Continental Speedway Final
# Continental Speedway Final

The Continental Final was a Motorcycle speedway Final sanctioned by the FIM as the qualifying round for the Speedway World Championship between 1976 and 2000.

From 1952-1975 it acted as the final qualifier for the Championship Round or European Final but from 1976-1990 it was upgraded in stature and acted as a final qualifier for the World Championship Final itself. It was not held from 1991-1994 and then from 1995-2001 it acted as a final qualifier for the Speedway Grand Prix or Grand Prix Challenge.

## Editions

| Year | Venue | Winner | Runner-up | 3rd place |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1952 | Falköping | Rune Sörmander | Olle Nygren | Stig Pramberg |
| 1953 | Kumla | Basse Hveem | Olle Nygren | Dan Forsberg |
| 1954 | Linköping | Ove Fundin | Rune Sörmander | Sune Karlsson |
| 1955 | Abensberg | Fritz Dirtl | Josef Kamper | Georg Dunebornn |
| 1956 | Oberhausen | Kjell Carlsson | Josef Seidl | Andrzej Krzesiński |
| 1957 | Vienna | Josef Hofmeister | Josef Seidl | Stanisław Tkocz |
| 1958 | Oberhausen | Joel Jansson | Josef Hofmeister | Josef Seidl |
| 1959 | Munich | Josef Hofmeister | Björn Knutsson | Mieczysław Połukard |
| 1960 | Vienna | Josef Hofmeister | Henryk Żyto | Marian Kaiser |
| 1961 | Slaný | Florian Kapała | Igor Plekhanov | Stanisław Tkocz |
| 1962 | Wrocław | Marian Kaiser | Paweł Waloszek | Luboš Tomíček Sr. |
| 1963 | Wrocław | Stanisław Tkocz | Boris Samorodov | Antonín Kasper Sr. |
| 1964 | Slaný | Igor Plekhanov | Jaroslav Volf | Boris Samorodov |
| 1965 | Wrocław | Andrzej Wyglenda | Igor Plekhanov | Andrzej Pogorzelski |
| 1966 | Slaný | Andrzej Pogorzelski | Antoni Woryna | Konstantyn Pociejkowicz |
| 1967 | Kempten | Andrzej Wyglenda | Jerzy Trzeszkowski | Igor Plekhanov |
| 1968 | Slaný | Gennady Kurilenko | Paweł Waloszek | Vladimir Smirnov |
| 1969 | Ufa | Antoni Woryna | Andrzej Wyglenda | Edward Jancarz |
| 1970 | Abensberg | Hans Jürgen Fritz | Valeri Klementiev | Zdenek Majstr |
| 1971 | Slaný | Henryk Glücklich | Jan Mucha | Gennady Kurilenko |
| 1972 | Cherkessk | Viktor Trofimov | Viktor Kalmykov | Anatoly Kuzmin |
| 1973 | Leningrad | Valery Gordeev | Grigory Khlinovsky | Vladimir Zapleshny |
| 1974 | Tolyatti | Vladimir Gordeev | Mikhail Starostin | Zenon Plech |
| 1975 | Leningrad | Edward Jancarz | Valery Gordeev | Viktor Kalmykov |
| 1976 | Leningrad | Egon Müller | Jiří Štancl | Valery Gordeev |
| 1977 | Tolyatti | Jan Verner | Egon Müller | Jiří Štancl |
| 1978 | Prague | Hans Wassermann | Jiří Štancl | Marek Cieślak |
| 1979 | Pöcking | Christoph Betzl | Mikhail Starostin | Zdeněk Kudrna |
| 1980 | Lonigo | Zenon Plech | Jiří Štancl | Aleš Dryml Sr. |
| 1981 | Prague | Egon Müller | Aleš Dryml Sr. | Edward Jancarz |
| 1982 | Leszno | Jiří Štancl | Edward Jancarz | Václav Verner |
| 1983 | Rybnik | Zenon Plech | Egon Müller | Jiří Štancl |
| 1984 | Rovno | Egon Müller | Karl Maier | Jiří Štancl |
| 1985 | Pöcking | Egon Müller | Armando Castagna | Zoltán Adorján |
| 1986 | Wiener Neustadt | Viktor Kuznetsov | Antonín Kasper Jr. | Armando Castagna |
| 1987 | Lonigo | Gerd Riss | Roman Jankowski | Antonín Kasper Jr. |
| 1988 | Leszno | Zenon Kasprzak | Antal Kocso | Roman Jankowski |
| 1989 | Debrecen | Zoltán Adorján | Karl Maier | Roman Matoušek |
| 1990 | Norden | Gerd Riss | Zoltán Adorján | Armando Castagna |
| 1991-1994 | not held | not held | not held | not held |
| 1995 | Miskolc | Zoltán Adorján | Stefano Alfonso | Antonín Kasper Jr. |
| 1996 | Abensberg | Tomasz Gollob | Sławomir Drabik | Zoltán Adorján |
| 1997 | Lonigo | Armando Castagna | Zoltán Adorján | Tomáš Topinka |
| 1998 | Debrecen | Antonín Kasper Jr. | Marián Jirout | Roman Povazhny |
| 1999 | Wrocław | Rafał Dobrucki | Piotr Protasiewicz | Sławomir Drabik |
| 2000 | Lonigo | Matej Ferjan | Piotr Protasiewicz | Piotr Świst |
| 2001 | Gdańsk | Sebastian Ułamek | Bohumil Brhel | Wiesław Jaguś |
