The 1981 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 11th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.^[1][2] The event was held on 20 September 1981 in Gornja Radgona in the Slovenia, which was Yugoslavia at the time.^[3]

The world title was won by Michael Lee of England.^[4][5] Ivan Mauger crashed in heat 7 and was taken to hospital.

Final Classification

Pos	Rider	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Total Pts
1	Michael Lee	3	5	5	5	5	23
2	Christoph Betzl	5	4	5	5	1	20
3	Anders Michanek	4	4	4	4	3	19
4	Georg Gilgenreiner	1	5	5	4	4	19
5	Egon Müller	5	3	3	3	2	16
6	Phil Collins	4	5	2	3	0	14
7	Josef Aigner	3	4	4	2	E	13
8	Hans Otto Pingel	5	3	4	ef	E	12
9	Peter Collins	3	2	3	2	E	10
10	Jiří Štancl	1	3	1	1	E	6
11	Ivan Mauger	4	2	ns	ns	E	6
12	Georg Hack	2	0	3	ef	E	5
13	Karl Maier	2	1	2	E	E	5
14	Zdeněk Kudrna	2	2	ns	E	E	4
15	Stefan Kekec	0	1	2	E	E	3
16	Vlado Kocuvan	0	0	1	E	E	1
17	Alois Wiesböck	ef	1	ef	E	E	1
18	Wilhelm Duden	ef	0	E	E	ef	0

• E = eliminated (no further ride)
• f = fell
• ef = engine failure
• ns = non starter

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