Rivne Speedway Stadium

Stadium in Rivne, Ukraine

50°36′19″N 26°16′39″E / 50.60528°N 26.27750°E / 50.60528; 26.27750Capacity15,000Opened24 May 1959OvalLength(360 metres) 0.360 kmRace lap record65.18 sec (Jan Kvěch, , 2019)

Rivne Speedway Stadium or Rivenenskyy Mototrek is a motorcycle speedway stadium in the south east of Rivne. It is located on the Volodymyr Stelmakh Street.^[1] The speedway club Rivne Speedway are based at the track.^[2]^[3]

History

The stadium opened on 24 May 1959 as the Rivne Technical Sports Stadium. Yuri Korkhov, the head of DOSAAF at the time, was instrumental in overseeing the project after 20 hectares of land were identified for the build.^[1]

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.^[4]

The venue has hosted significant speedway events including a qualifying round of the Speedway World Championship in 1962^[5]^[6] and 1991.

The team Rivne Speedway raced in the Team Speedway Polish Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2008^[7] and the stadium has continued to hold various international meetings.

Major meetings

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 71.8 sec
22 July 1984 Zenon Plech 70.4 sec
13 June 1987 Zaytun Gafurov 69.0 sec
11 August 1991 Roman Matoušek 68.4 sec
11 August 1991 Mikael Blixt 68.2 sec
11 August 1991 Jimmy Nilsen 67.4 sec
11 August 1991 Billy Hamill 66.6 sec
6 May 2009 Simon Vlasov 66.42 sec
12 May 2009 Vladimir Dubinin 66.31 sec
22 September 2012 Andrey Karpov 65.88 sec
2019 Jan Kvěch 65.18 sec

References

^ ^a ^b "Speedway Club". Rivne Speedway 1959. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
^ "Speedway Veterans Open Cup". Mogul Oil. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
^ "Rovno - Ukraine". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
^ "Soviet Union & Russian Team Championship". Speedway Fansite. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
^ "1962 World Championship". Metal Speedway. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
^ "1962 World Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
^ "HISTORICAL RESULTS 1948-2013". Speedway History. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
^ "European U21 Individual Speedway Championship". FIM. Retrieved 24 January 2024.