{{Short description|Soviet speedway rider}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Use British English|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox Speedway rider | name = Mikhail Starostin | image = | caption = | nationality = Russian | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|2|24}} | birth_place = [[Ufa]], Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place =
| career1 = '''Soviet Union''' | career2 = [[Bashkiria Ufa|Ufa]] | years2 = 1974–1992 | career3 = '''Poland''' | career4 = [[Śląsk Świętochłowice|Świętochłowice]] | years4 = 1992 | career5 = [[Kraków Speedway|Kraków]] | years5 = 1993–1995 | career6 = [[Motor Lublin (speedway team)|Lublin]] | years6 = 1996
| indivyear1 = 1975, 1981, 1985–1987, 1990–1991 | indivhonour1 = [[Russian Individual Speedway Championship|Soviet Union champion]] | indivyear2 = 1975, 1981, 1985–1987, 1990–1991 | indivhonour2 = [[Russian Individual Speedway Championship|Russian champion]] | indivyear3 = 1979, 1982 | indivhonour3 = [[Speedway World Championship]] finalist | teamyear1 = | teamhonour1 = }} '''Mikhail Leontievich Starostin''' (born 24 February 1955) is a former international [[Motorcycle speedway|speedway rider]] from the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/worldfinal_s|title=World Individual Final - Rider Index |website=British Speedway|access-date=10 July 2021}}</ref>
== Speedway career == Starostin holds the record for [[Russian Individual Speedway Championship|Russian National Championships]], winning the title seven times.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/indmrosji.php |title=Russian Individual Speedway Championship |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego |access-date=9 April 2024}}</ref>
In addition, he won the [[Russian Individual Speedway Championship|Soviet Union Individual Speedway Championship]] five times during the period from 1979 until 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/indmzsrr.php |title=Individual USRR Championship |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego |access-date=6 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bott|first=Richard|title=The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4|year=1980|pages=101|publisher=Stanley Paul & Co Ltd|isbn=0-09-141751-1}}</ref>
He reached the final of the [[Speedway World Championship]] in the [[1979 Individual Speedway World Championship]] and the [[1982 Individual Speedway World Championship]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19790831/368/0017 |title=In-form Collins can regain world crown |website=Birmingham Daily Post |date=31 August 1979 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/worldchamps1936to94.pdf|title=WORLD FINALS 1936-1994|website=Speedway Researcher|access-date=6 April 2024}}</ref>
Starostin never rode in the British leagues during his career but was able to tour Britain during the latter part of his career following the [[Revolutions of 1989]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004849/19980420/692/0072 |title=Russians return ready to roll back the years |work=Daily Express |date=20 April 1998 |page=72 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=4 April 2026}}</ref> He toured the United Kingdom in 1990 and 1998 as part of the Russia national team.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003836/19900426/072/0072 |title=The Russians are coming |website=Peterborough Herald & Post |date=26 April 1990|via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 September 2024}}</ref>
== World final appearances == === Individual World Championship === * [[1979 Individual Speedway World Championship|1979]] – {{Flagicon|POL}} [[Chorzów]], [[Silesian Stadium]] – 13th – 3pts * [[1982 Individual Speedway World Championship|1982]] – {{Flagicon|USA}} [[Los Angeles]], [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum|Memorial Coliseum]] – 16th – 0pts
===World Team Cup=== * [[1981 Speedway World Team Cup|1981]] – {{Flagicon|FRG}} [[Olching]], [[Speedway Stadion Olching]] (with [[Valery Gordeev]] / [[Viktor Kuznetsov (speedway rider)|Viktor Kuznetsov]] / [[Nikolay Kornev]] / [[Anatoly Maksimov]]) – 4th – 3pts (0)
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