{{Short description|West German speedway rider}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Use British English|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox Speedway rider | name = Georg Hack | image = | caption = | nationality = German | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|2|20}} | birth_place = Landshut, West Germany | death_date = | death_place =
| career1 = '''West Germany''' | career2 = Bopfingen | years2 = 1974 | career3 = Landshut | years3 = 1975–1986 | career4 = '''Great Britain''' | career5 = Ipswich Witches | years5 = 1978-1979, 1983
| indivyear1 = 1982 | indivhonour1 = Speedway World Championship finalist | indivyear2 = 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 | indivhonour2 = World Long Track finalist | teamyear1 = | teamhonour1 = }} '''Georg Hack''' (born 20 February 1950) is a former international speedway rider from West Germany.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/worldfinal_h|title=WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX|website=British Speedway|access-date=10 July 2021}}</ref> He earned 26 international caps for the West German national speedway team.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Ultimate_Index_1929-2022.pdf |title=Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022 |website=British Speedway |access-date=17 March 2024}}</ref>
== Speedway career == Hack reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1982 Individual Speedway World Championship representing West Germany.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/worldchamps1936to94.pdf|title=World Speedway finals|website=Speedway Researcher|access-date=10 July 2021}}</ref> He has also reached the final of the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship on eight occasions during the period 1977 until 1985.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/georg-hack/|title=Georg Hack|website=Grasstrack GB|access-date=10 July 2021}}</ref>
Hack rode in the final of the 1981 and 1982 World Team Cup.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19820807/019/0019 |title=Ex Vikings through to World Finals |website=Hull Daily Mail |date=7 August 1982 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref>
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway, riding for Ipswich Witches.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004964/19781026/440/0048 |title=Cup stars may go |website=Suffolk and Essex Free Press |date=26 October 1978 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/historyarchive|title=History Archive|website=British Speedway|access-date=10 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/1221/georg-hack|title=Speedway riders, history and results|website=wwosbackup|access-date=10 July 2021}}</ref>
==World final appearances==
===Individual World Championship=== * 1982 - {{Flagicon|USA}} Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum - 11th - 6pts * 1984 – {{flagicon|SWE}} Gothenburg, Ullevi – Reserve – Did not ride
===World Pairs Championship=== * 1978 - {{Flagicon|POL}} Chorzów, Silesian Stadium (with Hans Wassermann) - 6th - 13pts
===World Team Cup=== * 1981 - {{Flagicon|FRG}} Olching, Speedway Stadion Olching (with Egon Müller / Karl Maier / Georg Gilgenreiner) - '''3rd''' - 28pts (5) * 1982 - {{Flagicon|ENG}} London, White City Stadium (with Karl Maier / Egon Müller / Alois Wiesböck / Georg Gilgenreiner) - '''3rd''' - 18pts (5)
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