The 1978 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship was the 13th edition of the World Championship The Championship was held on 4/5 March 1978 in Assen in the Netherlands.
The winner was Sergey Tarabanko of the Soviet Union for the fourth successive year.
Classification
Pos Rider Pts1 Sergey Tarabanko 28(15+13)2 Anatoly Bondarenko 24(14+10)3 Anatoly Gladyshev 23(13+10)4 Vladimir Subbotin 20(12+8)5 Conny Samuelsson 19(10+9)6 Hans Siegl 19(8+11)7 Vladimir Serbin 18(9+9)8 Vladimir Lioubich 18(8+10)9 Leonard Oswald 13(5+8)10 Walter Wartbichler 11(2+9)11 Zdeněk Kudrna 10(4+6)12 Jiri Jirout 10(4+6)13 Per-Olof Serenius 9(6+3)14 Hans Johnasson 8(5+3)15 Bo Kindgren 5(2+3)16 Roelof Thijs 2(-+2)17 Milan Špinka (res) 2(0+2)18 Bruce Cribb (res) 0(0+0)
See also 1978 Individual Speedway World Championship in classic speedway
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