2014 Speedway European Championship

April 2026 x 2014 6 July – 19 September 4 4 4 15 1 2 RUS Emil Sayfutdinov DEN Peter Kildemand DEN Nicki Pedersen The 2014 Speedway European Championship season was the second season of the Speedway European Championship (SEC) era, and decided the 14th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the second series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland. The championship was won by Russia's Emil Sayfutdinov, six points ahead of Danish rider Peter Kildemand. Third place went to another Danish rider, Nicki Pedersen, who was another four points behind Kildemand. Pedersen had won the opening two races of the season, before Sayfutdinov moved ahead in the standings after a win at Holsted in Denmark. A fourth-place finish in Częstochowa – an event won by Russian Grigory Laguta – was enough to give Sayfutdinov the title. Qualification For the 2014 season, 15 permanent riders were joined at each SEC Final by one wild card and two track reserves. Defending champion, Martin Vaculík from Slovakia was automatically invited to participate in all final events. Nicki Pedersen and Grigorij Laguta secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top 3 of the general classification in the 2013 season. Emil Sayfutdinov, Andreas Jonsson and Tomasz Gollob received and accepted a wild card to compete in the 2014 Speedway European Championships. Gollob will start in SEC 2014! speedwayeuro.com 29 November 2013 https://www.speedwayeuro.com/news/n/178/gollob-will-start-in-sec-2014--.html 3 December 2013 Emil Sajfutdinow znalazł sponsorów na Grand Prix! Jest jednak jeden warunek Polish sportowefakty.pl 29 November 2013 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/400779/emil-sajfutdinow-znalazl-sponsorow-na-grand-prix-jest-jednak-jeden-warunek 3 December 2013 Qualified riders # Riders 2013 place SEC Ch place Appearance Previous appearances in series1 SVK Martin Vaculík 1 2nd 20135 DEN Nicki Pedersen 2 2nd 2013111 RUS Grigorij Laguta 3 2nd 201320 POL Tomasz Gollob 7 2nd 201389 RUS Emil Sayfutdinov 9 2nd 2013100 SWE Andreas Jonsson – 1st 33 POL Adrian Miedziński – 1 1st 27 POL Janusz Kołodziej – 2 1st 25 DEN Peter Kildemand – 3 1st 313 DEN Kenni Larsen – 4 1st 13 SWE Jonas Davidsson – 5 1st 19 CRO Jurica Pavlic 12 6 2nd 201369 POL Patryk Dudek – 7 1st 169 LAT Andžejs Ļebedevs (wildcard) – 8 1st 84 GER Martin Smolinski (wildcard) – 1st Controversy The European Union Motorcycle (FIM-Europe) introduced a formal ban that prevented riders in the Speedway Grand Prix taking part in the Speedway European Championship. The decision had been rumoured for weeks before being officially confirmed on 3 November 2013. That meant that all riders taking part in the World Championship could not be regular participants of the SEC. Amongst the riders who received permanent wild cards from the SEC were Emil Sayfutdinov, Andreas Jonsson and Tomasz Gollob. Grand Prix riders banned from SEC! speedwayeuro.com 4 November 2013 https://speedwayeuro.com/news/n/166/grand-prix-riders-banned-from-sec-.html 3 December 2013 Shortly after this, riders started to show the support to the SEC and their displeasure about the situation. As a result of this, already invited rider Tomasz Gollob, Andreas Jonsson, Nicki Pedersen and Emil Sayfutdinov sent an open letter to the FIM-Europe requesting the solution of the situation. GP Stars Frustrated By European Ban! speedway365.com 7 November 2013 http://www.speedway365.com/gp-stars-frustrated-by-european-ban/ 3 December 2013 A statement from series organisers One Sport Lts. on 17 November 2013 pointed out that the ban was inconsistent with European law and announced an intention to take required legal action. They used the European Union Microsoft competition case as an example. Emil Sajfutdinow chce unieważnienia Entry Form! sportowefakty.pl 14 February 2014 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/417231/emil-sajfutdinow-chce-uniewaznienia-entry-form 