The Individual Ice Speedway World Championship is an Ice speedway championship held annually to determine an individual World Champion.
[5][6] The event has been dominated by the Soviet Union/Russia, who have won all but seven of the World Championship titles since 1966.
[7] In 2021 and 2022 Russian athletes competed as neutral competitors using the designation MFR (Motorcycle Federation of Russia), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships.
The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes.
[8] In March 2022, the FIM issued a total ban on Russian riders competing in international events, meaning they were unable to complete the remainder of the 2022 calendar or appear in the following seasons.