2016 Speedway European Championship

The 2016 Speedway European Championship season was the fourth season of the Speedway European Championship (SEC) era, and the 16th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the fourth series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland.

2016 Speedway European Championship
Season details
Dates16 July – 17 September
Events4
Cities4
Countries4
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats(in 4 events)
Winners
Champion DEN Nicki Pedersen
Runner-up CZE Václav Milík
3rd place POL Krzysztof Kasprzak

The championship was won by Nicki Pedersen, who claimed the title for the first time.[1] He won by two points from Václav Milík, who beat Krzysztof Kasprzak in a run-off for second place. Grigory Laguta and Leon Madsen finished fourth and fifth to ensure qualification for the 2017 competition. Two-time defending champion Emil Sayfutdinov finished seventh.


Qualification

For the 2016 season, 15 permanent riders were joined at each SEC Final by one wild card and two track reserves.

Defending champion, Emil Sayfutdinov from Russia was automatically invited to participate in all final events. Nicki Pedersen, Antonio Lindbäck, Janusz Kołodziej and Martin Vaculík secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top five of the general classification in the 2015 season.

Seven riders qualified through the SEC Challenge and the line-up was then completed when Grigory Laguta, Václav Milík and Andžejs Ļebedevs received and accepted wild cards to compete. [2]

Qualified riders

#Riders2015 placeSEC Ch placeAppearance
89 Emil Sayfutdinov14th
3 Nicki Pedersen24th
85 Antonio Lindbäck32nd
27 Janusz Kołodziej43rd
54 Martin Vaculík54th
507 Krzysztof Kasprzak-12nd
66 Leon Madsen21st
610 Joonas Kylmäkorpi31st
59 Przemysław Pawlicki742nd
34 Hans N. Andersen953rd
36 Peter Ljung61st
5 Anders Thomsen71st
7 Grigory Laguta64th
13 Václav Milík122nd
29 Andžejs Ļebedevs2nd

Calendar

Qualification

The calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semifinal events and one SEC Challenge event.

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
Semifinal 1 30 April Debrecen, Hungary

Speedway Stadium

Eduard Krčmář Martin Smolinski Peter Ljung Leon Madsen results
Semifinal 2 7 May Mureck, Austria

Speedway Stadium

Michael Jepsen Jensen Hans N. Andersen Krzysztof Kasprzak Nicolas Covatti results
Semifinal 3 15 May Liberec, Czech Republic

Speedway Stadium

Mateusz Szczepaniak Artem Laguta Joonas Kylmäkorpi Tomasz Jędrzejak results
Semifinal 4 15 May Zarnovica, Slovakia

Speedway Stadium

Fredrik Lindgren Anders Thomsen Przemysław Pawlicki Thomas H. Jonasson results
SEC Challenge 27 May Olching, Germany

Stadion Olching

Krzysztof Kasprzak Leon Madsen Joonas Kylmäkorpi Przemysław Pawlicki results

Championship Series

A four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series,[3] with events in Germany, Latvia, Russia and Poland.

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
1 16 July Güstrow, Germany

Speedway Stadion

Martin Vaculík Krzysztof Kasprzak Kai Huckenbeck Janusz Kołodziej results
2 6 August Daugavpils, Latvia

Spīdveja centrs

Grigory Laguta Joonas Kylmäkorpi Emil Sayfutdinov Maksims Bogdanovs results
3 20 August Tolyatti, Russia

IMega-Lada Stadium

Grigory Laguta Antonio Lindbäck Leon Madsen Hans N. Andersen results
4 17 September Rybnik, Poland

Stadion Miejski

Nicki Pedersen Václav Milík Jr. Krzysztof Kasprzak Emil Sayfutdinov results

Classification

Pos. Rider Points
1 (3) Nicki Pedersen 40 761017
2 (13) Václav Milík 38 891011
3 (507) Krzysztof Kasprzak 38 115814
4 (7) Grigory Laguta 37 131410
5 (66) Leon Madsen 37 781111
6 (85) Antonio Lindbäck 37 87148
7 (89) Emil Sayfutdinov 35 810512
8 (59) Przemysław Pawlicki 33 9987
9 (29) Andžejs Ļebedevs 26 8765
10 (610) Joonas Kylmäkorpi 25 1456
11 (54) Martin Vaculík 24 12480
12 (27) Janusz Kołodziej 24 9465
13 (34) Hans N. Andersen 24 789
14 (5) Anders Thomsen 20 6950
15 (36) Peter Ljung 16 5236
16 (16) Maksims Bogdanovs 11 11
17 (15) Kai Huckenbeck 9 9
18 (16) Kacper Woryna 6 6
19 (78) Nicolás Covatti 5 14
20 (16) Tobias Busch 4 4
21 (16) Andrey Kudryashov 3 3
22 (17) Robert Chimel 3 3
23 (17) Tobias Kroner 1 1
24 (18) Dominik Kucera 1 1
25 (17) Mikhail Litvinov 0 0
26 (18) Gleb Chugunov 0 0

See also

References

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