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2003 Speedway World Cup
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44th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition
December 2023
December 2023
Speedway World Cup 3 August 9 August 12 Denmark 2002 2004 Holsted, Outrup, and Vojens
The 2003 Speedway World Cup (SWC) was the 3rd FIM Speedway World Cup season. The final took place on 9 August 2003 in Vojens, Denmark. The tournament was won by Sweden (62 pts) and they beat Australia (57 points), host team Denmark (53 pts) and Poland (49 pts), Great Britain (44 pts) in the Final.world.speedway.org https://web.archive.org/web/20030826143256/http://www.world.speedway.org/2003/wc/t/f.sdf 2003-08-26 ; Retrieved on 2008-12-26http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/wtc03.htm 2003 WORLD CUP International Speedway 15 July 2021
Qualification
2003 Speedway World Cup Qualification
Qualifying round
11 May 2003
LVA Latvijas Spidveja Centrs, Daugavpils
Pos. National team Pts.1 GER 652 SVN 62+43 LVA 62+34 ITA 395 AUT 19
Venues
Three cities were selected to host SWC finals events:
CityStadium names Holsted Holsted Speedway Center Outrup Outrup Speedway Center Vojens Vojens Speedway Center
Qualifying round
Holsted (1)
2003 Speedway World Cup Event 1
Event 1
3 August 2003
DEN Holsted
Pos. National team Pts.1 DEN 622 CZE 503 FIN 324 GER 10
Outrup (2)
2003 Speedway World Cup Event 2
Event 2
4 August 2003
DEN Outrup
Latvia team (3rd in Qualifying round) was replaced by Italy (4th in Qualifying round)
Pos. National team Pts.1 AUS 622 GBR 603 SVN 284 ITA 6
Holsted (3)
2003 Speedway World Cup Event 3
Event 3
5 August 2003
DEN Holsted
Pos. National team Pts.1 POL 582 SWE 563 RUS 284 HUN 9
Race-off
2003 Speedway World Cup Race-off
Race-Off
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DEN Outrup
Pos. National team Pts.1 GBR 802 SWE 633 CZE 614 FIN 265 RUS 24
Final
The 2003 Speedway World Cup Final took place on 9 August in the Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark.world.speedway.org https://web.archive.org/web/20030826143256/http://www.world.speedway.org/2003/wc/t/f.sdf 2003-08-26 ; Retrieved on 2008-12-26http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/wtc03.htm 2003 WORLD TEAM CUP International Speedway 15 July 2021
Results
Pos. National team Pts.1 SWE 622 AUS 573 DEN 534 POL 495 GBR 44
Heat details
P1 SWE Andreas Jonsson 0 3 3 4 2 Mikael Max 4 4 2 4 8 J 3 Peter Ljung 2 4 0 0 4 Peter Karlsson 2 2 1 2 3 David Ruud 3 1 0 - 1 P2 AUS Jason Crump 4 4 4 4 1 Todd Wiltshire 3 2 4 4 2 Jason Lyons X X X 0 0 Ryan Sullivan 3 1 3 2 1 Leigh Adams 4 4 4 2 1 P3 DEN Nicki Pedersen 3 3 1 3 8 J 3 Hans N. Andersen 1 2 2 2 0 Bjarne Pedersen 4 0 1 X 4 Ronni Pedersen 1 2 - 1 - Charlie Gjedde 2 X 4 1 3 2 4 POL Tomasz Gollob 2 3 2 3 6 J 4 Tomasz Bajerski 2 0 3 1 0 Jarosław Hampel 1 1 4 0 3 4 Sebastian Ułamek 4 1 0 1 - Piotr Protasiewicz 1 3 X 0 - 5 GBR Gary Havelock 1 0 2 - X Dean Barker 0 1 2 2 1 David Norris 3 3 1 1 0 Lee Richardson 0 8 J 3 1 2 Scott Nicholls 0 2 3 3 3 2
References
See also
2003 Speedway Grand Prix
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