Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

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The Speedway Grand Prix Challenge or Speedway Grand Prix Qualification is an annual speedway qualifying tournament to determine the qualifiers for the Speedway Grand Prix, which is the World Championship of speedway. [1]

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History

From 1995 the Individual World Championship was replaced by the Grand Prix system. The 17 qualifiers for the 1995 Grand Prix were the top 10 from the 1994 World final, 5 seeds and 2 wildcards. [2]

From 1996, the leading riders from each Grand Prix series would automatically qualifying for the following year's event. The remaining places would be filled by the leading riders in the Challenge event and qualifiers from both the Continental Speedway Final and Intercontinental Final. [3] However, the latter two finals would come to end in 2000 and 2001 respectively.

Format and winners

YearFormatWinnerOther qualifiers
1996 8 to qualify Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leigh Adams [4] Flag of England.svg Marvyn Cox, Flag of Sweden.svg Peter Karlsson, Flag of Denmark.svg Tommy Knudsen, Flag of England.svg Joe Screen, Flag of England.svg Gary Havelock, Flag of Australia (converted).svg Craig Boyce, Flag of England.svg Andy Smith
1997 4 to qualify Flag of England.svg Simon Wigg [5] [6] Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leigh Adams, Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Karlsson, Flag of England.svg Andy Smith
1998 4 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Piotr Protasiewicz [7] Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Dannö, Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leigh Adams, Flag of Australia (converted).svg Craig Boyce
1999 8 to qualify Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leigh Adams [8] Flag of Denmark.svg Brian Andersen, Flag of Sweden.svg Henrik Gustafsson, Flag of England.svg Andy Smith, Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Dannö, Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Karlsson, Flag of England.svg Joe Screen, Flag of Denmark.svg John Jørgensen
2000 10 to qualify Flag of the United States.svg Billy Hamill [9] Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Karlsson, Flag of England.svg Carl Stonehewer, Flag of Denmark.svg Brian Karger, Flag of Sweden.svg Henrik Gustafsson, Flag of England.svg Mark Loram, Flag of England.svg Andy Smith, Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Antonín Kasper Jr., Flag of Sweden.svg Peter Karlsson, Flag of Denmark.svg Brian Andersen
2001 10 to qualify Flag of Sweden.svg Peter Karlsson [10] Flag of England.svg Carl Stonehewer, Flag of Denmark.svg Nicki Pedersen, Flag of Norway.svg Rune Holta, Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Karlsson, Flag of Poland.svg Piotr Protasiewicz, Flag of Sweden.svg Jimmy Nilsen, Flag of England.svg Joe Screen, Flag of Denmark.svg Brian Andersen, Flag of England.svg Andy Smith
2002 6 to qualify Flag of the United States.svg Greg Hancock [11] Flag of Denmark.svg Nicki Pedersen, Flag of England.svg Scott Nicholls, Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Lukáš Dryml, Flag of England.svg Carl Stonehewer, Flag of England.svg Andy Smith
2003 6 to qualify Flag of England.svg Lee Richardson [12] Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Bohumil Brhel, Flag of Poland.svg Piotr Protasiewicz, Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Lukáš Dryml, Flag of Denmark.svg Bjarne Pedersen, Flag of Poland.svg Tomasz Bajerski
2004 6 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Piotr Protasiewicz [13] Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Bohumil Brhel, Flag of Denmark.svg Bjarne Pedersen, Flag of Finland.svg Kai Laukkanen, Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Aleš Dryml Jr., Flag of Denmark.svg Jesper B Jensen
2005 2 to qualify Flag of Sweden.svg Antonio Lindbäck [14] Flag of Poland.svg Tomasz Chrzanowski
2006No qualifying
2007 3 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Wiesław Jaguś [15] Flag of Norway.svg Rune Holta, Flag of Denmark.svg Hans Andersen
2008 3 to qualify Flag of Denmark.svg Niels Kristian Iversen Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Lukáš Dryml, Flag of Denmark.svg Bjarne Pedersen
2009 3 to qualify Flag of Denmark.svg Kenneth Bjerre Flag of Poland.svg Grzegorz Walasek, Flag of Poland.svg Sebastian Ułamek
2010 3 to qualify Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Zetterström Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Holder, Flag of Poland.svg Jarosław Hampel
2011 3 to qualify Flag of Russia.svg Artem Laguta Flag of Sweden.svg Antonio Lindbäck, Flag of Sweden.svg Fredrik Lindgren
2012 3 to qualify Flag of Sweden.svg Antonio Lindbäck Flag of Denmark.svg Bjarne Pedersen, Flag of Poland.svg Piotr Protasiewicz
2013 3 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Krzysztof Kasprzak Flag of Slovenia.svg Matej Žagar, Flag of Denmark.svg Niels-Kristian Iversen
2014 5 to qualify Flag of Denmark.svg Niels-Kristian Iversen+ Flag of Poland.svg Krzysztof Kasprzak, Flag of Denmark.svg Kenneth Bjerre, Flag of Germany.svg Martin Smolinski, Flag of England.svg Chris Harris
2015 4 to qualify Flag of Slovenia.svg Matej Žagar+ Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Doyle, Flag of England.svg Chris Harris, Flag of Poland.svg Maciej Janowski
2016 3 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Bartosz Zmarzlik Flag of Poland.svg Piotr Pawlicki Jr., Flag of England.svg Chris Harris
2017 3 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Patryk Dudek Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Vaculík, Flag of Sweden.svg Fredrik Lindgren
2018 3 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Przemysław Pawlicki Flag of Russia.svg Artem Laguta, Flag of England.svg Craig Cook
2019 3 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Janusz Kołodziej Flag of Denmark.svg Niels-Kristian Iversen, Flag of Sweden.svg Antonio Lindbäck
2020 3 to qualify Flag of Slovenia.svg Matej Žagar Flag of Denmark.svg Niels-Kristian Iversen, Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Fricke
2021 3 to qualify Flag of Slovenia.svg Matej Žagar Flag of Sweden.svg Oliver Berntzon, Flag of Poland.svg Krzysztof Kasprzak
2022 3 to qualify Flag of Poland.svg Paweł Przedpełski Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Fricke, Flag of Poland.svg Patryk Dudek
2023 3 to qualify Flag of Sweden.svg Kim Nilsson Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Holder, Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Fricke
2024 3 to qualify Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Doyle Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Vaculik+, Flag of Poland.svg Szymon Woźniak, Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jan Kvěch
2025 4 to qualify [16]

+ Already qualified for the Grand Prix series

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