Georg Hack
{{Short description|West German speedway rider}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox Speedway rider
| name = Georg Hack
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| nationality = German
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|2|20}}
| birth_place = Landshut, West Germany
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| career1 = West Germany
| career2 = Bopfingen
| years2 = 1974
| career3 = Landshut
| years3 = 1975–1986
| career4 = Great Britain
| career5 = Ipswich Witches
| years5 = 1978-1979, 1983
| indivyear1 = 1982
| indivhonour1 = Speedway World Championship finalist
| indivyear2 = 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
| indivhonour2 = World Long Track finalist
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Georg Hack (born 20 February 1950) is a former international speedway rider from West Germany.{{cite web |url=https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/worldfinal_h|title=WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX|website=British Speedway|access-date=10 July 2021}} He earned 26 international caps for the West German national speedway team.{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Ultimate_Index_1929-2022.pdf |title=Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022 |website=British Speedway |access-date=17 March 2024}}
Speedway career
Hack reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1982 Individual Speedway World Championship representing West Germany.{{cite web |url=http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/worldchamps1936to94.pdf|title=World Speedway finals|website=Speedway Researcher|access-date=10 July 2021}} He has also reached the final of the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship on eight occasions during the period 1977 until 1985.{{cite web |url=https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/georg-hack/|title=Georg Hack|website=Grasstrack GB|access-date=10 July 2021}}
Hack rode in the final of the 1981 and 1982 World Team Cup.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19820807/019/0019 |title=Ex Vikings through to World Finals |website=Hull Daily Mail |date=7 August 1982 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=24 August 2024}}
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway, riding for Ipswich Witches.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004964/19781026/440/0048 |title=Cup stars may go |website=Suffolk and Essex Free Press |date=26 October 1978 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=24 August 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/historyarchive|title=History Archive|website=British Speedway|access-date=10 July 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/1221/georg-hack|title=Speedway riders, history and results|website=wwosbackup|access-date=10 July 2021}}
World final appearances
=Individual World Championship=
- 1982 - {{Flagicon|USA}} Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum - 11th - 6pts
- 1984 – {{flagicon|SWE}} Gothenburg, Ullevi – Reserve – Did not ride
=World Pairs Championship=
- 1978 - {{Flagicon|POL}} Chorzów, Silesian Stadium (with Hans Wassermann) - 6th - 13pts
=World Team Cup=
- 1981 - {{Flagicon|FRG}} Olching, Speedway Stadion Olching (with Egon Müller / Karl Maier / Georg Gilgenreiner) - 3rd - 28pts (5)
- 1982 - {{Flagicon|ENG}} London, White City Stadium (with Karl Maier / Egon Müller / Alois Wiesböck / Georg Gilgenreiner) - 3rd - 18pts (5)