Rivne Speedway Stadium or Rivenenskyy Mototrek is a

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 ...

stadium in the south east of

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.

. It is located on the Volodymyr Stelmakh Street. The speedway club Rivne Speedway are based at the track.

History

The stadium opened on 24 May 1959 as the Rivne Technical Sports Stadium. Yuri Korkhov, the head of

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at the time, was instrumental in overseeing the project after 20 hectares of land were identified for the build. In September 1974, a major renovation took place and in 1983, following several requests from the speedway management to Moscow, a complete reconstruction of the Rivne stadium took place. The new track propelled the speedway team to success, helping them win the championship of the Soviet Union for three consecutive years from 1985 to 1987. The venue has hosted significant speedway events including a qualifying round of the

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in 1962 and 1991. The team Rivne Speedway raced in 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 ...

in 2005, 2006 and 2008 and the stadium has continued to hold various international meetings.

Major meetings

* 1962 World Championship qualifier * 1986 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship * 1991 World Championship qualifier *

2006 European Pairs Speedway Championship The 2006 European Pairs Speedway Championship was the third edition of the European Pairs Speedway Championship. The final was held in Lendava, Slovenia on 5 August. Poland won their second title. Semifinal 1 * Rivne Speedway Stadium, Rivne * M ...

2012 European Pairs Speedway Championship The 2012 European Pairs Speedway Championship was the ninth edition of the European Pairs Speedway Championship. The final was held in Rivne Speedway Stadium, Rivne, Ukraine on 22 September. Ukraine won their first title. Calendar Rules *Sem ...

* 2019 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship

Track records

*18 September 1983 Viktor Kuznetsov 73.2 sec *18 September 1983 Viktor Kuznetsov 73.0 sec *22 October 1983 Airat Faizullin 72.9 sec *22 October 1983 Mikhail Starostin 72.8 sec *23 October 1983 Vladimir Smirnov 72.5 sec *23 October 1983 Mikhail Starostin 72.4 sec *22 July 1984

Jiří Štancl Jiří Štancl (born 18 November 1949) is a Czech former international motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 39 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Career Štancl was born on 18 November 1949 in Prague, Czechoslov ...

71.8 sec *22 July 1984

Zenon Plech Zenon Plech (1 January 1953 – 25 November 2020) was a Polish international motorcycle speedway rider. He finished third in the Speedway World Championship in 1973 and as the runner-up in 1979. He earned 76 international caps for the Poland nat ...

70.4 sec *13 June 1987 Zaytun Gafurov 69.0 sec *11 August 1991

Roman Matoušek Roman Matoušek (23 May 1964 – 8 January 2020) was a Czechs, Czech Motorcycle speedway, speedway rider. He earned 26 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Speedway career Matoušek was the champion of the Czechos ...

68.4 sec *11 August 1991

Mikael Blixt Mikael Blixt (born 8 August 1964) is a former speedway rider from Sweden. He earned 18 caps for the Sweden national speedway team. Speedway career Blixt rode in the top tier of British Speedway during the 1982 British League season, riding f ...

68.2 sec *11 August 1991

Jimmy Nilsen Jimmy Oyvind Nilsen (born 16 November 1966) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Sweden. He earned 53 international caps for the Sweden national speedway team. Career Nilsen came to prominence in 1984, when he won the Swe ...

67.4 sec *11 August 1991

Billy Hamill William Gordon Hamill (born 23 May 1970) is an American international motorcycle speedway rider. He is a former Speedway World Champion, winning the title in 1996 and earned 29 caps for the United States national speedway team. Career Earl ...

66.6 sec *6 May 2009

Simon Vlasov Simon Vladimirovich Vlasov (born 10 January 1981) is a former Russian international motorcycle speedway rider. Career Vlasov represented the Russia national speedway team at the 2003 Speedway World Cup, where the team reached the race-off ev ...

66.42 sec *12 May 2009 Vladimir Dubinin 66.31 sec *22 September 2012

Andrey Karpov Andriy Karpov (born 16 January 1987) also spelt Andriej Karpov is a motorcycle speedway rider from Ukraine. Career Karpov came to prominence when competing the Polish leagues, initially for the Ukrainian teams in Polish Speedway Second Leag ...

65.88 sec *2019

Jan Kvěch Jan Kvěch (born 18 October 2001) is a Czech international speedway rider. He is a member of the Czech Republic national speedway team. Career Kvěch won the bronze medal at the Czech Republic Championship in 2019. He qualified for the 20 ...

65.18 sec

References

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