1986 Individual Speedway World Championship

British qualification • Riders progress to British semi-finals == Second round ==

British semi-finals • 18 May • Odsal Stadium, Bradford • Top 8 to British final Swedish qualification • Top 8 in heat 1, top 7 in heat 2 to Swedish final Australian qualification ==Third round ==

Continental preliminary round Australian Final • Top 4 to Commonwealth Final plus 1 reserve New Zealand Final • 25 January 1986 • Gisborne Speedway, Gisborne • Top 3 to Commonwealth Final British Final • 1 June 1986 • Brandon Stadium, Coventry • Top 9 to Commonwealth Final plus 1 reserve Danish Final • 8 May 1986 • Hele Fyns Speedway Center, Fjelsted • Top 5 to Nordic Final plus 1 reserve • Tommy Knudsen seeded to Nordic Final Finland Final • Varkaus Speedway Stadion, Varkaus • 18 August 1985, top 2 (+1 seeded rider) to 1986 Nordic final Swedish Finals • Top 4 to Nordic Final plus 1 reserve • Jan Andersson seeded to Nordic Final • R1 (21 May, Snälltorpet, Eskilstuna) • R2 (22 May, Nässjö Motorstadion, Nässjö) • R3 (23 May, Sannaheds Motorstadion, Kumla) == Fourth round ==

Continental quarter-finals • Top 32 to Continental semi-finals American Final • 23 June 1986 • Veterans Memorial Stadium, Long Beach • Top 5 + 1 reserve to the Overseas Final Commonwealth Final • 8 June 1986 • Hyde Road, Manchester • Top 11 to the Overseas Final plus 1 reserve == Fifth round ==

Continental semi-finals • 8 June • Santa Marina Stadium, Lonigo • Top 8 to Continental final Nordic Final • 4 July 1986 • Kumla Motorstadion, Kumla • Top 7 to Intercontinental Final plus 1 reserve Overseas Final • 19 June 1986 • Brandon Stadium, Coventry • Top 9 to Intercontinental Final plus 1 reserve == Sixth round ==

Continental Final • 20 July 1986 • Stadion Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt • Top 4 to World Final plus 1 reserve • Ryszard Dołomisiewicz seeded to World Final Intercontinental Final • 20 July 1986 • Odsal Stadium, Bradford • Top 11 to World Final plus 1 reserve == World Final ==

• 30 August 1986 • Silesian Stadium, Chorzów ==References==