2019 Speedway European Championship

2019 Speedway European Championship
1st Mikkel Michelsen
2nd Grigory Laguta
3rd Leon Madsen

The championship was won by Mikkel Michelsen who beat Grigory Laguta in a run-off after both riders had finished the series tied on 45 points. Defending champion Leon Madsen, who missed one round through injury, also won a run-off with Kacper Woryna to finish third, while Bartosz Smektała completed the top five.


For the 2019 season, 15 permanent riders were joined at each SEC Final by one wildcard and two track reserves.
Defending champion, Leon Madsen from Denmark was automatically invited to participate in all final events, while Jarosław Hampel, Robert Lambert, Antonio Lindbäck and Mikkel Michelsen secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top five of the general classification in the 2018 season.
Five riders qualified through the SEC Challenge, while Nicki Pedersen, Anders Thomsen, Kai Huckenbeck, Paweł Przedpełski and Bartosz Smektała were named as series wildcards. 
Grigory Laguta Mikkel Michelsen Leon Madsen
Calendar
Qualification Rounds
Semi Final 1 27 April Gorican, Croatia
Semi Final 2 27 April Poznan, Poland
Semi Final 3 28 April Debrecen , Hungary
Semi Final 4 1 May Rivne, Ukraine
SEC Challenge
Challenge Final 25 May Nagyhalász, Hungary
Championship Series
Round 1 14 July Güstrow, Germany
Round 2 27 July Torun, Poland
Round 3 10 August Vojens, Denmark
Round 4 28 September Chorzów, Poland
Germany Poland Denmark Poland
1 Mikkel Michelsen 155 Denmark 7 8 15 15 45
2 Grigory Laguta 111 Russia 15 12 7 11 45
3 Leon Madsen 30 Denmark 11 15 13 39
4 Kacper Woryna 223 Poland 8 10 11 10 39
5 Bartosz Smektała 115 Poland 12 7 10 7 36
6 Michael Jepsen Jensen 52 Denmark 10 6 11 8 35
7 Nicki Pedersen 110 Denmark 8 11 14 33
8 Paweł Przedpełski 323 Poland 3 8 2 14 27
9 Jarosław Hampel 33 Poland 7 8 4 6 25
10 Kai Huckenbeck 744 Germany 9 5 8 2 24
11 Antonio Lindbäck 85 Sweden 11 2 1 9 23
12 Václav Milík 225 Czech Republic 8 4 5 5 22
13 Robert Lambert 505 Great Britain 4 8 6 18
14 David Bellego 415 France 8 4 2 14
15 Anders Thomsen 11 Denmark 3 3 8 14
16 Adrian Miedziński 16 Poland 9 9
17 Timo Lahti 98 Finland 9 9
18 Andžejs Ļebedevs 29 Latvia 8 8
19 Andreas Lyager 17 Denmark 7 7
20 Frederik Jakobsen 18 Denmark 7 7
21 Andrey Kudriashov 191 Russia 6 6
22 Maksym Drabik 16 Poland 6 6
23 Jakub Miśkowiak 17 Poland 5 5
24 Peter Kildemand 16 Denmark 3 3
25 Kevin Wölbert 16 Germany 2 2
26 Igor Kopeć-Sobczyński 18 Poland 0 0