Speedway Outposts

[Dave the Mic]

There was definitely ice speedway in Ulan Bator, the largest and capital city of Mongolia. It would have been in the early 80's, although I would have to check exact dates. Mongolian riders even raced in the ice speedway world championships at around the same time. I have records of this somewhere, but have just moved house and so they are probably boxed! I'll try and find them and provide more detail.

 

I think riders were something like Chinbat, Batsengel and Erkembayar (spelling?)

 

I'm sure there was ice speedway in Kazakhstan in the 90's too.

Edited March 26, 2014 by Dave the Mic

[Mr Ore]

I'm sure there was ice speedway in Kazakhstan in the 90's too.

There was definitely a round of the World Championships, The Team Final, in 1989 held in Alma ata (Now called Almaty) which was the capital city at the time. I read about it in a soccer magazine which had photos of local football grounds under snow accompanying the article. At that time it was part of the USSR. I later saw a Kazak team (post Soviet Union) finish third in Frankfurt am Main in 1995 (Stanislav Kuznetsov 28(12+16), Vladimir Cheblakov 9(5+4), Nail Galiakberov 0(0+0)) 37) having seen each of these riders race under the Hammer and Sickle of USSR pre 90s. I believe they were third the following year too before finance saw their federation pull the plug on international competition.