2020 Speedway European Championship

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2020 Speedway European Championship
Season details
Dates4 July – 29 July
Events5
Cities5
Countries1
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats(in 5 events)
Winners
Champion GBR Robert Lambert
Runner-up DEN Leon Madsen
3rd place RUS Grigory Laguta

The 2020 Speedway European Championship season was the eighth season of the Speedway European Championship (SEC) era, and the 20th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the seventh series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland.

Every round of the 2020 championship took place in Poland due to the global coronavirus pandemic. For the first time the winner of the series earned a spot in the 2021 Speedway Grand Prix series.[1]

The title was won by Robert Lambert, who beat Leon Madsen by three points. The pair won all five rounds between them, with Madsen winning the first three before Lambert won the last two. Grigory Laguta took third place overall, while defending champion Mikkel Michelsen claimed fourth.

Qualification[]

For the 2020 season, 15 permanent riders were joined at each SEC Final by one wildcard and two track reserves.

Defending champion, Mikkel Michelsen from Denmark was automatically invited to participate in all final events, while Grigory Laguta, Leon Madsen, Kacper Woryna and Bartosz Smektała secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top five of the general classification in the 2019 season. Due to the cancellation of the SEC Challenge, the rest of the line-up was completed by nominations from each of the national federations.[2]

Qualified riders[]

# Riders 2019 place SEC Ch place Appearance
155 Denmark Mikkel Michelsen 1 3rd
111 Russia Grigory Laguta 2 7th
30 Denmark Leon Madsen 3 5th
223 Poland Kacper Woryna 4 3rd
115 Poland Bartosz Smektała 5 2nd
52 Denmark Michael Jepsen Jensen 6 4th
110 Denmark Nicki Pedersen 7 7th
744 Germany Kai Huckenbeck 10 3rd
225 Czech Republic Václav Milík 12 6th
505 United Kingdom Robert Lambert 13 3rd
415 France David Bellego 14 2nd
98 Finland Timo Lahti 17 1st
91 Russia Andrey Kudriashov 21 2nd
507 Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak 5th
36 Sweden Peter Ljung 2nd

Calendar[]

Championship Series[]

All five events in the final series took place in Poland due to the coronavirus pandemic.[3]

Round Date City and venue Winner Runner-up 3rd placed 4th placed Results
1 4 July Poland Toruń, Poland

Rose Motoarena

Denmark Leon Madsen United Kingdom Robert Lambert Denmark Nicki Pedersen Poland Bartosz Smektała
2 8 July Poland Bydgoszcz, Poland

Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium

Denmark Leon Madsen Denmark Mikkel Michelsen Russia Grigory Laguta Russia Emil Sayfutdinov
3 22 July Poland Rybnik, Poland

Rybnik Municipal Stadium

Denmark Leon Madsen Russia Grigory Laguta Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Denmark Nicki Pedersen
4 23 July Poland Gniezno, Poland

Stadion Miejski

United Kingdom Robert Lambert Finland Timo Lahti Russia Grigory Laguta Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak
5 29 July Poland Toruń, Poland

Rose Motoarena

United Kingdom Robert Lambert Denmark Leon Madsen Finland Timo Lahti Germany Kai Huckenbeck

Final Classification[]

[4]

Pos. Rider Points Poland Poland Poland Poland Poland
1 United Kingdom (505) Robert Lambert 67 14 10 12 17 14
2 Denmark (30) Leon Madsen 64 12 14 16 9 13
3 Russia (111) Grigory Laguta 52 7 13 13 11 8
4 Denmark (155) Mikkel Michelsen 46 10 13 7 8 8
5 Poland (115) Bartosz Smektała 45 11 7 8 9 10
6 Denmark (110) Nicki Pedersen 45 14 10 11 0 10
7 Finland (98) Timo Lahti 43 8 8 2 14 11
8 Poland (223) Kacper Woryna 33 8 4 7 5 9
9 France (415) David Bellego 31 6 6 10 6 3
10 Czech Republic (225) Václav Milík 26 6 6 5 6 3
11 Poland (16) Bartosz Zmarzlik 25 10 – 15 – –
12 Germany (744) Kai Huckenbeck 25 3 3 4 3 12
13 Poland (507) Krzysztof Kasprzak 25 7 1 3 9 5
14 Sweden (36) Peter Ljung 23 1 5 6 6 5
15 Denmark (52) Michael Jepsen Jensen 22 3 4 4 7 4
16 Russia (191) Andrey Kudriashov 21 5 8 3 5 0
17 Russia (16) Emil Sayfutdinov 14 – 14 – – –
18 Poland (16) Paweł Przedpełski 10 – – – – 10
19 Poland (16) Patryk Dudek 8 – – – 8 –
20 Poland (17) 3 – – – 3 –
21 Poland (17) 1 1 – – – 0
22 Poland (18) 1 – – – 0 1
23 Poland (18) Kamil Brzozowski 0 0 – – – –
24 Russia (17) Sergey Logachev 0 – – 0 – –
25 Poland (18) 0 – – – 0 –

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "SEC stars set for SGP 2021". SGP. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Revised SEC line-up". SEC.
  3. ^ "2020 SEC Events". SEC.
  4. ^ "2020 SEC Standings". SEC.

External links[]

speedwayeuro.com

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