"These included titles in the Bewdley Bonanza, the Lydden International and the Western Winner. Ivan Mauger Ivan Gerald Mauger (4 October 1939 – 16 April 2018) was a motorcycle speedway rider from New Zealand. He won a record six World Championships (Finals), a feat equalled only with the inclusion of the Speedway GP Championships by Tony Rickardsson of Sweden who won one World Final and five GP Championships. Mauger rode for several British teams – Wimbledon Dons, Newcastle Diamonds, Belle Vue Aces, Exeter Falcons, and the Hull Vikings. Ivan Mauger and his wife of over 50 years, Raye, lived on"
"moved to England and rode for the Wimbledon Dons from 1950 to 1956. In 1957 and 1958 he switched his attention to motor racing, but returned to ride for the Dons in late 1958 and stayed with them until 1963 when he decided to retire from racing after breaking his leg in a track crash. He began riding again in New Zealand in the mid-1960s and made a comeback with Wimbledon in 1969 and reached the World Final at the age of 36. In 1970 he won the World Pairs Championship with Ivan Mauger. He retired from racing in the"
"Dons in the National League during this season. In 1966 he qualified for his first World Final where he finished fourth, and won the first of his six record breaking World Championships in 1968. After a public falling out with Parker, Mauger put in a transfer request in December 1968, stating that the mental strain of riding with Newcastle was endangering his health. Mauger joined the Belle Vue Aces in 1969, where he enjoyed his greatest league team achievements. As a Belle Vue Ace he won the title in 1970, 1971 and 1972, thereby becoming the only rider to complete"
"Eberhard Rüger Eberhard Rüger is a German former ice dancer who represented East Germany. With his skating partner, Annerose Baier, he became a three-time Blue Swords champion (1963, 1965, 1966), the 1968 Prize of Moscow News champion, and an eight-time East German national champion (1962, 1964–1970). They finished in the top ten at eight ISU Championships. Their best continental result, fourth, came at the 1970 European Championships in Leningrad, Soviet Union. They finished as high as sixth at the World Championships, in 1969 (Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States) and 1970 (Ljubljana, Yugoslavia). Baier/Rüger started their career at SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt."
"In 1963, they began representing SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. Rüger was married to German figure skater Gabriele Seyfert from 1972 to 1975. Their daughter, Sheila, was born in 1974. With Baier Eberhard Rüger Eberhard Rüger is a German former ice dancer who represented East Germany. With his skating partner, Annerose Baier, he became a three-time Blue Swords champion (1963, 1965, 1966), the 1968 Prize of Moscow News champion, and an eight-time East German national champion (1962, 1964–1970). They finished in the top ten at eight ISU Championships. Their best continental result, fourth, came at the 1970 European Championships in Leningrad, Soviet Union."
"National Championships of almost every variety beginning in 1963. He was a member of 16 major U.S. international teams, starting with the 1963 Pan-American Games and his record includes: 22 World Championships (two individual, 20 team); seven Pan-American titles; 18 victories in the Championship of the Americas meet; 16 victories in the Council Internationale Sport du Militaire meet; and in those four meets, plus the Olympics, he won 108 medals. Wigger was a member of the Olympic shooting team in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980. The 1964 effort resulted in a gold medal. He won the gold for the three"
"Jansson, Torbjörn Harrysson and Ove Fundin. They defeated Poland, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. In 1970 Malmö hosted the Speedway World Pairs Championship which was won by New Zealand riders Ivan Mauger and Ronnie Moore. The Kiwis defeated Sweden (Ove Fundin and Bengt Jansson), and England who were represented by brothers Nigel and Eric Boocock. 1970 was the final time the stadium was used for World Championship speedway. Mauger would go on to break Ove Fundin's record of 5 World Championships by winning the title on 6 occasions. Sweden later regained a share of the record when Tony Rickardsson"
"both finished on 14 points. Four points back was Denmark's Finn Thomsen who defeated Dave Jessup and Ivan Mauger in a runoff for third place. Mauger would go on to make history in Poland, winning his record 6th Individual World Championship. Surprise non-qualifiers for the World Final were England's Gordon Kennett (who had finished second in the 1978 World Final at Wembley) and Finland's Kai Niemi. Both riders rode for the British League club White City with the White City Stadium being their home track. 1979 Intercontinental Final The 1979 Intercontinental Final was the fifth running of the Intercontinental Final"
