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Hungary v South Africa

1992 Hungarian Select won series 3-0
Miskolc Hungarian Select 59 South Africa 40
26.09 : Debrecen Hungarian Select 81 South Africa 38
Nyiregyhaza Hungarian Select 58 South Africa 41

Hungarian Select Total South Africa Total
Zoltan Kovacs 14 - 15 29 Warren Meier 7 8 14 29
Gabor Melicher 14 14 Noddy Naude 7 8 6 21
Gabor Roth 13 Karoly Lechky 7 12 5 24
Laszlo Karczagi 5 Grant Foley 2 7
Laszlo Varga 9 Ivan van Niekerk 1 5
Attila Kovacs 9 Jerry Martin 2 3
Sandor Kabai 6 Richard Duke 2
Imre Szabo 12 Eric Allan 3
Attila Stefani 9 Ian Richter -
Tamas Torkos 4 Des Jones 0
The details below are for the match at Debrecen (from a Hungarian source)
The home team are referred to as "Juniors", so are presumably under-19, -21, or -23. Stefani and Karczagi were 18 at this time,
Roth was 16 years old.
This appears to be an unusual heat format - for 9-rider teams over 20 heats

4 heats comprised all Hungarian riders (thus heat scores of 6-0), and 2 heats were all South Africans (scoring 0-6)!
Hungary Juniors 81
Laszlo Varga: 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 = 9
Gabor Roth: 2, 3, 2, 3, 3 = 13
Laszlo Karczagi: ret, 0, 2, 2, 1 = 5
Attila Kovacs: 3, 0, 2, 1, 3 = 9
Sandor Kabai: 3, 3, F = 6
Imre Szabo: 2, 1, 3, 3, 3 = 12
Attila Stefani: 1, 1, 3, 2, 2 = 9
Gabor Melicher: 3, 2, 3, 3, 3 = 14
Tamas Torkos: 1, 0, 1, 1, 1 = 4
South Africa 38
Warren Meier: 3, 3, 0, ret, 2 = 8
Richard Duke: 0, 2, 0, F, F = 2
Des Jones: F= 0
Noddy Naude: ret, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1 = 8
Jerry Martin, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0 = 2
Ivan van Niekerk: 1, F, F = 1
Karoly Lechky: 2, 2, 3, 3, 2 = 12
Grant Foley: 0, 1, 1, 0 = 2
Eric Allen: 1, 0, 2, 0 = 3
Ht 1: Maier, Roth, Varga, Duke 3-3 3-3
Ht 2: Kovacs, Naude, Karczagi (ret), Jones (fns) 3-2 6-5
Ht 3: Kabai, Szabo, van Niekerk, Martin 5-1 11-6
Ht 4: Melicher, Lechky, Stefani, Foley 4-2 15-8
Ht 5: Kabai, Varga, Stefani, Karczagi 6-0 21-8
Ht 6: Meier, Lechky, Allen, Martin 0-6 21-14
Ht 7: Roth, Melicher, Szabo, Kovacs 6-0 27-14
Ht 8: Naude, Duke, Foley, van Niekerk (f) 0-6 27-20
Ht 9: Varga, Szabo, Foley, Allen 5-1 32-21
Ht 10: Melicher, Karczagi, Torkos, Meier 6-0 38-21
Ht 11: Lechky, Roth, Naude, Kabai (f) 2-4 40-25
Ht 12: Stefani, Kovacs, Martin, Duke 5-1 45-26
Ht 13: Lechky, Varga, Kovacs, Torkos 3-3 48-29
Ht 14: Szabo, Stefani, Naude, Meier (ret) 5-1 53-30
Ht 15: Roth, Karczagi, Martin, Foley 5-1 58-31
Ht 16: Melicher, Allen, Torkos, Duke (f) 4-2 62-33
Ht 17: Melicher, Varga, Naude, Martin 5-1 67-34
Ht 18: Kovacs, Meier, Torkos 4-2 71-36
Ht 19: Roth, Stefani, Torkos, Allen 6-0 77-36
Ht 20: Szabo, Lechky, Karczagi, Duke (f) 4-2 81-38

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