Gennady Kurilenko
Gennady Kurilenko was a Ukrainian speedway rider. He represented the Soviet Union.
Speedway career
Kurilenko reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1964 [Individual Speedway World Championship] by virtue of qualifying through the Continenetal rounds at Zagreb, Lviv and Slaný.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
- 1964 – Gothenburg, Ullevi – 8th – 7pts
- 1968 – Gothenburg, Ullevi - 4th - 11pts + 2pts
- 1970 – Wrocław, Olympic [Stadium (Wrocław)|Olympic Stadium] - 14th - 2pts
World Team Cup
- 1964 Speedway World [Team Cup|1964] – Abensberg, Abensberg Stadion - 2nd - 25pts
- 1965 – Kempten - 4th - 7pts
- 1969 – Rybnik, Rybnik Stadium - 3rd - 23pts