2014 Speedway European Championship

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2014 Speedway European Championship
Season details
Dates6 July – 19 September
Events4
Cities4
Countries4
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats(in 4 events)
Winners
ChampionFlag of Russia.svg  RUS Emil Sayfutdinov
Runner-upFlag of Denmark.svg  DEN Peter Kildemand
3rd placeFlag of Denmark.svg  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 Speedway European Championship (SEC) is an individual speedway competition consisting of a series of stand-alone events over the course of a season to determine the European champion.

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, however the single event was replaced by the Speedway European Championship series in 2012. As of 2015, the competition was staged over four rounds in a Grand Prix format, with the winner being declared as the rider who accumulated the most points over the duration of the four rounds. The minimum age of a rider to compete is 16 years of age.

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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.

Emil Sayfutdinov Russian motorcycle speedway rider

Emil Damirovich Sayfutdinov is a Russian motorcycle speedway rider and member of the Russian national teams. He won the 2007 and 2008 Under-21 World Championship. He is also a two-time winner of the European Championships in 2014, 2015. He has won Speedway of Nations with Russia two-times in 2018, 2019. He is a permanent rider of the 2019 Speedway Grand Prix. He has won seven Grand Prix.

Peter Kildemand Danish speedway rider

Peter Kildemand is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider who is a member of Denmark U-21 national teams. He was a member of the Swindon Robins Elite League Championship winning side of 2012 and was named "Rider of the Year" for the club at the end of the season.

Nicki Pedersen is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider. He has won the World Championship in 2003, 2007 and 2008 and was a World Cup winner with Denmark in 2006, 2008, 2012 and 2014. His brother, Ronni Pedersen, has also ridden in the Speedway Grand Prix and World Cup.

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.

Martin Vaculík Slovakian speedway rider

Martin Vaculík is a Slovak motorcycle speedway rider who is riding for the FALUBAZ Zielona Góra in the Polish Speedway Ekstraliga.

Slovakia Republic in Central Europe

Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi) and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5.4 million and consists mostly of Slovaks. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, and the second-largest city is Košice. The official language is Slovak.

The 2013 Speedway European Championship season was the premiere season of the Speedway European Championship era, and decided the 13th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the first series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland.

Emil Sayfutdinov, Andreas Jonsson and Tomasz Gollob received and accepted a wild card to compete in the 2014 Speedway European Championships. [1] [2]

Andreas Jonsson Swedish motorcycle racer

Andreas Karl Rune Jonsson is an international motorcycle speedway rider who was a member of the Sweden speedway team that won the World Cup in 2003, 2004 and 2015.

Tomasz Gollob Polish speedway rider

Tomasz Gollob is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who has appeared in every Speedway Grand Prix series since its inaugural season in 1995. His brother Jacek is also a speedway rider.

Qualified riders

#Riders 2013 placeSEC Ch placeAppearancePrevious appearances in series
1 Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Vaculík 12nd2013
5 Flag of Denmark.svg Nicki Pedersen 22nd2013
111 Flag of Russia.svg Grigorij Laguta 32nd2013
20 Flag of Poland.svg Tomasz Gollob 72nd2013
89 Flag of Russia.svg Emil Sayfutdinov 92nd2013
100 Flag of Sweden.svg Andreas Jonsson –1st
33 Flag of Poland.svg Adrian Miedziński –11st
27 Flag of Poland.svg Janusz Kolodziej –21st
25 Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Kildemand –31st
313 Flag of Denmark.svg Kenni Larsen –41st
13 Flag of Sweden.svg Jonas Davidsson –51st
19 Flag of Croatia.svg Jurica Pavlic 1262nd2013
69 Flag of Poland.svg Patryk Dudek –71st
169 Flag of Latvia.svg Andrzejs Lebedevs (wildcard)–81st
84 Flag of Germany.svg 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. [3]

Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

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. [4]

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. [5]

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. [6] 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". [7] 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. [8]

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. [9] [10] 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. [11] Emil Sayfutdinov asked to drop his application for SGP. [12]

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. [13]

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. [14]

Calendar

Qualification

The calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semifinal events and one SEC Challenge event. [15] At the end of March, the first semifinal round was moved from the Ukraine to Latvia.

