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then looked like staging the venue but wanted the NZSCB and the New
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Zealand and Australia each year. To qualify for the Australasian Final, NZ riders had to finish in the top 8 of their national championship while the Australian riders qualified through a series of Zone Finals held throughout the country. Only one rider was
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emerging as the winner. The last Final was held at the
Liverpool City Raceway on 28 February 1981. The Final winner was six time World Champion Ivan Mauger.
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on the original 440 metres (480 yd) D-shaped track and not the 300 metres (330 yd)
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championships had then gone on to qualify through the British qualifying rounds.
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World Champion, Ivan Mauger was seeded straight to the
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24:Final sanctioned by the
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32:between 1976 and 1981.
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111:Intercontinental Final
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96:Australian Champion
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1065:World (FIM)
1024:Continental
829:New Zealand
562:Ivan Mauger
513:John Titman
437:John Titman
425:Steve Koppe
376:John Titman
364:Mick McKeon
291:Ivan Mauger
89:Ivan Mauger
62:New Zealand
50:New Zealand
1104:References
1070:FIM Europe
978:Individual
969:Long track
959:Individual
957:European:
948:Individual
709:Individual
644:Grand Prix
640:Individual
586:Larry Ross
525:Larry Ross
303:Phil Crump
254:Phil Crump
158:Wellington
135:Wellington
85:bike track
58:Australian
46:Australian
878:USA (SRA)
874:USA (AMA)
755:Australia
750:Argentina
679:Team U-21
668:World Cup
483:Templeton
464:3rd place
459:Runner-up
193:3rd place
188:Runner-up
1129:Category
1082:See also
1044:Overseas
1029:Estonian
859:Slovenia
849:Romanian
625:speedway
395:Adelaide
334:Auckland
212:Auckland
146:Brisbane
117:and the
107:reigning
73:Auckland
924:Hungary
894:Denmark
814:Hungary
785:Finland
775:Denmark
765:Austria
454:Winners
183:Winners
165:Winners
36:History
1039:Nordic
909:Sweden
904:Poland
864:Sweden
839:Poland
834:Norway
824:Latvia
790:France
702:Europe
544:Sydney
273:Sydney
129:Demise
81:Sydney
52:based
20:was a
819:Italy
806:) / (
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654:Pairs
633:World
449:Venue
178:Venue
983:Team
953:Team
868:U-21
843:U-21
808:U-19
804:U-21
779:U-21
759:U-21
719:Team
532:1981
471:1980
444:Year
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