2003 Speedway World Cup

Speedway World Cup
Speedway World Cup
Venues	Holsted, Outrup, and Vojens
Location	Denmark
Start date	3 August
End date	9 August
Nations	12
Champions
	Sweden
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The 2003 Speedway World Cup (SWC) was the 3rd FIM Speedway World Cup season. The final took place on 9 August 2003 in Vojens, Denmark. The tournament was won by Sweden (62 pts) and they beat Australia (57 points), host team Denmark (53 pts) and Poland (49 pts), Great Britain (44 pts) in the Final.^[1]^[2]

Qualification

Qualifying round
11 May 2003
Latvijas Spidveja Centrs, Daugavpils

Pos.	National team	Pts.
1	Germany	65
2	Slovenia	62+4
3	Latvia	62+3
4	Italy	39
5	Austria	19

Venues

Three cities were selected to host SWC finals events:

City	Stadium names
Holsted	Holsted Speedway Center
Outrup	Outrup Speedway Center
Vojens	Vojens Speedway Center

Qualifying round

Holsted (1)

Event 1
3 August 2003
Holsted

Pos.	National team	Pts.
1	Denmark	62
2	Czech Republic	50
3	Finland	32
4	Germany	10

Outrup (2)

Event 2
4 August 2003
Outrup
Latvia team (3rd in Qualifying round) was replaced by Italy (4th in Qualifying round)

Pos.	National team	Pts.
1	Australia	62
2	Great Britain	60
3	Slovenia	28
4	Italy	6

Holsted (3)

Event 3
5 August 2003
Holsted

Pos.	National team	Pts.
1	Poland	58
2	Sweden	56
3	Russia	28
4	Hungary	9

Race-off

Race-Off
7 August 2003^[3]
Outrup

Pos.	National team	Pts.
1	Great Britain	80
2	Sweden	63
3	Czech Republic	61
4	Finland	26
5	Russia	24

Final

The 2003 Speedway World Cup Final took place on 9 August in the Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark.^[4]^[5]

Results

Pos.	National team	Pts.
1	Sweden	62
2	Australia	57
3	Denmark	53
4	Poland	49
5	Great Britain	44

Heat details

Placing	Team / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
1	Sweden	62	0	4	6	8	11	15	17	18	21	25	26	26	29	31	31	35	35	37	45	49	50	52	55	59	62
	(1) Andreas Jonsson	12	0								3				3							4		2
	(2) Mikael Max	25		4								4				2		4			8J				3
	(3) Peter Ljung	10			2			4									0		0							4
	(4) Peter Karlsson	10				2			2				1							2							3
	(5) David Ruud	5					3			1				0							-		1

2	Australia	57	4	7	7	10	14	15	19	23	25	25	25	28	32	36	40	42	46	50	50	52	54	54	55	56	57
	(1) Jason Crump	17	4							4						4			4								1
	(2) Todd Wiltshire	15		3							2						4			4			2
	(3) Jason Lyons	0			X							X	X								0			0
	(4) Ryan Sullivan	10				3		1						3								2			1
	(5) Leigh Adams	15					4		4						4			2								1

3	Denmark	53	3	4	8	9	11	13	13	15	15	18	22	23	25	26	27	28	31	34	36	36	40	48	50	53	53
	(1) Nicki Pedersen	21	3									3		1						3				8J		3
	(2) Hans N. Andersen	7		1				2							2						2						0
	(3) Bjarne Pedersen	9			4				0							1						X	4
	(4) Ronni Pedersen	4				1				2							-	1						-
	(5) Charlie Gjedde	12					2				X		4				1		3						2

4	Poland	49	2	4	5	9	10	13	16	16	17	18	21	25	25	25	27	27	28	28	31	32	38	41	45	45	49
	(1) Tomasz Gollob	20	2						3								2				3		6J		4
	(2) Tomasz Bajerski	6		2						0			3									1				0
	(3) Jarosław Hampel	13			1						1			4				0						3			4
	(4) Sebastian Ułamek	6				4						1			0				1				-
	(5) Piotr Protasiewicz	4					1	3								X				0				-

5	Great Britain	44	1	1	4	4	4	4	5	8	16	18	20	22	23	26	29	32	34	35	36	39	39	40	40	42	44
	(1) Gary Havelock	3	1					0					2					-					X
	(2) Dean Barker	6		0					1					2					2					1
	(3) David Norris	8			3					3					1					1					0
	(4) Lee Richardson	14				0					8J					3					1					2
	(5) Scott Nicholls	13					0					2					3	3				3					2
Placing	Team / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25

M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell

Helmet colours was permanent for each teams (Red, Blue, White, Yellow/Black and Green). Colours in diagrams means gate positions:
gate A – inside	gate B	gate C	gate D	gate E – outside

References

^ world.speedway.org Archived 2003-08-26 at the Wayback Machine; Retrieved on 2008-12-26
^ "2003 WORLD CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
^ "Brits roar into their first final". Wolverhampton Express and Star. 8 August 2003. Retrieved 6 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ world.speedway.org Archived 2003-08-26 at the Wayback Machine; Retrieved on 2008-12-26
^ "2003 WORLD TEAM CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 15 July 2021.