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
Semifinal 117 May Flag of Latvia.svg Daugavpils, Latvia

Spīdveja centrs (Length: 373m)

 Flag of Denmark.svg Michael J. Jensen Flag of Latvia.svg Andrzej Lebiediew Flag of Poland.svg Patryk Dudek Flag of Poland.svg Maciej Janowski results
Semifinal 217 May Flag of Slovenia.svg Krsko, Slovenia

Matija Gubec Stadium (Length: 387m)

 Flag of Latvia.svg Maksim Bogdanow Flag of Poland.svg Przemyslaw Pawlicki Flag of Ukraine.svg Andriej Karpow Flag of Croatia.svg Jurica Pavlic results
Semifinal 325 May Flag of Slovakia.svg Žarnovica, Slovakia

Speedwaystadium (Length: 400 m)

 Flag of Poland.svg Janusz Kolodziej Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Kildemand Flag of Sweden.svg Jonas Davidsson Flag of Poland.svg Adrian Miedzinski results
SEC Challenge8 June Flag of Hungary.svg Debrecen, Hungary

Speedway Stadium (Length: 398 m)

 Flag of Poland.svg Adrian Miedzinski Flag of Poland.svg Janusz Kolodziej Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Kildemand Flag of Denmark.svg Kenni Larsen results

Championship Series

A four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series, [16] [17] with events in Germany, Russia, Denmark and Poland.

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
16 July Flag of Germany.svg Güstrow, Germany

Speedway Stadion Güstrow (Length: 298m)

 Flag of Denmark.svg Nicki Pedersen Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Kildemand Flag of Poland.svg Janusz Kołodziej Flag of Poland.svg Tomasz Gollob results
220 July Flag of Russia.svg Tolyatti, Russia

Mega-Lada Stadium (Length: 353m)

 Flag of Denmark.svg Nicki Pedersen Flag of Russia.svg Emil Sayfutdinov Flag of Poland.svg Patryk Dudek Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Vaculík results
39 August Flag of Denmark.svg Holsted, Denmark

Moldow Arena (Length: 300m)

 Flag of Russia.svg Emil Sayfutdinov Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Kildemand Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Vaculík Flag of Latvia.svg Maksims Bogdanovs results
419 September Flag of Poland.svg Częstochowa, Poland

Częstochowa Arena (Length: 368m)

 Flag of Russia.svg Grigory Laguta Flag of Denmark.svg Nicki Pedersen Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Kildemand Flag of Russia.svg Emil Sayfutdinov results

Classification

Pos.RiderPoints Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Russia.svg Flag of Denmark.svg Flag of Poland.svg
1 Flag of Russia.svg (89) Emil Sayfutdinov 5411151315
2 Flag of Denmark.svg (25) Peter Kildemand 4811121312
3 Flag of Denmark.svg (5) Nicki Pedersen 441413611
4 Flag of Slovakia.svg (1) Martin Vaculík 41714128
5 Flag of Poland.svg (27) Janusz Kołodziej 38146810
6 Flag of Latvia.svg (21) Maksims Bogdanovs 3488117
7 Flag of Croatia.svg (19) Jurica Pavlic 3139118
8 Flag of Sweden.svg (100) Andreas Jonsson 319598
9 Flag of Poland.svg (20) Tomasz Gollob 279459
10 Flag of Latvia.svg (169) Andžejs Ļebedevs 227843
11 Flag of Poland.svg (33) Adrian Miedziński 219543
12 Flag of Russia.svg (111) Grigory Laguta 17–––17
13 Flag of Poland.svg (69) Patryk Dudek 16412––
14 Flag of Denmark.svg (313) Kenni Larsen 146332
15 Flag of Sweden.svg (13) Jonas Davidsson 145531
16 Flag of Germany.svg (84) Martin Smolinski 1353–5
17 Flag of Denmark.svg (16) Niels-Kristian Iversen 10––10–
18 Flag of Denmark.svg (15) Michael Jepsen Jensen 9––9–
19 Flag of Poland.svg (16) Rune Holta 7–––7
20 Flag of Germany.svg (16) Christian Hefenbrock 44–––
- Flag of Russia.svg (16) Vitaly Bielousov 4–4––
22 Flag of Denmark.svg (16) Rasmus Jensen 2––2–
23 Flag of Latvia.svg (18) Ķasts Puodžuks 1––1–
- Flag of Denmark.svg (17) Patrick Hougaard 1––1–
25 Flag of Germany.svg (17) Kai Huckenbeck 00–––
- Flag of Poland.svg (17) Artur Czaja 0–––0
Flag of Germany.svg (18) Tobias Busch —ns–––
Flag of Russia.svg (17) Sergey Agaltsov —–ns––
Flag of Russia.svg (18) Michail Litvinov —–ns––
Flag of Poland.svg (18) Borys Miturski —–––ns
2014 Speedway European Champion
Flag of Russia.svg
Emil Sayfutdinov
First title

See also

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