2016 Speedway European Championship

2016 Speedway European Championship
2016 Speedway European Championship
Season details
Dates	16 July – 17 September
Events	4
Cities	4
Countries	4
Riders	15 permanents ; 1 wild card(s); 2 track reserves
Heats	(in 4 events)
Winners
Champion	DEN Nicki Pedersen
Runner-up	CZE Václav Milík
3rd place	POL Krzysztof Kasprzak
	← 2015; Speedway European Championship; 2017 →;

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.^[1] 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 edit

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. ^[2]

#	Riders	2015 place	SEC Ch place	Appearance
89	Emil Sayfutdinov	1		4th
3	Nicki Pedersen	2		4th
85	Antonio Lindbäck	3		2nd
27	Janusz Kołodziej	4		3rd
54	Martin Vaculík	5		4th
507	Krzysztof Kasprzak	-	1	2nd
66	Leon Madsen		2	1st
610	Joonas Kylmäkorpi		3	1st
59	Przemysław Pawlicki	7	4	2nd
34	Hans N. Andersen	9	5	3rd
36	Peter Ljung		6	1st
5	Anders Thomsen		7	1st
7	Grigory Laguta	6		4th
13	Václav Milík	12		2nd
29	Andžejs Ļebedevs			2nd

The calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semifinal events and one SEC Challenge event.

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
Semifinal 1	30 April	Debrecen, Hungary Speedway Stadium	Eduard Krčmář	Martin Smolinski	Peter Ljung	Leon Madsen	results
Semifinal 2	7 May	Mureck, Austria Speedway Stadium	Michael Jepsen Jensen	Hans N. Andersen	Krzysztof Kasprzak	Nicolas Covatti	results
Semifinal 3	15 May	Liberec, Czech Republic Speedway Stadium	Mateusz Szczepaniak	Artem Laguta	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Tomasz Jędrzejak	results
Semifinal 4	15 May	Zarnovica, Slovakia Speedway Stadium	Fredrik Lindgren	Anders Thomsen	Przemysław Pawlicki	Thomas H. Jonasson	results
SEC Challenge	27 May	Olching, Germany Stadion Olching	Krzysztof Kasprzak	Leon Madsen	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Przemysław Pawlicki	results

A four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series,^[3] with events in Germany, Latvia, Russia and Poland.

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	16 July	Güstrow, Germany Speedway Stadion	Martin Vaculík	Krzysztof Kasprzak	Kai Huckenbeck	Janusz Kołodziej	results
2	6 August	Daugavpils, Latvia Spīdveja centrs	Grigory Laguta	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Emil Sayfutdinov	Maksims Bogdanovs	results
3	20 August	Tolyatti, Russia IMega-Lada Stadium	Grigory Laguta	Antonio Lindbäck	Leon Madsen	Hans N. Andersen	results
4	17 September	Rybnik, Poland Stadion Miejski	Nicki Pedersen	Václav Milík Jr.	Krzysztof Kasprzak	Emil Sayfutdinov	results