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Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The Speedway Grand Prix Challenge or Speedway Grand Prix Qualification is an annual speedway qualifying tournament to determine the qualifiers for the Speedway Grand Prix, which is the World Championship of speedway.[1]

Speedway Grand Prix Challenge
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification
Sportmotorcycle speedway
Founded1995
Most recent
champion(s)		Sweden Kim Nilsson

History

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From 1995 the Individual World Championship was replaced by the Grand Prix system. The 17 qualifiers for the 1995 Grand Prix were the top 10 from the 1994 World final, 5 seeds and 2 wildcards.[2]

From 1996, the leading riders from each Grand Prix series would automatically qualifying for the following year's event. The remaining places would be filled by the leading riders in the Challenge event and qualifiers from both the Continental Speedway Final and Intercontinental Final.[3] However, the latter two finals would come to end in 2000 and 2001 respectively.

Format and winners

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Year Format Winner Other qualifiers
1996 8 to qualify   Leigh Adams[4]   Marvyn Cox,   Peter Karlsson,   Tommy Knudsen,   Joe Screen,   Gary Havelock,   Craig Boyce,   Andy Smith
1997 4 to qualify   Simon Wigg[5][6]   Leigh Adams,   Mikael Karlsson,   Andy Smith
1998 4 to qualify   Piotr Protasiewicz[7]   Stefan Dannö,   Leigh Adams,   Craig Boyce
1999 8 to qualify   Leigh Adams[8]   Brian Andersen,   Henrik Gustafsson,   Andy Smith,   Stefan Dannö,   Mikael Karlsson,   Joe Screen,   John Jørgensen
2000 10 to qualify   Billy Hamill[9]   Mikael Karlsson,   Carl Stonehewer,   Brian Karger,   Henrik Gustafsson,   Mark Loram,   Andy Smith,   Antonín Kasper Jr.,   Peter Karlsson,   Brian Andersen
2001 10 to qualify   Peter Karlsson[10]   Carl Stonehewer,   Nicki Pedersen,   Rune Holta,   Mikael Karlsson,   Piotr Protasiewicz,   Jimmy Nilsen,   Joe Screen,   Brian Andersen,   Andy Smith
2002 6 to qualify   Greg Hancock[11]   Nicki Pedersen,   Scott Nicholls,   Lukáš Dryml,   Carl Stonehewer,   Andy Smith
2003 6 to qualify   Lee Richardson[12]   Bohumil Brhel,   Piotr Protasiewicz,   Lukáš Dryml,   Bjarne Pedersen,   Tomasz Bajerski
2004 6 to qualify   Piotr Protasiewicz[13]   Bohumil Brhel,   Bjarne Pedersen,   Kai Laukkanen,   Aleš Dryml Jr.,   Jesper B Jensen
2005 2 to qualify   Antonio Lindbäck[14]   Tomasz Chrzanowski
2006 No qualifying
2007 3 to qualify   Wiesław Jaguś[15]   Rune Holta,   Hans Andersen
2008 3 to qualify   Niels Kristian Iversen   Lukáš Dryml,   Bjarne Pedersen
2009 3 to qualify   Kenneth Bjerre   Grzegorz Walasek,   Sebastian Ułamek
2010 3 to qualify   Magnus Zetterström   Chris Holder,   Jarosław Hampel
2011 3 to qualify   Artem Laguta   Antonio Lindbäck,   Fredrik Lindgren
2012 3 to qualify   Antonio Lindbäck   Bjarne Pedersen,   Piotr Protasiewicz
2013 3 to qualify   Krzysztof Kasprzak   Matej Žagar,   Niels-Kristian Iversen
2014 5 to qualify   Niels-Kristian Iversen+   Krzysztof Kasprzak,   Kenneth Bjerre,   Martin Smolinski,   Chris Harris
2015 4 to qualify   Matej Žagar+   Jason Doyle,   Chris Harris,   Maciej Janowski
2016 3 to qualify   Bartosz Zmarzlik   Piotr Pawlicki Jr.,   Chris Harris
2017 3 to qualify   Patryk Dudek   Martin Vaculík,   Fredrik Lindgren
2018 3 to qualify   Przemysław Pawlicki   Artem Laguta,   Craig Cook
2019 3 to qualify   Janusz Kołodziej   Niels-Kristian Iversen,   Antonio Lindbäck
2020 3 to qualify   Matej Žagar   Niels-Kristian Iversen,   Max Fricke
2021 3 to qualify   Matej Žagar   Oliver Berntzon,   Krzysztof Kasprzak
2022 3 to qualify   Paweł Przedpełski   Max Fricke,   Patryk Dudek
2023 3 to qualify   Kim Nilsson   Jack Holder,   Max Fricke
2024 3 to qualify   Jason Doyle   Martin Vaculik+,   Szymon Woźniak,   Jan Kvěch
2025 4 to qualify[16]

+ Already qualified for the Grand Prix series

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Rules". FIM. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Unfancied Swede gets a taste of big night". Birmingham Daily Post. 22 August 1994. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "HISTORICAL LIST OF RESULTS 1995-2013 Speedway Grand Prix - Qualifications". Speedway History. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  4. ^ "1995 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  5. ^ "1996 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Karlsson wins GP berth". Birmingham Daily Post. 7 October 1996. Retrieved 20 January 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "1997 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  8. ^ "1998 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  9. ^ "1999 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  10. ^ "2000 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  11. ^ "2001 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  12. ^ "2002 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  13. ^ "2003 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  14. ^ "2004". Speedway Info. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  15. ^ "2006". Speedway Info. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  16. ^ "Four 2025 Speedway GP Places on the line at FIM SGP Challenge". FIM. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
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