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IVAN MAUGER OBE MBE
9 x World Champion: Speedway and LongTrack

 DECEMBER 1999:   

Voted Speedway’s Millennium Man  
as the greatest ever speedway rider of the 20th Century

  The Millennium Man poll was conducted by two British magazines, 
The Speedway Star Weekly Magazine, and the
World Vintage Speedway Magazine.  
The Speedway Star and the World Vintage Speedway Magazine
were assisted by magazines in 34 countries.

  CAREER DETAILS

  WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS  

WORLD CHAMPION  
6 x individual speedway      1968-69-70-72-77-79  
3 x individual long track  1971-72-76  
 2 x world pairs   1969-70  
 4 x world teams  1968-71-72-79  

SILVER MEDALLIST
 3 x individual speedway  1971-73-74  
2 x individual long track  1974-75  
4 x world pairs  1971-72-78-81  
2 x world teams      1969-70  

BRONZE MEDALLIST   
1 x individual speedway   1967  
 2 x world pairs   1974-84  

FOURTH PLACE
 3 x individual speedway  1966-75-76  
1 x individual long track  1978  
1 x world pairs          1985  
2 x world teams   1966-67  

MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS  

CHAMPION 

4 x European champion 1966-70-71-75  
4 x British champion 1968-70-71-72
2 x British-Nordic champion 1968-71  
1 x Intercontinental champ. 1975  
6 x British semi final winner 1968-69-70-71-72-73  

SILVER MEDALLIST   

1 x European                       1973
3 x British-Nordic 1966-70-74  
4 x British   1966-67-69-73  

BRONZE MEDALLIST   
1 x European 1974
1 x Commonwealth                   1980  
AWARDED MBE  1975  
AWARDED OBE   1989

AWARDED MEDAILLE D’OR/GOLD MEDAL 1987  

Only 7 have been awarded by Federation Internationale
De Motocyclisme since 1904

AWARDED HONORARY CITIZEN OF CITY OF GNIESZNO POLAND 1985  

NEW ZEALAND SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR 1977-79

INDUCTED IN NEW ZEALAND SPORTS
HALL OF FAME 1990

HONORARY SPORTS AMBASSADOR FOR
NEW ZEALAND 1985

CANTERBURY SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR
1970, 1971, 1972

BRITISH MOTORCYCLE NEWS
"MAN OF THE DECADE" WINNER 1970 - 1980

BRITISH SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR  
4th 1969, 3rd 1970, 4th 1971, 2nd 1972, 3rd 1973

BBC TV SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR  
Runner Up 1970-1972

 SUBJECT OF OFFICIAL TELEVISION 
DOCUMENTARY FILMS:  

1976 “Flying Kiwi” produced by British Television

1987 “Circuits of Gold” produced by 
New Zealand National Film Unit

2000 “Man of the Millennium” produced by
 Re-run Video UK  

Additional unofficial television documentary films produced 
in Poland and Czechoslovakia

OFFICIAL JAWA FACTORY RIDER   1969 to 1982

PATRON   Mosgiel and district Motor Cycle Club

PATRON  New Zealand National Motorcycle Museum

PRESIDENT Australian Veteran Riders Association

Ivan represented N.Z. and International Competitors at F.I.M. Congress (World Authority) in Madrid/SPAIN, Ljubljana/YUGOSLAVIA, London/ENGLAND, Berlin/GERMANY, Brugrs/BELGIUM, Caracas/VENEZUELA, Poznan/POLAND, Montreux/SWITZERLAND, MALTA, Tokyo/JAPAN, Munich/GERMANY

IVAN MAUGER HOLDS THE FOLLOWING 
WORLD RECORDS:  

  • Most individual World Championships – 9

  • 6 x Speedway – 3 x Long Track

  • First person to win World Speedway and World Long Track in same year  

  • Most world final qualification – 52  

  • Most individual world speedway wins – 6

  • Only person to win 3 individual world titles in succession.  
 

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