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Mikhail Leontievich Starostin (born 24 February 1955) is a former international speedway rider from the Soviet Union.

Speedway career

Starostin holds the record for Russian National Championships, winning the title seven times.

In addition, he won the Soviet Union Individual Speedway Championship five times during the period from 1979 until 1990.

He reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1979 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1982 Individual Speedway World Championship. He toured the United Kingdom in 1990 as part of the Russia national team.

World final appearances

Individual World Championship

• 1979 – Chorzów, Silesian Stadium – 13th – 3pts
• 1982 – Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum – 16th – 0pts

World Team Cup

• 1981 – Olching, Speedway Stadion Olching (with Valery Gordeev / Viktor Kuznetsov / Nikolay Kornev / Anatoly Maksimov) – 4th – 3pts (0)

References

1. "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
2. "Russian Individual Speedway Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
3. "Individual USRR Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
4. Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
5. "In-form Collins can regain world crown". Birmingham Daily Post. 31 August 1979. Retrieved 24 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. "WORLD FINALS 1936-1994" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
7. "The Russians are coming". Peterborough Herald & Post. 26 April 1990. Retrieved 5 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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