"former world speedway champion Ivan Mauger. Tests: 5 (0 as Captain)<br> Games: 13 (0 as Captain)<br> Total Matches: 18 (0 as Captain)<br> Test Points: 0pts<br> Game Points: 33pts (6t, 0c, 0p, 1dg, 0m)<br> Total Points: 33pts (6t, 0c, 0p, 1dg, 0m) Stephen Bachop Stephen Bachop (born 2 April 1966 in Christchurch) is a former New Zealand rugby union player and current coach. He is the older brother of fellow former All Black, Graeme Bachop. Bachop had two spells in the National Provincial Championship with each Canterbury and Otago, and also played for the Highlanders in the first Super 12 season"
"fellow Kiwi rider Ivan Mauger). In 1980 he was third in the British League Riders' Championship and the following year he rode in the World Championship final at Wembley. From 1977 to 1986 he rode in eight finals of the World Pairs Championship with Ivan Mauger and Mitch Shirra. Riding with Mauger he was runnerup in 1978 and in 1981. During his long career, Larry Ross won the New Zealand Championship a record nine times. In 2006 he came out of retirement to win the New Zealand long track championship. Larry Ross Larry Ross (born 15 June 1954 in Christchurch,"
"competitions during the period. The longest recorded winning streak in any professional sports is Pakistan's Jahangir Khan's 555 consecutive wins in squash from 1981 to 1986. In 2013, the Dutch wheelchair tennis player Esther Vergeer retired with an active 10-year-long winning streak of 470 matches, including a streak of 250 consecutive sets won. 3 consecutive titles at FAI World Aerobatic Championships — Russia 3 consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games — Klaus Dibiasi 7 consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games — United States 11 consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games — United States 3 consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games"
"1976 World Final at Silesian. Ivan Mauger won the 1979 World Final at the stadium. Silesian also hosted the Final of the 1974 Speedway World Team Cup, won by England, as well as the Final of both the 1978 and 1981 World Pairs Championships. In 1967, the Silesian Stadium hosted the Polish Athletics Championships. In 1969, during an athletics tournament between Poland, East Germany and Soviet Union, Nadezhda Chizhova became the first woman in history to break the 20 metre barrier in shot put, setting the world record at 20.09m. In 2010, an official bid to organize the World Athletics"
"individual competition in six consecutive Olympics, by winning a bronze.. Other athletes who won medals in six consecutive Olympics did not do so in the same individual competition: Aladár Gerevich, a fencer from Hungary, won six gold medals between 1932 and 1960 with the Hungarian team; Elisabeta Lipă, a rower from Romania, won her medals between 1984 and 2004 in different disciplines (single scull, double scull, quadruple scull and eight). Armin Zöggeler Armin Zöggeler (born 4 January 1974) is a retired Italian luger and double Olympic champion. He is one of the most successful men in the sport, nicknamed ""Il"
"1958 to 1966, his best finishes being 4th–6th in 1963 (behind Stein, Spassky and Kholmov) and 4th-6th in 1965 (behind Stein, Polugaevsky and Taimanov). Until 1971, he served as a second and trainer to Tigran Petrosian for many of his most important matches, including his world championship victory in 1963. He was for many years Moscow's senior coach, overseeing the development of promising new talents, including Vassily Ivanchuk and Andrei Sokolov. Though less distinguished than before, his playing career stretched into the 1990s and beyond. He won the Hastings Challengers event of 1990/91, but was like Efim Geller, a chain-smoker,"
"medals in 1959 and 1961. Along with his Soviet teammates, he won the World Team Championships in Foil five times: in 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, and 1966. They also won a silver medal in 1967. Midler was captain of the Foil team for the 1960 Olympic Games and the 1964 Olympic Games. They won the gold medal in Team Foil at both Olympics. Midler coached fencing for the Olympic teams of the Soviet Union and Russia. From 1971 until 2000, Midler was the coach of the Soviet and later Russian national foil team. He was also the head coach of"
"the winner of numerous international regattas. He won the Olympic bronze medal in coxed pair at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in 1980. He also won the bronze medal in the coxless pair at the World Junior Championships in Naples in 1969. He was the winner at the Mediterranean Games in Split in 1979. He won the Gold medal at the Balkans championships for 7 times and national champion medal for 18 times. He won the gold medal in swimming at the military state championship. He competed and won in numerous sailing regattas in the class cruiser. As a"
