2022 Individual Ice Racing World Championship

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2022 Individual Ice Racing World Championship
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Martin Haarahiltunen won the world title in the absence of the Russian riders.
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The 2022 FIM Ice Speedway World Championship was the 56th edition of the FIM Individual Ice Racing World Championship season. [1]

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Martin Haarahiltunen of Sweden won the World Championship series to become world champion for the first time and the first Swedish rider to win individual gold in twenty years. He won the title by virtue of overtaking the championship leader and strong favourite Johann Weber in the final round. Haarahiltunen completed a six race maximum while Weber crashed and was injured. [2] [3] [4] [5]

The leading Russian riders competed in the first two rounds but were then banned following the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme restrictions imposed on Russian and Belarusian motorcycle riders, teams, officials, and competitions as a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [6]

In the first two rounds Russian athletes competed as a neutral competitors using the designation MFR (Motorcycle Federation of Russia), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes. [7]

Final Series

VenueDateWinnersReport
1 Flag of Russia.svg Tolyatti 12 FebruaryWhite flag of surrender.svg Nikita Bogdanov
2 Flag of Russia.svg Tolyatti 13 FebruaryWhite flag of surrender.svg Nikita Bogdanov
3 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Heerenveen 2 April Flag of Sweden.svg Martin Haarahiltunen
4 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Heerenveen 3 April Flag of Sweden.svg Martin Haarahiltunen

Classification

PosRiderPts
1 Flag of Sweden.svg Martin Haarahiltunen 54
2 Flag of Germany.svg Johann Weber 51
3White flag of surrender.svg Nikita Bogdanov 40
4 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Lukáš Hutla 37
5 Flag of Austria.svg Harald Simon 34
6White flag of surrender.svg Igor Kononov 34
7 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jasper Iwema 31
8White flag of surrender.svg Dmitry Koltakov 30
9White flag of surrender.svg Dmitry Khomitsevich 30
10 Flag of Germany.svg Luca Bauer 26
11 Flag of Sweden.svg Jimmy Hörnell 22
12White flag of surrender.svg Dinar Valeev 22
13 Flag of Germany.svg Franz Mayerbüchler 21
14 Flag of Finland.svg Max Koivula 20
15 Flag of Sweden.svg Ove Ledström 20
16White flag of surrender.svg Ivan Khuzhin 20
17 Flag of Sweden.svg Joakim Söderström 18
18 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Andrej Diviš 16
19White flag of surrender.svg Igor Saidullin 13
20 Flag of Norway.svg Jo Sætre 9
21 Flag of Austria.svg Franz Zorn 9
22 Flag of Finland.svg Aki Ala-Riihimäki 8
23White flag of surrender.svg Nikita Toloknov 6
24 Flag of Finland.svg Henri Ahlbom 5
25 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jiří Wildt 4
26 Flag of Germany.svg Benedikt Monn 2
27 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Niek Schaap 2

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  2. ↑ "ALL OFFICIAL RESULTS - 2022 FIM ICE SPEEDWAY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP". EIS Speedway. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
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