Yuri Chekranov
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Yuri Andreevich Chekranov (Russian: Юрий Андреевич Черканов; 31 October 1943 – 16 December 2021) was an international speedway rider from the Soviet Union.
Speedway career
In 1963 he won the Russian national championship.
Chekranov reached the final of the Speedway World Team Cup in the 1964 Speedway World Team Cup where he won a silver medal.
In 1964 he was part of the Soviet Union team that toured Britain for the first time and was a motor mechanic by trade at the time.
In 1965 he toured the United Kingdom as part of the Soviet Union national team again.
World final appearances
World Team Cup
- 1964 - West Germany Abensberg Stadion, Abensberg (with Boris Samorodov / Igor Plekhanov / Gennady Kurilenko) - 2nd - 25pts (6)
- 1965 - West Germany Illerstadion, Kempten (with Gennady Kurilenko / Igor Plekhanov / Vladimir Sokolov / Viktor Trofimov) - 4th - 7pts (2)
Individual Ice Speedway World Championship
- 1966 Soviet Union 2 rounds, 4th