 Sergey Tarabanko at the 1978 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sergey Aleksandrovich Tarabanko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1949 (1949-08-25) (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.
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.
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.
World Final appearances
Individual Ice Speedway World Championship
- 1974 -
Nässjö - 4th - 10pts - 1975 -
Moscow - Winner - 30pts - 1976 -
Assen - Winner - 1977 -
Inzell - Winner - 1978 - Assen - Winner
- 1980 - 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