2015 Speedway European Championship

April 2014 x 2015 20 June – 19 September 4 4 3 15 1 2 RUS Emil Sayfutdinov DEN Nicki Pedersen SWE Antonio Lindbäck The 2015 Speedway European Championship season was the third season of the Speedway European Championship (SEC) era, and the 15th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the third series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland. The championship was won by Russia's Emil Sayfutdinov for the second season in succession.http://www.speedwayeuro.com/en/results.html Final 2015 SEC Standings SEC The Russian finished three points ahead of Danish rider Nicki Pedersen. Third place went to Antonio Lindbäck, who was another four points behind Pedersen. Janusz Kołodziej and Martin Vaculík secured the final two qualifying spots for the 2016 season by finishing fourth and fifth respectively. Qualification For the 2015 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. Peter Kildemand, Nicki Pedersen, Martin Vaculík and Janusz Kołodziej secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top five of the general classification in the 2014 season. Tomasz Gollob,http://www.speedwayeuro.com/en/news/n/488/ Tomasz Gollob gets wildcard SEC Antonio Lindbäck and Martin Smolinski received and accepted a wild card to compete in the 2015 Speedway European Championships.http://www.worldspeedway.com/artman/publish/article_31055.shtml European Championship Wildcards World Speedway Qualified riders # Riders 2014 place SEC Ch place Appearance Previous appearances in series89 RUS Emil Sayfutdinov 1 3rd 201425 DEN Peter Kildemand 2 2nd 20143 DEN Nicki Pedersen 3 3rd 201454 SVK Martin Vaculík 4 3rd 201427 POL Janusz Kołodziej 5 2nd 201420 POL Tomasz Gollob 9 3rd 201484 GER Martin Smolinski 16 2nd 201485 SWE Antonio Lindbäck – 1st 222 RUS Artem Laguta – 1 2nd 201334 DEN Hans N. Andersen – 2 2nd 201379 POL Tomasz Jędrzejak – 3 1st 151 POL Piotr Protasiewicz – 4 1st 13 CZE Václav Milík – 5 1st 7 RUS Grigory Laguta 12 6 3rd 201459 POL Przemysław Pawlicki – 7 1st Calendar Qualification The calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semifinal events and one SEC Challenge event. 2015 HUN Semifinal 1 1 May Speedway Stadium Debrecen POL Piotr Protasiewicz POL Tomasz Jędrzejak DEN Leon Madsen CZE Václav Milík 2015 LVA Semifinal 2 16 May Spīdveja Centrs Daugavpils POL Piotr Pawlicki Jr. DEN Hans N. Andersen RUS Grigory Laguta LAT Andžejs Ļebedevs 2015 FRA Semifinal 3 16 May Speedway Stadium Lamothe-Landerron RUS Artem Laguta DEN Jesper B. Monberg SWE Linus Sundström POL Krzysztof Jabłoński 2015 POL SEC Challenge 5 June MotoArena Toruń RUS Artem Laguta DEN Hans N. Andersen POL Tomasz Jędrzejak POL Piotr Protasiewicz Championship Series A four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series,http://www.speedwayeuro.com/en/news/n/476/ Kumla completes calendar SEC with events in Poland, Germany and Sweden. 2015 POL 1 20 June MotoArena Toruń DEN Nicki Pedersen POL Paweł Przedpełski RUS Emil Sayfutdinov SWE Antonio Lindbäck 2015 GER 2 11 July Onesolar Arena Landshut RUS Emil Sayfutdinov DEN Nicki Pedersen SWE Antonio Lindbäck POL Tomasz Gollob 2015 SWE 3 15 August ICA Maxi Arena Kumla RUS Emil Sayfutdinov RUS Grigory Laguta DEN Nicki Pedersen SWE Antonio Lindbäck 2015 POL 4 19 September Stadion Miejski Ostrów Wielkopolski DEN Nicki Pedersen POL Janusz Kołodziej SWE Antonio Lindbäck POL Przemysław Pawlicki Classification Pos. Rider Points POL GER SWE POLQ 1 RUS 89 Emil Sayfutdinov c 16 a 15 a 18 e 9 Q 2 DEN 3 Nicki Pedersen a 15 b 14 c 11 a 15 Q 3 SWE 85 Antonio Lindbäck d 12 c 11 d 12 c 16 Q 4 POL 27 Janusz Kołodziej f 4 e 10 f 7 b 12 Q 5 SVK 54 Martin Vaculík f 5 e 11 f 8 f 9 p 6 RUS 7 Grigory Laguta e 9 f 5 b 10 f 6 p 7 POL 59 Przemysław Pawlicki f 5 f 8 f 5 d 10 p 8 RUS 222 Artem Laguta f 8 f 5 f 8 f 7 p 9 DEN 34 Hans N. Andersen f 2 f 9 f 6 f 8 p 10 DEN 25 Peter Kildemand e 10 f 5 x f 7 p 11 POL 151 Piotr Protasiewicz f 8 f 7 x f 5 p 12 CZE 13 Václav Milík f 7 f 6 f 5 f 2 p 13 POL 20 Tomasz Gollob f 6 d 12 f 0 x p 14 GER 84 Martin Smolinski f 1 f 5 e 9 f 2 p 15 POL 79 Tomasz Jędrzejak f 6 f 1 f 7 f 2 r 16 POL 16 Paweł Przedpełski b 12 x x x r 17 SWE 16 Fredrik Lindgren x x e 9 x r 18 POL 16 Mateusz Szczepaniak x x x e 9 r 19 POL 15 Piotr Pawlicki Jr. x x x f 7 r 20 SWE 17 Fredrik Engman x x f 6 x r 21 SWE 16 Joel Andersson x x f 4 x r 22 GER 16 Michael Hartel x f 1 x x r 23 GER 17 Kai Huckenbeck x f 1 x x r 24 RUS 15 Vitaly Belousov x x f 1 x r 25 GER 18 Tobias Busch x f 0 x x r 26 POL 17 Rune Holta x x x f 0 2015 Speedway European Champion Russia Emil Sayfutdinov Second See also 2015 Speedway Grand Prix References 30em External links http://www.speedwayeuro.com/ speedwayeuro.com 2015 European Championship Speedway European Championship