2020 Speedway European Championship

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.

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

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

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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

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

Calendar

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Championship Series

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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   Toruń, Poland

Rose Motoarena

  Leon Madsen   Robert Lambert   Nicki Pedersen   Bartosz Smektała results
2 8 July   Bydgoszcz, Poland

Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium

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

Rybnik Municipal Stadium

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

Stadion Miejski

  Robert Lambert   Timo Lahti   Grigory Laguta   Krzysztof Kasprzak results
5 29 July   Toruń, Poland

Rose Motoarena

  Robert Lambert   Leon Madsen   Timo Lahti   Kai Huckenbeck results

Final Classification

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

See also

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References

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  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.
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