Rivne Speedway or Rivne City Sports and Technical Club, is a Ukrainian

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team based in

Rivne Rivne ( ; , ) is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the Rivne Raion (district) within the oblast.

Stadium

Rivne Speedway Stadium is located at Volodymyr Stelmakh St, 3, in Rivne. Its capacity is 15,000 and the track is 360 metres in circumference.

History

The club began league speedway in 1962, as part of the inaugural Soviet Union Championship and won the bronze medal during the first year of competition. During the initial 18 years of league competition, the team used the name Raduga Rivne, the origins of which were either a name chosen by the Soviet authorities to promote companies (which was common practice for sports teams at the time) or simply the name chosen by the club translating as Rainbow. However, the team won another bronze medal during that period in 1966. The team did not compete in the league during 1979 but returned in 1980, racing as Signal Rivne. The stadium that the club were based at underwent a significant reconstruction in 1983, which propelled the team to success, helping them win the championship of the Soviet Union for three consecutive years from 1985 to 1987. It was not until the fall of

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in the

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countries, that clubs began to choose names of their own, Signal Rivne became Fantastic Rivne and they won the final championship under the Soviet Union flag. Following the

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the team were left in limbo due to the lack of a serious team competition in Ukraine but did race in the now defunct

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under various names. It was not until 2003 that they were accepted into the Russian Team Speedway Championship, competing as Ukraine Rivne until the end of the 2006 season. The team withdrew from the Russian leagues to join the

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. In 2000, the First Division was r ...

but struggled financially to survive in the 2.Liga. They did however win the

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. Since 2011, the team have sporadically raced, participating in events such as the Speedway Friendship Cup, featuring clubs from Europe. Following the

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in February 2022, the future of the club is unknown.

Results

Champions' Cup competition *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

- 6th place (as SC Rivne) *

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

- 7th place (as SC Rivne) *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

- 7th place (as Signal Rivne) *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

- 6th place (as Tekhnik Rivne) *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

- 8th place (as SK Trofimov) *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

- 6th place (as SK Rivne) *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

- =6th place (as Ukraina Rivne) *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

- =9th place (as Ukraina Rivne) *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

- champions (as Kaskad Rivne) Polish Speedway Championship *

- 3rd in 2.Liga *

- 5th in 2.Liga *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

- 3rd in 2.Liga *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

- 6th in 2.Liga

References

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