||1||1||1|

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{{speedway event 7p/p|5|SLO|Slovenia

|7|Gregor Pintar |1||0|||-|0|||-||- |1b=

|8|Krešo Omerzel |0||1||1|||-|3||2|

|18|Gerhard Lekse |||||0||3||2||3|

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{{speedway event 7p/p|6|AUT|Austria

|1|Andreas Bossner |3||1||2||3||1||1|

|2|Helmut Lercher |2||0||1||0|||-||-

|15|Thomas Stadler |||||||||0||0|

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{{speedway event 7p/p|7|CRO|Croatia

|11|Zlatko Krznraric |0||1||2||2||0||1|

|12|Krunoslav Zganec |1||0||1||0|||-||-

|20|Renato Kuster |||||||||1||0|

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Russia and Ukraine to third round

Third round

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P1|POL|Poland

|7|Tomasz Gollob |1||2||2||3||2|||-

|8|Piotr Protasiewicz |3||3||3|||-|1||3|

|18|Rafal Dobrucki |||||||1||||1|

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P2|RUS|Russia

|1|Rinat Mardanshin |1||3||3||3||3||3| |1b=

|2|Sergey Darkin |2||2||0||2||2||0|

|15|Flyur Kalimullin |||||||||||| |3b=

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P3|HUN|Hungary

|13|Csaba Hell |1||2||2||2||1||2|

|14|Zoltán Adorján |0||3||3||0||2||1|

|21|Sándor Tihanyi ||||||||||||

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{{speedway event 7p/p|4|CZE|Czech Republic

|5|Tomas Topinka |2||1||1||3||3||3|

|6|Antonín Kasper Jr. |0||2||2|||-|0|||-

|17|Bohumil Brhel |||||||1|||||E

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{{speedway event 7p/p|5|NOR|Norway

|3|Lars Gunnestad |3||3||1||2|||-||- |1b=

|4|Rune Holta ||||||||||||

|16|Tryggve Jensen |0||0||0||0||3||3|

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{{speedway event 7p/p|6|POL|Poland B

|9|Wiesław Jaguś |3|||E||-|3||1||2|

|10|Grzegorz Walasek |1||1||1||1|||-||E

|19|Sebastian Ułamek ||||||E||||E||

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{{speedway event 7p/p|7|UKR|Ukraine

|11|Igor Marko |2||1|||E|2||2||2|

|12|Vladimir Kolody ||||||||||||

|20|Aleksandr Lyatosinsky |0||0||1||0||1||0|

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Poland and Russia to World final

World Final

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P1|POL|Poland

|7|Tomasz Gollob |3||2||2||3||2||3|

|8|Piotr Protasiewicz ||F||-||-||-||-||-

|18|Slawomir Drabik |||3||3||1||3||2|

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P2|RUS|Russia

|1|Rinat Mardanshin |3||1||3||3||2||1| |1b=

|2|Sergey Darkin |2||2|||-||-||-||-

|15|Oleg Kurguskin |||||2||2||1||0| |3b=

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{{speedway event 7p/p|P3|DEN|Denmark

|9|Brian Andersen |3||1||3||3||3||3|

|10|Jesper B. Jensen |2||0||1|||-||-|1|

|19|Nicki Pedersen |||||||1||0|||

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{{speedway event 7p/p|4|GER|Germany

|13|Gerd Riss |3||3|||F|2||3||3|

|14|Robert Barth |0||2||2|||-|2|||E

|21|Robbie Kessler |||||||0|||||

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{{speedway event 7p/p|5|SWE|Sweden

|3|Niklas Klingberg |0|||E|1||2||2||2|

|4|Stefan Dannö |1||2|||-|0||3||1|

|16|Daniel Andersson |||||0|||||||

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{{speedway event 7p/p|6|ENG|England

|5|Paul Thorp |2||3||0||2||0||2|

|6|Sean Wilson |1|||E|1|||X|1|||E

|17|Scott Nicholls ||||||||||||

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{{speedway event 7p/p|7|HUN|Hungary

|11|Sándor Tihanyi |1||0|||-|1|||-|1|

|12|Zoltán Adorján |0||1||1|||-|1|||-

|20|Norbert Magosi |||||0||3||0||0|

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See also

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