"Championships without reaching the final. He became Czechoslovak champion in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1992, and Czech champion in 1993 and 1994. His personal best throw was 71.26 metres, achieved in May 1985 in San Jose. This is the Czech record, and puts him eighth in the all-time performers list worldwide. Imrich Bugár Imrich Bugár (born 14 April 1955) is a Czechoslovak discus thrower. An ethnic Hungarian who represented Czechoslovakia and then the Czech Republic, his career highlights include an Olympic silver medal from 1980, a European Championship title from 1982"
"started their career at SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt. In 1963, they began representing SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. After retiring from competition, Baier coached skating in Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz. With Rüger Annerose Baier Annerose Baier, married surname: Wetzel, (born 9 September 1946) is a German former ice dancer who represented East Germany. With her skating partner, Eberhard Rüger, she became a three-time Blue Swords champion (1963, 1965, 1966), the 1968 Prize of Moscow News champion, and an eight-time East German national champion (1962, 1964–1970). They finished in the top ten at eight ISU Championships. Their best continental result, fourth, came at the 1970 European Championships in"
"1997), Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964), Eurobasket (1973, 1997), Euroleague (1969, 1998, 2003, 2011), World Bowl (1997), CERS Cup (2011), 2003 EuroHockey Nations Championship and the 1951, 1954, 1957, 1979 European Roller Hockey Championship, 1955 Mediterranean Games, 1958 European Judo Championships, 1964 UEFA Euro (European Cup), 1970 European Water Polo Championship, 1970 European Aquatics Championships, 1971 Men's Hockey World Cup, 1973 UCI Road World Championships, 1976 European Taekwondo Championships, 1980 European Karate Championships, 1984 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, 1984 UCI Road World Championships, 1985 World Fencing Championships, 1987 World Taekwondo Championships, 1987 European Wushu Championships, 1989 IAAF"
"Liverpool City Raceway on 28 February 1981. The Final winner was six time World Champion Ivan Mauger. The championship alternated between New Zealand and Australia each year. To qualify for the Australasian Final, NZ riders had to finish in the top 8 of their national championship while the Australian riders qualified through a series of Zone Finals held throughout the country. Only one rider was ever allowed to skip the Australasian Final and still be part of the World Championship - as the reigning World Champion, Ivan Mauger was seeded straight to the Intercontinental Final in 1978 and the Commonwealth"
"IAAF Marketing & Promotion Commission since 1997, a member of the council of the International Association of Athletics Federations since 2007 and Treasurer. He was an active athlete for the Soviet Union, taking third place in the 110 metres hurdles at the 1973 national championships. He retired as an active athlete in 1976 a year after receiving his degree from Moscow Power Engineering University and began his career as a coach. He was the Soviet national coach from 1978-1984. He has since earned a PhD and is a doctor of sciences in theory and methodology of physical education and sports"
"3rd-4th in Budapest (26th HUN-ch; István Bilek won). In 1973, he tied for 7-8th in Budapest. In 1977, he took 2nd in Oslo. In 1977, he tied for 3rd-6th in Bagneux. In 1978, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Satu Mare. In 1979, he tied for 2nd-4th in the Budapest championships. Kluger played more than 50 games in the Hungarian national team in International team matches. He won two gold medals (team and individual at 6th board) in 1st Triennal Cup at Budapest 1954, two gold medals (team and individual at 3rd board) in 2nd Triennal Cup at Prague 1955, and"
"of cancer in 1988. The summer luge track in his hometown of Ilmenau was named in his honor the following year. Wolfram Fiedler Wolfram Fiedler (29 September 1951 – 11 April 1988) was an East German luger who competed from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. He won two bronze medals at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, earning them in the men's singles and men's doubles event, respectively. Fiedler also won two medals in the men's singles event at the FIL World Luge Championships with a gold in 1975 and a silver in 1973. He also won three medals in"
"resides in Budapest. In May 2012, Magyar was inducted to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Zoltán Magyar Zoltán Magyar (born 13 December 1953) was the world's leading pommel horse gymnast in the 1970s. In this event he won two Olympic, three world, three European and two World Cup titles. Magyar had two moves named after him, the Magyar spindle (turning the body in the opposite direction from the circling legs) and the Magyar travel (crosswise circling travel down the horse). He won the Olympic gold in 1976 and 1980; world championships gold in 1974, 1978 and 1979; European championships"
