1970 World Championship

1970 World Championship

Jan Mucha British qualifications consisted of 32 rounds where riders raced in 3 rounds rach. The top 32 riders then raced in the British Semi Finals with the top 8 from each event going throught to the final. The top 8 then progressed to the British Nordic Final. They were joined by 8 riders from the Scandinavian Final. Swedish riders contested 4 qualifying rounds with 8 riders from each meeting going to the Semi finals. 4 riders from each of these meetings progressed into the Scandinavian Final where they were joined by rider from Nrway, Denmark and Finland. The Continental rounds were made up of 4 quarter finals with 8 riders from each moving into the semi finals then the top 16 racing in the Continental Final with the top 8 qualying for the European Final The Polish qualification rounds consisted of 2 groups of 16 riders competing in 3 rounds. The top 8 riders from group A then faced the bottom 8 riders from Group B and the Top 8 from group B faced the bottom 8 from group A in 3 more qualification rounds. The top 16 riders 8 from each group then raced in 8 rounds with the top 6 riders qualifying for the Programme Gallery World Final 6 September 1970, Wroclaw, Poland European Final 20/7 Leningrad USSR British Nordic Final Continental Final 1/7 Coventry (GB) 2/6 Abensberg (WG) British Final Scandinavia Continental SF 9/6 West Ham 4/6 Eskilstuna 6/6 Pardubice (CZE) 7/7 Bydgozcz (POL) British SF Swedish SF Continental QF 13/5 Leicester 21/5 Sheffield Borås 25/5 Göteborg 28/5 9/5 Meissen (EG) 10/5 Miskolc (HUN) 10/5 Graz (AUT) 10/5 Zagreb (YUG) British QR Swedish QR 25/4 Coventry 25/4 King's Lynn 25/4 Belle Vue 27/4 Newcastle, 28/4 Exeter 28/4 West Ham 28/4 Leicester 29/4 Poole 30/4 Wimbledon 30/4 Sheffield 30/4 Oxford 1/5 Wolverhampton 1/5 Hackney 1/5 Glasgow 1/5 Newport 2/5 Swindon 2/5 Halifax 2/5 Cradley Heath 13/5 Coventry 26/4 Malilla 1/5 Visby 3/5 Vetlanda 22/5 Linköping Poland Golden Helmet 14/6 Leszno 19/6 Swietochlowice 26/6 Rybnik 3/7 Bydgoszcz 10/7 Gorzów Wlkp. 31/7 Opole 7/8 Wroclaw 9/10 Gdansk Poland Elimination C Poland Elimination D 22/5 Bydgoszcz 24/5 Wroclaw 3/6 Gorzów Wlkp 22/5 Gdansk 24/5 Czestochowa 28/5 Lódz Poland Elimination A Poland Elimination B 3/4 Gdansk 7/5 Swietochlowice 5/5 Opole 8/5 Torun 13/5 Lublin 15/5 Tarnów