2016 Speedway European Championship

2016 Speedway European Championship
1st Nicki Pedersen
2nd Václav Milík
3rd Krzysztof Kasprzak

The championship was won by Nicki Pedersen, who claimed the title for the first time. 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.

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.
Václav Milík Nicki Pedersen Krzysztof Kasprzak
Calendar
Qualification Rounds
Semi Final 1 30 April Debrecen , Hungary
Semi Final 2 7 May Mureck, Austria
Semi Final 3 15 May Liberec, Czech Republic
Semi Final 4 15 May Zarnovica, Slovakia
SEC Challenge
Challenge Final 27 May Torun, Poland
Championship Series
Round 1 16 July Güstrow, Germany
Round 2 6 August Daugavpils, Latvia
Round 3 20 August Tolyatti, Russia
Round 4 17 September Rybnik, Poland
Poland Germany Sweden Poland
1 Nicki Pedersen 3 Denmark 7 6 10 17 40
2 Václav Milík 13 Czech Republic 8 9 10 11 38
3 Krzysztof Kasprzak 507 Poland 11 5 8 14 38
4 Grigory Laguta 7 Russia 13 14 10 37
5 Leon Madsen 66 Denmark 7 8 11 11 37
6 Antonio Lindbäck 85 Sweden 8 7 14 8 37
7 Emil Sayfutdinov 89 Russia 8 10 5 12 35
8 Przemysław Pawlicki 59 Poland 9 9 8 7 33
9 Andžejs Ļebedevs 29 Latvia 8 7 6 5 26
10 Joonas Kylmäkorpi 610 Finland 14 5 6 25
11 Martin Vaculík 54 slovakia 12 4 8 0 24
12 Janusz Kołodziej 27 Poland 9 4 6 5 24
13 Hans N. Andersen 34 Denmark 7 8 9 24
14 Anders Thomsen 5 Denmark 6 9 5 0 20
15 Peter Ljung 36 Sweden 5 2 3 6 16
16 Maksims Bogdanovs 16 Latvia 11 11
17 Kai Huckenbeck 15 Germany 9 9
18 Kacper Woryna 16 Poland 6 6
19 Nicolás Covatti 78 Italy 1 4 5
20 Tobias Busch 16 Germany 4 4
21 Andrey Kudryashov 16 Russia 3 3
22 Robert Chimel 17 Poland 3 3
23 Tobias Kroner 17 Germany 1 1
24 Dominik Kucera 18 Poland 1 1
25 Mikhail Litvinov 17 Russia 0 0
26 Gleb Chugunov 18 Russia 0 0