Gennady Kurilenko

Gennady Kurilenko (c. 1944 – 16 February 2013) was an Ukrainian speedway rider.

Kurilenko reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1964 Individual Speedway World Championship[2] by virtue of qualifying through the Continenetal rounds at Zagreb, Lviv and Slaný.

[3][4] Kurilenko was the champion of the Soviet Union, winning the title in 1970.

[6] 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[7] 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.

[8] In 1965 he toured the United Kingdom as part of the Soviet Union national team again.