| 1968 World Championship - British Semi-Final | Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield | 27th June | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rider | Club | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Tot | |
| 1. Jim Airey | Wolv | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | (res) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. Bob Andrews | Crad | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. Bill Andrew | Poole | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
| 4. Nigel Boocock | Cov | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 4th | |||||||||||||||
| 5. Barry Briggs | Swin | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 1ST | |||||||||||||||
| 6. Mike Broadbanks | Swin | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 5th | |||||||||||||||
| 7. Bert Harkins | Coat | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8. Norman Hunter | W'Ham | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
| 9. Chris Julian | Crad | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10. Jim McMillan | Glas | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8th | |||||||||||||||
| 11. Colin Pratt | Hack | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 12. Tommy Roper | B'Vue | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| 13. Arnold Haley | Shef | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 14. Jimmy Squibb | Exe | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 15. Peter Vandenberg | Wolv | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6th | |||||||||||||||
| 16. Dave Younghusband | H'fax | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7th | |||||||||||||||
| Les McGillivary (r) | Hack | top eight qualify | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Jimmy Gooch (r) | Newp | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track Record 67.6 Featherby ('64) & Mauger ('66) |
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 69.8 | 70.0 | 69.4 | 71.6 | 68.8 | 70.6 | 70.0 | 70.6 | 69.2 | 69.4 | 70.4 | 69.6 | 71.2 | 70.4 | 69.0 | 70.6 | 71.2 | 71.2 | 70.8 | 71.0 |
Barry Briggs and
Nigel Boocock had both crashed at Wolverhampton the week before in the Great
Britain v Sweden test match. Barry suffered a broken thumb while Nigel had his
broken collar-bone strapped up and they both battled on to keep their World
Championship hopes alive.
The first semi-final at Poole had been rained off the night before but was re-scheduled for 2nd July and the qualifyers were; Ivan Mauger(14), Martin Ashby(14), Terry Betts(12), Charlie Monk(10), Ray Wilson(10), Eric Boocock(9), Trevor Hedge(9), Geoff Mudge(9), res Reg Luckhurst(8).
It was a long road to the World final in Gothenberg. Tonight's qualifyers still had to negotiate the British final (Wimbledon), the British-European (West Ham) and then the European final (Wroclaw)...
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