Gennady Kurilenko

Gennady Kurilenko ( – 16 February 2013) was a Ukrainian speedway rider. He represented the Soviet Union.

Speedway career Kurilenko reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1964 Individual Speedway World Championship by virtue of qualifying through the Continenetal rounds at Zagreb, Lviv and Slaný.

Kurilenko was the champion of the Soviet Union, winning the title in 1970. He had previously won the Continental Speedway final in 1968.

In 1964, he was part of the Soviet Union team that toured Britain for the first time and was a metal craftsman by trade at the time and later that year he reached his first world final; the 1964 Individual Speedway World Championship, held on 11 September at the Ullevi in Sweden. In 1965 he toured the United Kingdom as part of the Soviet Union national team again.

World final appearances Individual World Championship 1964 – Gothenburg, Ullevi – 8th – 7pts 1968 – Gothenburg, Ullevi - 4th - 11pts + 2pts 1970 – Wrocław, Olympic Stadium - 14th - 2pts

World Team Cup 1964 – Abensberg, Abensberg Stadion (with Boris Samorodov / Igor Plekhanov / Yuri Chekranov) - 2nd - 25pts (8) 1965 – Kempten (with Yuri Chekranov / Igor Plekhanov / Vladimir Sokolov / Viktor Trofimov) - 4th - 7pts (2) 1969 – Rybnik, Rybnik Stadium (with Viktor Trofimov / Vladimir Smirnov / Valeri Klementiev / Yury Dubinin) - 3rd - 23pts (8)