25 February 2014 On 29 November, Emil Sayfutdinov announced that he was prepared to drop out of the 2014 SGP series in order to ride in the Speedway European Championship. As a reason, he explained that his Russian sponsors insisted their logos were seen in their country and SEC tournaments were transmitted by a Eurosport channel available in Russia, whereas Grand Prix competitions were not shown by any TV channel in Russia. Moreover, one of SEC tournaments was due to be held in Russia in 2014. Emil Commits To European Championship! speedway365.com 29 November 2013 http://www.speedway365.com/emil-commits-to-european-championship/ 3 December 2013 On the same day, Tomasz Gollob also announced that he would participate in the Speedway European Championship. On 6 December, Janek Konikiewicz, a representative for One Sport Lts., tweeted that "It seems that there will be no ban for SGP riders in SEC 2014. Another strong signal, that we have won – but still nothing official". It seems that there will be no ban for SGP riders in SEC 2014 twitter.com 6 December 2013 https://twitter.com/JKonikiewicz/statuses/408976745723723779 9 December 2013 On 20 December, he also tweeted another message: "OFFICIAL: One Sport received an official letter from FIM-Europe with information that they advised FIM to not ban any riders from SEC", which basically ended the story. OFFICIAL: One Sport received an official letter from FIM-Europe twitter.com 20 December 2013 https://twitter.com/JKonikiewicz/statuses/414032339224653824 21 December 2013 On 7 February 2014, the FIM board of directors officially took the decision to ban World Championship participants from participating in any kind of European Championships tournament. One Sport LLC declared their disapproval with the FIM's decision. Statement of One Sport LLC according to FIM decisions sportowefakty.pl 16 February 2014 https://www.speedwayeuro.com/news/n/206/statement-of-one-sport-llc-according-to-fim-decisions.html 25 February 2014 Znamy treść pisma FIM kierowanego do One Sport! sportowefakty.pl 13 February 2014 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/416996/znamy-tresc-pisma-fim-kierowanego-do-federacji-krajowych 25 February 2014 Shortly after, Tomasz Gollob announced that he would refuse his wild card invitation for the SGP Bydgoszcz tournament, whereas Andreas Jonsson decided to refuse his SEC invitation in favour of participating in SGP. Jonsson zrezygnował z SEC! "Andreas chce być mistrzem świata" sportowefakty.pl 14 February 2014 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/417222/jonsson-zrezygnowal-z-sec-andreas-chce-byc-mistrzem-swiata 25 February 2014 Emil Sayfutdinov asked to drop his application for SGP. Emil Sajfutdinow chce unieważnienia Entry Form! sportowefakty.pl 14 February 2014 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/417231/emil-sajfutdinow-chce-uniewaznienia-entry-form 25 February 2014 On 28 February 2014, the FIM board of directions officially announced that the previous ban for SGP riders to participate in SEC was delayed until 1 January 2015. Oficjalnie: FIM zawiesza zakaz łączenia startów w SGP i SEC! sportowefakty.pl 28 February 2014 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/420731/oficjalnie-fim-zawiesza-zakaz-dla-zawodnikow-z-grand-prix 18 April 2014 Changes In the 2014 season, the participating riders had the possibility to choose the number which would be on their race jacket. In the past, the riders in all tournaments had an obligatory number which was given to them by the organizers. During the first tournament, the defending champion wore a yellow race jacket and for all following tournaments, the current general classification leader wore the jacket. Riders themselves will choose the starting numbers speedwayeuro.com 8 January 2014 https://www.speedwayeuro.com/news/n/191/riders-themselves-will-choose-the-starting-numbers.html 8 January 2014 Calendar Qualification 2014 Speedway European Championship qualification The calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semifinal events and one SEC Challenge event. SEC semi-finals, May 2014: Rivne, Krsko and Zarnovica. SEC Challenge, 08 June 2014: Debrecen. Polish sportowefakty.pl 7 December 2013 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/402632/kalendarz-fim-europe-na-rok-2012 13 December 2013 At the end of March, the first semifinal round was moved from Ukraine to Latvia. 