Individual Speedway European Championship
The Individual Speedway European Championship is an annual individual speedway event organized by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) to determine the champion of Europe. The competition was founded in 2001 and was initially staged as a one-off meeting before the single event was replaced by the Speedway European Championship series in 2012. As of 2020, the competition is staged over four rounds in a Grand Prix format, with the winner being the rider who accumulates the most points over the four rounds. The minimum age of a rider to compete is 16 years of age (starting on the date of the rider's birthday).
Current season, competition or edition: 2020 Speedway European Championship | |
Sport | motorcycle speedway |
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Founded | 2001 |
No. of teams | 16 riders |
Continent | Europe |
Most recent champion(s) | Robert Lambert (2020) |
Most titles | 2 titles: RUS Emil Sayfutdinov SVN Matej Žagar |
The current champion is Robert Lambert from Great Britain who won the title in 2020. Russia along with Denmark are the most successful countries having had four champions, Emil Sayfutdinov (2014 and 2015), Grigory Laguta (2011) and Renat Gafurov (2009), for Russia and Jesper B. Jensen (2005), Nicki Pedersen (2016), Leon Madsen (2018) and Mikkel Michelsen in (2019) for Denmark.
Winners
Speedway European Championship series (since 2012)
Year | Venue | Winners | Runner-up | 3rd place |
2012 | Four events | Aleš Dryml, Jr. (48 pts) | Robert Miśkowiak (44 pts) | Andriy Karpov (43 pts) |
2013 | Four events | Martin Vaculik (47 pts) | Nicki Pedersen (44 pts) | Grigory Laguta (42 pts) |
2014 | Four events | Emil Sayfutdinov (54 pts) | Peter Kildemand (48 pts) | Nicki Pedersen (44 pts) |
2015 | Four events | Emil Sayfutdinov (58 pts) | Nicki Pedersen (55 pts) | Antonio Lindbäck (51 pts) |
2016 | Four events | Nicki Pedersen (40 pts) | Václav Milík (38 pts) | Krzysztof Kasprzak (38 pts) |
2017 | Four events | Andžejs Ļebedevs (52 pts) | Artem Laguta (45 pts) | Václav Milík (44 pts) |
2018 | Four events | Leon Madsen (56 pts) | Jarosław Hampel (45 pts) | Robert Lambert (41 pts) |
2019 | Four events | Mikkel Michelsen (45 pts) | Grigory Laguta (45 pts) | Leon Madsen (39 pts) |
2020 | Four events | Robert Lambert (67 pts) | Leon Madsen (64 pts) | Grigory Laguta (52 pts) |
Medals classification
Pos | National Team | Total | |||
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1. | Denmark | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
2. | Russia | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
3. | Poland | 15 | 3 | 9 | 3 |
4. | Czech Republic | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
5. | Slovenia | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
6. | Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
7. | Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
8. | Croatia | 1 | 1 | ||
Slovakia | 1 | 1 | |||
Latvia | 1 | 1 | |||
11. | Ukraine | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
12. | Finland | 1 | 1 | ||
Germany | 1 | 1 |