Speedway European Championship
The Speedway European Championship is an individual speedway competition consisting of a series of stand-alone events over the course of a season to determine the European champion.History
From 1955 to 1975, a European Final was staged as a qualifying round for the World Speedway Championship, although this did not include British riders who had a separate qualifying round. The European Championships were inaugurated in 2001, organised by European Motorcycle Union. In 2012 this was replaced by a series of four finals. Regardless of that, ISEC was struggling with prestige and promotion and the best European riders were mostly avoiding this contest.
On 20 December 2012 at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland it was announced that the competition would be replaced by a new series similar in format to the Speedway Grand Prix. The Speedway European Championship series is promoted by One Sporta Ltd. from Poland for next three seasons.
In 2019, the venues for the four rounds are Güstrow, Toruń, Vojens, and Chorzów.Medalists
Year | Venue | First | Second | Third |
2013 | 4 Rounds | Martin Vaculik | Nicki Pedersen | Grigory Laguta |
2014 | 4 Rounds | Emil Sayfutdinov | Peter Kildemand | Nicki Pedersen |
2015 | 4 Rounds | Emil Sayfutdinov | Nicki Pedersen | Antonio Lindback |
2016 | 4 Rounds | Nicki Pedersen | Vaclav Milik | Krzysztof Kasprzak |
2017 | 4 Rounds | Andzejs Lebedevs | Andriej Karpov | Vaclav Milik |
2018 | 4 Rounds | Leon Madsen | Jarosław Hampel | Robert Lambert |
2019 | 4 Rounds | Mikkel Michelsen | Grigory Laguta | Leon Madsen |
2020 | 5 Rounds | Robert Lambert | Leon Madsen | Grigory Laguta |