2014 LVA Semifinal 1 17 May Spīdveja centrs (Length: 373m) Daugavpils DEN Michael J. Jensen LAT Andžejs Ļebedevs POL Patryk Dudek POL Maciej Janowski 2014 SLO Semifinal 2 17 May Matija Gubec Stadium (Length: 387m) Krško LAT Maksims Bogdanovs POL Przemyslaw Pawlicki UKR Andriy Karpov CRO Jurica Pavlic 2014 SVK Semifinal 3 25 May Speedwaystadium (Length: 400 m) Žarnovica POL Janusz Kołodziej DEN Peter Kildemand SWE Jonas Davidsson POL Adrian Miedziński 2014 HUN SEC Challenge 8 June Speedway Stadium (Length: 398 m) Debrecen POL Adrian Miedziński POL Janusz Kołodziej DEN Peter Kildemand DEN Kenni Larsen Championship Series 2014 Speedway European Championship finals A four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series, EM-deltävling till Skandinavien Swedish speedwaynyheter.se 22 November 2013 http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/sec/em-deltavling-till-skandinavien/ https://web.archive.org/web/20131212005706/http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/sec/em-deltavling-till-skandinavien/ dead 12 December 2013 4 December 2013 SEC semi-finals, May 2014: Rivne, Krsko and Zarnovica. SEC Challenge, 08 June 2014: Debrecen. Polish sportowefakty.pl 7 December 2013 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/402632/kalendarz-fim-europe-na-rok-2012 13 December 2013 with events in Germany, Russia, Denmark and Poland. 2014 GER 1 6 July Speedway Stadion Güstrow (Length: 298m) Güstrow DEN Nicki Pedersen DEN Peter Kildemand POL Janusz Kołodziej POL Tomasz Gollob 2014 RUS 2 20 July Mega-Lada Stadium (Length: 353m) Tolyatti DEN Nicki Pedersen RUS Emil Sayfutdinov POL Patryk Dudek SVK Martin Vaculík 2014 DEN 3 9 August Moldow Arena (Length: 300m) Holsted RUS Emil Sayfutdinov DEN Peter Kildemand SVK Martin Vaculík LAT Maksims Bogdanovs 2014 POL 4 19 September Częstochowa Arena (Length: 368m) Częstochowa RUS Grigory Laguta DEN Nicki Pedersen DEN Peter Kildemand RUS Emil Sayfutdinov Classification Pos. Rider Points GER RUS DEN POLp 1 RUS 89 Emil Sayfutdinov e 11 b 15 a 13 d 15 p 2 DEN 25 Peter Kildemand b 11 e 12 b 13 c 12 p 3 DEN 5 Nicki Pedersen a 14 a 13 f 6 b 11 p 4 SVK 1 Martin Vaculík f 7 d 14 c 12 f 8 p 5 POL 27 Janusz Kołodziej c 14 f 6 f 8 e 10 p 6 LAT 21 Maksims Bogdanovs f 8 f 8 d 11 f 7 p 7 CRO 19 Jurica Pavlic f 3 e 9 e 11 f 8 p 8 SWE 100 Andreas Jonsson e 9 f 5 f 9 f 8 p 9 POL 20 Tomasz Gollob d 9 f 4 f 5 e 9 p 10 LAT 169 Andžejs Ļebedevs f 7 f 8 f 4 f 3 p 11 POL 33 Adrian Miedziński f 9 f 5 f 4 f 3 w 12 RUS 111 Grigory Laguta x x x a 17 p 13 POL 69 Patryk Dudek f 4 c 12 x x p 14 DEN 313 Kenni Larsen f 6 f 3 f 3 f 2 p 15 SWE 13 Jonas Davidsson f 5 f 5 f 3 f 1 p 16 GER 84 Martin Smolinski f 5 f 3 x f 5 w 17 DEN 16 Niels-Kristian Iversen x x e 10 x w 18 DEN 15 Michael Jepsen Jensen x x f 9 x w 19 POL 16 Rune Holta x x x f 7 w 20 GER 16 Christian Hefenbrock f 4 x x x w - RUS 16 Vitaly Bielousov x f 4 x x w 22 DEN 16 Rasmus Jensen x x f 2 x w 23 LAT 18 Ķasts Puodžuks x x f 1 x w - DEN 17 Patrick Hougaard x x f 1 x w 25 GER 17 Kai Huckenbeck f 0 x x x w - POL 17 Artur Czaja x x x f 0 w GER 18 Tobias Busch n x x x w RUS 17 Sergey Agaltsov x n x x w RUS 18 Michail Litvinov x n x x w POL 18 Borys Miturski x x x n 2014 Speedway European Champion Russia Emil Sayfutdinov First See also 2014 Speedway Grand Prix References 30em External links https://www.speedwayeuro.com/ speedwayeuro.com 2014 European Championship Speedway European Championship