Born | Rott am Inn, Germany | 13 February 1949
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Nationality | German |
Career history | |
West Germany | |
1980 | Landshut |
Great Britain | |
1975 | Poole Pirates |
Individual honours | |
1979 | Speedway World Championship finalist |
1979 | Continental Final Champion |
1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 | World Long Track finalist |
Christoph Betzl (born 13 February 1949) is a former international speedway rider from West Germany.[1] He earned 24 international caps for the West German national speedway team.[2]
Betzl reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1979 Individual Speedway World Championship representing West Germany.[3] He has also reached the final of the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship on eight occasions in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982. He won a bronze medal in the 1980 final and a silver medal in the 1981 final.[4]
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway, riding for Poole Pirates.[5][6]