2016 Speedway European Championship

April 2014 x 2016 16 July – 17 September 4 4 4 15 1 2 DEN Nicki Pedersen CZE Václav Milík POL Krzysztof Kasprzak 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. The championship was won by Nicki Pedersen, who claimed the title for the first time.http://www.speedwayeuro.com/en/results.html Final 2016 SEC Standings SEC 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.http://speedwayeuro.com/en/news/n/760/ Participants announced SEC Qualified riders # Riders 2015 place SEC Ch place Appearance89 RUS Emil Sayfutdinov 1 4th 3DEN Nicki Pedersen 2 4th 85 SWE Antonio Lindbäck 3 2nd 27POL Janusz Kołodziej 4 3rd 54 SVK Martin Vaculík 5 4th 507 POL Krzysztof Kasprzak - 1 2nd 66 DEN Leon Madsen 2 1st 610 FIN Joonas Kylmäkorpi 3 1st 59 POL Przemysław Pawlicki 7 4 2nd 34 DEN Hans N. Andersen 9 5 3rd 36 SWE Peter Ljung 6 1st 5 DEN Anders Thomsen 7 1st 7 RUS Grigory Laguta 6 4th 13CZE Václav Milík 12 2nd 29LVA Andžejs Ļebedevs 2nd Calendar Qualification The calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semifinal events and one SEC Challenge event. 2016 HUN Semifinal 1 30 April Speedway Stadium Debrecen CZE Eduard Krčmář GER Martin Smolinski SWE Peter Ljung DEN Leon Madsen 2016 AUT Semifinal 2 7 May Speedway Stadium Mureck DEN Michael Jepsen Jensen DEN Hans N. Andersen POL Krzysztof Kasprzak ITA Nicolas Covatti 2016 CZE Semifinal 3 15 May Speedway Stadium Liberec POL Mateusz Szczepaniak RUS Artem Laguta FIN Joonas Kylmäkorpi POL Tomasz Jędrzejak 2016 SVK Semifinal 4 15 May Speedway Stadium Zarnovica SWE Fredrik Lindgren DEN Anders Thomsen POL Przemysław Pawlicki SWE Thomas H. Jonasson 2016 GER SEC Challenge 27 May Stadion Olching Olching POL Krzysztof Kasprzak DEN Leon Madsen FIN Joonas Kylmäkorpi POL Przemysław Pawlicki Championship Series A four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series,http://speedwayeuro.com/en/events.html 2016 SEC Events SEC with events in Germany, Latvia, Russia and Poland. 2016 GER 1 16 July Speedway Stadion Güstrow SVK Martin Vaculík POL Krzysztof Kasprzak GER Kai Huckenbeck POL Janusz Kołodziej 2016 LVA 2 6 August Spīdveja centrs Daugavpils RUS Grigory Laguta FIN Joonas Kylmäkorpi RUS Emil Sayfutdinov LAT Maksims Bogdanovs 2016 RUS 3 20 August IMega-Lada Stadium Tolyatti RUS Grigory Laguta SWE Antonio Lindbäck DEN Leon Madsen DEN Hans N. Andersen 2016 POL 4 17 September Stadion Miejski Rybnik DEN Nicki Pedersen CZE Václav Milík Jr. POL Krzysztof Kasprzak RUS Emil Sayfutdinov Classification Pos. Rider Points GER LVA RUS POLQ 1 DEN 3 Nicki Pedersen f 7 f 6 e 10 a 17 Q 2 CZE 13 Václav Milík f 8 e 9 e 10 b 11 Q 3 POL 507 Krzysztof Kasprzak b 11 f 5 f 8 c 14 Q 4 RUS 7 Grigory Laguta x a 13 a 14 e 10 Q 5 DEN 66 Leon Madsen f 7 f 8 c 11 e 11 p 6 SWE 85 Antonio Lindbäck e 8 f 7 b 14 f 8 p 7 RUS 89 Emil Sayfutdinov f 8 c 10 f 5 d 12 p 8 POL 59 Przemysław Pawlicki e 9 e 9 f 8 f 7 p 9 LVA 29 Andžejs Ļebedevs f 8 f 7 f 6 f 5 p 10 FIN 610 Joonas Kylmäkorpi x b 14 f 5 f 6 p 11 SVK 54 Martin Vaculík a 12 f 4 f 8 f 0 p 12 POL 27 Janusz Kołodziej d 9 f 4 f 6 f 5 p 13 DEN 34 Hans N. Andersen f 7 f 8 d 9 x p 14 DEN 5 Anders Thomsen f 6 f 9 f 5 f 0 p 15 SWE 36 Peter Ljung f 5 f 2 f 3 f 6 r 16 LVA 16 Maksims Bogdanovs x d 11 x x r 17 GER 15 Kai Huckenbeck c 9 x x x r 18 POL 16 Kacper Woryna x x x f 6 r 19 ITA 78 Nicolás Covatti f 1 x x f 4 r 20 GER 16 Tobias Busch f 4 x x x r 21 RUS 16 Andrey Kudryashov x x f 3 x r 22 POL 17 Robert Chmiel x x x f 3 r 23 GER 17 Tobias Kroner f 1 x x x r 24 POL 18 Dominik Kubera x x x f 1 r 25 RUS 17 Mikhail Litvinov x x f 0 x r 26 RUS 18 Gleb Chugunov x x f 0 x See also 2016 Speedway Grand Prix References 30em External links http://www.speedwayeuro.com/ speedwayeuro.com 2016 European Championship Speedway European Championship