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Gennady Kurilenko (c. 1944–2013) was an international speedway rider from Ukraine (part of the Soviet Union at the time).




Speedway career


Kurilenko reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1964 Individual Speedway World Championship.
Kurilenko was the champion of the Soviet Union, winning the title in 1970. He had previously won the Continental Speedway final in 1968.
In 1964, he was part of the Soviet Union team that toured Britain for the first time and was a metal craftsman by trade at the time and later that year he reached his first world final; the 1964 Individual Speedway World Championship, held on 11 September at the Ullevi in Sweden. In 1965 he toured the United Kingdom as part of the Soviet Union national team again.




World final appearances






= Individual World Championship

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1964 – Gothenburg, Ullevi – 8th – 7pts
1968 - Gothenburg, Ullevi - 4th - 11pts + 2pts
1970 - Wroclaw, Olympic Stadium - 14th - 2pts




= World Team Cup

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1964 - Abensberg, Abensberg Stadion (with Boris Samorodov / Igor Plekhanov / Yuri Chekranov) - 2nd - 25pts (8)
1965 - Kempten (with Yuri Chekranov / Igor Plekhanov / Vladimir Sokolov / Viktor Trofimov) - 4th - 7pts (2)
1969 - Rybnik, Rybnik Municipal Stadium (with Viktor Trofimov / Vladimir Smirnov / Valeri Klementiev / Yury Dubinin) - 3rd - 23pts (8)




References

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• Daftar Pahlawan Uni Soviet (K)
• Gennady Kurilenko
• Kurylenko
• Yuri Chekranov
• Continental Speedway final
• Soviet Union national speedway team
• Igor Plekhanov
• Vladimir Sokolov (speedway rider)
• Viktor Trofimov
• Yury Dubinin (speedway rider)
• 1972 Speedway World Team Cup