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Mikhail Leontievich Starostin (born 24 February 1955) is a former international speedway rider from the Soviet Union.[1]
Speedway career
Starostin holds the record for Russian National Championships, winning the title seven times.[2]
In addition, he won the Soviet Union Individual Speedway Championship five times during the period from 1979 until 1990.[3][4]
He reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1979 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1982 Individual Speedway World Championship.[5]
World final appearances
Individual World Championship
- 1979 –
Chorzów, Silesian Stadium – 13th – 3pts - 1982 –
Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum – 16th – 0pts
World Team Cup
- 1981 –
Olching, Speedway Stadion Olching (with Valery Gordeev / Viktor Kuznetsov / Nikolay Kornev / Anatoly Maksimov) – 4th – 3pts (0)
References
- ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Russian Individual Speedway Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "Individual USRR Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
- ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
- ^ "WORLD FINALS 1936-1994" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
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