Valeri Klementiev
Appearance
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Born | 5 August 1946 Lipetsk, Soviet Union |
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Died | 7 April 1971 Zelenokumsk, Soviet Union | (aged 24)
Nationality | Russian |
Career history | |
Soviet Union | |
1968–1970 | Tbilisi |
Individual honours | |
1969 | Speedway World Championship finalist |
1969 | European Champion |
1969 | Soviet championship silver |
Valeri Klementiev (5 August 1946 – 7 April 1971) was an international speedway rider from the Soviet Union.[1]
Speedway career
[edit]Klementiev became a European Champion, after winning the gold medal at the 1969 European Final. He also reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1969 Individual Speedway World Championship.[2]
Klemetiev won the silver medal at the Soviet Union championship in 1969[3] and also won the European final in 1969.
He was killed at a young age during a race on 7 April 1971 in Russia.[4]
World final appearances
[edit]Individual World Championship
[edit]- 1969 –
London, Wembley Stadium – 13th – 4pts
- 1970 -
Wroclaw, Olympic Stadium - 6th - 8pts
World Team Cup
[edit]- 1969 -
Rybnik, Rybnik Municipal Stadium (with Viktor Trofimov / Vladimir Smirnov / Gennady Kurilenko / Yury Dubinin) - 3rd - 23pts (5)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Individual USRR Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
- ^ "Motorsport Memoriam". Motorsport Memoriam. Retrieved 28 March 2024.