The 1981 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 11th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship. The event was held on 20 September 1981 in Gornja Radgona in the Slovenia, which was Yugoslavia at the time.
The world title was won by Michael Lee of England. 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 Pts1 Michael Lee 3 5 5 5 5 232 Christoph Betzl 5 45 5 1 203 Anders Michanek 4 4 4 4 3 19 4 Georg Gilgenreiner 1 5 5 4 4 195 Egon Müller 5 33 3 2 166 Phil Collins 4 5 2 3 0 147 Josef Aigner 3 4 4 2 E 138 Hans Otto Pingel 5 3 4 ef E129 Peter Collins 3 2 3 2E 1010 Jiří Štancl 1 3 1 1E 6 11 Ivan Mauger 4 2 ns nsE 612 Georg Hack 2 0 3 ef E513 Karl Maier 2 1 2EE 514 Zdeněk Kudrna 2 2 ns EE4 15 Stefan Kekec 0 12 EE316 Vlado Kocuvan 0 0 1 EE117 Alois Wiesböck ef 1 efEE 1 18 Wilhelm Duden ef 0EEef 0
E = eliminated (no further ride) f = fell ef = engine failure ns = non starter
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