"was usually awarded to a single sportsperson, but on two occasions, two people received it – Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman (ice dancers) in 1962, and the Pospíšil brothers (cycle-ball players) in 1979. The prize was given to 28 different athletes, 22 men and 6 women, in 23 sports disciplines. Gymnast Věra Čáslavská won the prize four times, the most of any sportsperson. She was also the only one to have received it in three consecutive years (from 1966 to 1968). Six people were awarded the prize more than once. The team prize was won by teams in 12 sport"
"Germany (1) 10 pts (Manfred Poschenrieder 8, Fred Aberl 2, Rainer Jungling 0) Denmark 6 pts (Jens Hauser 4, Kurt W Petersen 2) 1969 (Stockholm, Sweden) 1st New Zealand 28 pts (Ivan Mauger 18, Bobby Andrews 10) 2nd Sweden 27 pts (Ove Fundin 14, Gote Nordin 10) 3rd England 21 pts (Nigel Boocock 11, Martin Ashby 10) Denmark 17 pts (Ole Olsen 13, Bengt Norregaard 4) Czechoslovakia 15 pts (Jan Holub 9, Zdenek Majstr 6) East Germany 9 pts (Gerhard Uhlenbrock 8, Jochen Dinse 1) Bulgaria 8 pts (Peter Petkov 6, Peter Iliev 2) The 1971 Final won by Poles"
"from 1968 to 1976; in 1968 he won two gold medals in the Men's Club Throw A and Men's Discus A events, a silver medal in the Men's Javelin A event, and a bronze medal in the Men's Shot Put A event, and in 1972 he won a silver medal in the Men's Discus 3 event and a bronze medal in the Men's Precision Javelin open event. A lifelong member of the Toowong Harriers Club, he coached Olympians Norma Croker, Eric Bigby, and Pat Duggan. Bigby said of him: He was Australia's head track and field coach at the 1988"
"1971 he became Master of Sports of the USSR. In 1980 he was awarded the title of Merited Master of Sports of the USSR. Results of competitions 1973 - Champion of sports society ""Dynamo"" (USSR). 1974 - World Champion and Champion of the USSR. 1975 - Champion of the USSR. 1976 - European Champion and Champion of the USSR. 1977 - Champion of the USSR. 1978 - Champion of the USSR. 1979 - World Champion and Champion of the USSR. 1980 - Champion of the USSR. 1981 - Bronze Medalist of the USSR Championship. 1982 - Silver Medalist of the"
"scored 15 points in the final, held at the Rybnik Municipal Stadium in Rybnik, Poland. As a measure of Szczakeil's skill as a rider, between 1971 and 1973 he raced Ivan Mauger 13 times - and won 6, including beating him twice in the 1973 World Final. At home in Poland, Szczakiel rode for second division team Kolejarz Opole in the ""Druga Liga"". He continued to ride for Opole until his forced retirement from a back injury in 1980. He stayed involved with the team as Manager until 1986 and is now an honorary member of the club. During his"
"sidelined him for the 2002 season, including the 2002 Olympics. After his return to the World Cup circuit in January 2003, Maier won eight more World Cup super-G events and his fifth season title in 2004. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway is second on the list with 15 wins in World Cup super-G races, Pirmin Zurbriggen third with his 10 wins. Svindal won Olympic gold in 2010 and his fifth season title in 2014, while Zurbriggen won four consecutive season titles (1987–90) and the first world championship in 1987. Another notable specialist was Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway, a triple"
"Austrians as the only multiple double-winners; Toni Sailer twice (1956–57), and Franz Klammer three consecutive (1975–77). The others are Christian Pravda of Austria (1954), Jean-Claude Killy of France (1967), Karl Schranz of Austria (1969), Roland Collombin of Switzerland (1974), Ken Read of Canada (1980), Franz Heinzer of Switzerland (1992), and Stephan Eberharter of Austria (2002). At the 1962 World Championships in Chamonix, France, Périllat took second in the slalom. Four years later at Portillo, Chile in 1966, he won the world championship in the giant slalom and again took the silver in the slalom. While most of his success came"
"International Master title in 1962, and the Grandmaster title in 1964. A prolific tournament player, he participated in hundreds of events during the 1960s and 1970s, his most active period. Although his results were very mixed, they included first or second place at a number of tournaments; principally, second equal at Sochi 1964 (Chigorin Memorial), first at Rovigo 1966, first at San Benedetto del Tronto 1966, first equal at Paris 1967/8, first at Zagreb 1969, second equal at Netanya 1969, first equal at Bad Pyrmont 1970, second at Reggio Emilia 1971/2, first at Firenze 1972, second equal at Zagreb 1972,"
"Ivan Lawler Ivan Lawler (born 19 November 1966) is a British marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, winning five gold and two silver medals at the canoe marathon world championships. He also competed in canoe sprint, and won two medals in the K-2 10000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (1990) and a silver (K-2 10000 m: 1989). His world championship record makes him Great Britain's best ever athlete in the sport, and many consider him to be the world's best, especially since he spanned both disciplines of"