# Continental Speedway final

The Continental final was a Motorcycle speedway final sanctioned by the FIM as the qualifying round for the Speedway World Championship between 1976 and 2000.
From 1952 to 1975 it acted as the final qualifier for the Championship round or European final but from 1976 to 1990 it was upgraded in stature and acted as a final qualifier for the World Championship final itself. It was not held from 1991 to 1994 and then from 1995 to 2001 it acted as a final qualifier for the Speedway Grand Prix or Grand Prix Challenge.

## Editions

| Year | Venue | Winner | Runner-up | 3rd place |
| 1952 | Falköping | Rune Sörmander | Olle Nygren | Stig Pramberg |
| 1953 | Kumla | Basse Hveem | Olle Nygren | Dan Forsberg |
| 1954 | Linköping | Ove Fundin | Rune Sörmander | Sune Karlsson |
| 1955 | Abensberg | Fritz Dirtl | Josef Kamper | Georg Duneborn |
| 1956 | Oberhausen | Kjell Carlsson | Josef Seidl | Andrzej Krzesiński |
| 1957 | Vienna | Josef Hofmeister | Josef Seidl | Stanisław Tkocz |
| 1958 | Oberhausen | Joel Jansson | Josef Hofmeister | Josef Seidl |
| 1959 | Munich | Josef Hofmeister | Björn Knutson | Mieczysław Połukard |
| 1960 | Vienna | Josef Hofmeister | Henryk Żyto | Marian Kaiser |
| 1961 | Slaný | Florian Kapała | Igor Plekhanov | Stanisław Tkocz |
| 1962 | Wrocław | Marian Kaiser | Paweł Waloszek | Luboš Tomíček Sr. |
| 1963 | Wrocław | Stanisław Tkocz | Boris Samorodov | Antonín Kasper Sr. |
| 1964 | Slaný | Igor Plekhanov | Jaroslav Volf | Boris Samorodov |
| 1965 | Wrocław | Andrzej Wyglenda | Igor Plekhanov | Andrzej Pogorzelski |
| 1966 | Slaný | Andrzej Pogorzelski | Antoni Woryna | Konstanty Pociejkewicz |
| 1967 | Kempten | Andrzej Wyglenda | Jerzy Trzeszkowski | Igor Plekhanov |
| 1968 | Slaný | Gennady Kurilenko | Paweł Waloszek | Vladimir Smirnov |
| 1969 | Ufa | Antoni Woryna | Andrzej Wyglenda | Edward Jancarz |
| 1970 | Abensberg | Hans Jürgen Fritz | Valeri Klementiev | Zdenek Majstr |
| 1971 | Slaný | Henryk Glücklich | Jan Mucha | Gennady Kurilenko |
| 1972 | Cherkessk | Viktor Trofimov | Viktor Kalmykov | Anatoly Kuzmin |
| 1973 | Leningrad | Valery Gordeev | Grigory Khlinovsky | Vladimir Zapleshny |
| 1974 | Tolyatti | Vladimir Gordeev | Mikhail Starostin | Zenon Plech |
| 1975 | Leningrad | Edward Jancarz | Valery Gordeev | Viktor Kalmykov |
| 1976 | Leningrad | Egon Müller | Jiří Štancl | Valery Gordeev |
| 1977 | Tolyatti | Jan Verner | Egon Müller | Jiří Štancl |
| 1978 | Prague | Hans Wassermann | Jiří Štancl | Marek Cieślak |
| 1979 | Pöcking | Christoph Betzl | Mikhail Starostin | Zdeněk Kudrna |
| 1980 | Lonigo | Zenon Plech | Jiří Štancl | Aleš Dryml Sr. |
| 1981 | Prague | Egon Müller | Aleš Dryml Sr. | Edward Jancarz |
| 1982 | Leszno | Jiří Štancl | Edward Jancarz | Václav Verner |
| 1983 | Rybnik | Zenon Plech | Egon Müller | Jiří Štancl |
| 1984 | Rovno | Egon Müller | Karl Maier | Jiří Štancl |
| 1985 | Pöcking | Egon Müller | Armando Castagna | Zoltán Adorján |
| 1986 | Wiener Neustadt | Viktor Kuznetsov | Antonín Kasper Jr. | Armando Castagna |
| 1987 | Lonigo | Gerd Riss | Roman Jankowski | Antonín Kasper Jr. |
| 1988 | Leszno | Zenon Kasprzak | Antal Kocso | Roman Jankowski |
| 1989 | Debrecen | Zoltán Adorján | Karl Maier | Roman Matoušek |
| 1990 | Norden | Gerd Riss | Zoltán Adorján | Armando Castagna |
| 1991–1994 | not held | not held | not held | not held |
| 1995 | Miskolc | Zoltán Adorján | Stefano Alfonso | Antonín Kasper Jr. |
| 1996 | Abensberg | Tomasz Gollob | Sławomir Drabik | Zoltán Adorján |
| 1997 | Lonigo | Armando Castagna | Zoltán Adorján | Tomáš Topinka |
| 1998 | Debrecen | Antonín Kasper Jr. | Marián Jirout | Roman Povazhny |
| 1999 | Wrocław | Rafał Dobrucki | Piotr Protasiewicz | Sławomir Drabik |
| 2000 | Lonigo | Matej Ferjan | Piotr Protasiewicz | Piotr Świst |
| 2001 | Gdańsk | Sebastian Ułamek | Bohumil Brhel | Wiesław Jaguś |