Sergey Tarabanko
| File:Sergey Tarabanko 1978.jpg Sergey Tarabanko at the 1978 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sergey Aleksandrovich Tarabanko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1949 (age 75) Moscow, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Ice speedway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sergey Aleksandrovich Tarabanko (Russian: Сергей Александрович Тарабанько, born 25 August 1949) is a retired Russian ice speedway rider who won seven world titles between 1975 and 1981.[1][2]
Biography
Tarabanko was born in Moscow, but was soon moved to Kirovsk and then Angarsk, where he started training in cross-country motorcycle racing. After working as a turner at a factory, between 1968 and 1972 he served in the army. He won four consecutive World Ice Championships from 1975 to 1978.[3][4] In 1975 he graduated from the University of Pedagogy in Chita. He then worked as a test driver for a Jawa Motors factory in Novosibirsk, and in 1977 moved to Moscow to coach motorcycle racers. He participated in the 1988 Winter Olympics as a driver of the Soviet Olympic team and later worked as the head of the CSKA racing team in Moscow.[5]
World Final appearances
Individual Ice Speedway World Championship
- 1974 - Sweden Nässjö - 4th - 10pts
- 1975 - Soviet Union Moscow - Winner - 30pts
- 1976 - Netherlands Assen - Winner
- 1977 - West Germany Inzell - Winner
- 1978 - Netherlands Assen - Winner
- 1980 - Soviet Union Kalinin - 2nd
References
- ↑ Ice Speedway History In Figures. speedway.org
- ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). The A-Z of Sport. Little, Brown. p. 531. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ↑ "Watch young racer Ian go". Reading Evening Post. 5 March 1977. Retrieved 5 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "FIM ice Racing/ Speedway European & World Championships" (PDF). Motorsport Top 20. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ↑ Тарабанько Сергей Александрович Archived 30 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. angarsk-goradm.ru