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The Anatoly Stepanov Stadium formerly the Stroitel Stadium is a 15,000-capacity
The speedway team Mega Lada Togliatti competed in the
Motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...
and Ice speedway
Ice speedway is a developed form of motorcycle speedway racing, featuring racing on frozen surfaces. The sport uses bikes enhanced for the terrain. Participants can compete at international level.
Outline
The bikes race counterclockwise arou ...
in Tolyatti
Tolyatti or Togliatti ( , ; , ), known before 1964 as Stavropol, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the largest city in Russia which is neither the administrative center of a federal subjects of Rus ...
, Russia. It is the home track of the Russian speedway team called the Mega Lada Togliatti.
History
The stadium opened in 1963. In 2019, the stadium hosted the2019 Speedway of Nations
The 2019 Speedway of Nations was the second FIM Speedway of Nations. The competition consisted of two race-off events and a two-legged final. The event was won by Russia for the second consecutive year. They beat Poland in the Grand Final with Au ...
(the World Cup of speedway). In 2021, the stadium hosted the Speedway World Championship round known as the Speedway Grand Prix of Russia
The Speedway Grand Prix of Russia is a speedway event that is a part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. It was introduced in 2021 Speedway Grand Prix. The first staging was planned for 28 August 2021 at the Anatoly Stepanov Stadium in Tolyatt ...
in 2021 and was due to be a regular venue until the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
. The speedway track has a circumference of 353 metres.
Since 2022, the stadium has been restricted to domestic use following the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme
The International Motorcycling Federation (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) or (FIM) is the global governing/sanctioning body of motorcycle racing. It represents 123 national motorcycle federations that are divided into six continent ...
ban on Russian motorcycle riders, teams, officials, and competitions, as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.
Name
The stadium is named after the deputy of the Duma of Samara Oblast and president of the sports club Mega-Lada Anatoly Alexeyevich Stepanov, who was murdered in 2009.
Mega Lada Togliatti
The speedway team Mega Lada Togliatti competed in the European Speedway Club Champions' Cup
The European Speedway Club Champions' Cup was an annual speedway event held in different countries and organised by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) from 1998 to 2011.
The competition involved mainly Eastern European countries. Only Poland ...
from 1999 and from 2002 until 2008. They won the event a record four times. They also hold the record number of wins for the Russian Team Speedway Championship.
See also
*Speedway Grand Prix of Russia
The Speedway Grand Prix of Russia is a speedway event that is a part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. It was introduced in 2021 Speedway Grand Prix. The first staging was planned for 28 August 2021 at the Anatoly Stepanov Stadium in Tolyatt ...
References
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