Speedway European Championship 2014

2014 Speedway European Championship

1st Emil Sayfutdinov 2nd Peter Kildemand 3rd Nicki Pedersen The 2014 Speedway European Championship season was the second season of the Speedway European Championship (SEC) era, and decided the 14th UEM (FIM Europe) Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the second series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland. The championship was won by Russia's Emil Sayfutdinov, six points ahead of Danish rider Peter Kildemand. Third place went to another Danish rider, Nicki Pedersen, who was another four points behind Kildemand. Pedersen had won the opening two races of the season, before Sayfutdinov moved ahead in the standings after a win at Holsted in Denmark. A fourth-place finish in Częstochowa – an event won by Russian Grigory Laguta – was enough to give Sayfutdinov the title. For the 2014 season, 15 permanent riders were joined at each SEC Final by one wild card and two track reserves. Defending champion, Martin Vaculík from Slovakia was automatically invited to participate in all final events. Nicki Pedersen and Grigorij Laguta secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top 3 of the general classification in the 2013 season. Emil Sayfutdinov, Andreas Jonsson and Tomasz Gollob received and accepted a wild card to compete in the 2014 Speedway European Championships. In the 2014 season, the participating riders had the possibility to choose the number which would be on their race jacket. In the past, the riders in all tournaments had an obligatory number which was given to them by the organizers. During the first tournament, the defending champion wore a yellow race jacket and for all following tournaments, the current general classification leader wore the jacket Peter Kildemand Emil Sayfutdinov Nicki Pedersen Calendar Qualification Rounds Semi Final 1 17 May Daugavpils, Latvia Semi Final 2 17 May Krsko, Slovenia Semi Final 3 25 May Žarnovica, Slovakia SEC Challenge Challenge Final 25 May Debrecen, Hungary Championship Series Round 1 6 July Güstrow, Germany Round 2 20 July Tolyatti, Russia Round 3 9 August Holsted, Denmark Round 4 19 September Częstochowa, Poland 1 Emil Sayfutdinov 89 11 15 13 15 54 2 Peter Kildemand 25 11 12 13 12 48 3 Nicki Pedersen 5 14 13 6 11 44 4 Martin Vaculík 1 7 14 12 8 41 5 Janusz Kołodziej 27 14 6 8 10 38 6 Maksims Bogdanovs 21 8 8 11 7 34 7  Jurica Pavlic 19 3 9 11 8 31 8  Andreas Jonsson 100 9 5 9 8 31 9  Tomasz Gollob 20 9 4 5 9 27 10  Andžejs Ļebedevs 169 7 8 4 3 22 11  Adrian Miedziński 33 9 5 4 3 21 12  Grigory Laguta 111 – – – 17 17 13  Patryk Dudek 69 4 12 – – 16 14  Kenni Larsen 313 6 3 3 2 14 15  Jonas Davidsson 13 5 5 3 1 14 16  Martin Smolinski 84 5 3 – 5 13 17  Niels-Kristian Iversen 16 – – 10 – 10 18 Michael Jepsen Jensen 15 – – 9 – 9 19  Rune Holta 16 – – – 7 7 20  Christian Hefenbrock 16 4 – – – 4  Vitaly Bielousov 16 – 4 – – 4 22  Rasmus Jensen 16 – – 2 – 2 23  Ķasts Puodžuks 18 – – 1 – 1  Patrick Hougaard 17 – – 1 – 1 25  Kai Huckenbeck 17 0 – – – 0  Artur Czaja 17 – – – 0 0 Tobias Busch 18 NS – – – —  Sergey Agaltsov 17 – NS – – —  Michail Litvinov 18 – NS – – —  Borys Miturski 18 – – – NS —