Valeri Klementiev

Soviet Union motorcycle speedway rider

Valeri Klementiev
Born5 August 1946 (1946-08-05)
Lipetsk, Soviet Union
Died7 April 1971(1971-04-07) (aged 24)
Zelenokumsk, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Career history
Soviet Union
1968–1970Tbilisi
Individual honours
1969Speedway World Championship finalist
1969European Champion
1969Soviet championship silver

Valeri Klementiev (5 August 1946 – 7 April 1971) was an international speedway rider from the Soviet Union.[1]

Speedway career

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

Individual World Championship

  • 1969 – England London, Wembley Stadium – 13th – 4pts
  • 1970 - Poland Wroclaw, Olympic Stadium - 6th - 8pts

World Team Cup

  • 1969 - Poland Rybnik, Rybnik Municipal Stadium (with Viktor Trofimov / Vladimir Smirnov / Gennady Kurilenko / Yury Dubinin) - 3rd - 23pts (5)

See also

References

  1. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  2. ^ "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Individual USRR Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Motorsport Memoriam". Motorsport Memoriam. Retrieved 28 March 2024.


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