[1][2][3][4][5][6] The World final was sponsored by the Sunday Dispatch and was televised live.
[7] Despite being televised a crowd of 65,000 saw the first Scandinavian winner in 23 year old Ove Fundin from Sweden.
[10][11] The October 1955 Norwegian final was cancelled due to bad weather, resulting in riders being seeded to Nordic round Fritz Dirtl was tragically killed competing in the Continental final.
He was involved in a crash with fellow Austrian rider Josef Kamper and the fell into the path of Mieczysław Połukard.
[13] Scores First 11 to World final + 1 reserve m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify