Individual Speedway European Championship

Individual Speedway European Championship

Current season, competition or edition: 2020 Speedway European Championship
Sport	motorcycle speedway
Founded	2001
No. of teams	16 riders
Continent	Europe
Most recent champion(s)	Robert Lambert (2020)
Most titles	2 titles: RUS Emil Sayfutdinov SVN Matej Žagar

The Individual Speedway European Championship is an annual individual speedway event organized by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) to determine the champion of Europe. The competition was founded in 2001 and was initially staged as a one-off meeting before the single event was replaced by the Speedway European Championship series in 2012. As of 2020, the competition is staged over four rounds in a Grand Prix format, with the winner being the rider who accumulates the most points over the four rounds. The minimum age of a rider to compete is 16 years of age (starting on the date of the rider's birthday).

The current champion is Robert Lambert from Great Britain who won the title in 2020. Russia along with Denmark are the most successful countries having had four champions, Emil Sayfutdinov (2014 and 2015), Grigory Laguta (2011) and Renat Gafurov (2009), for Russia and Jesper B. Jensen (2005), Nicki Pedersen (2016), Leon Madsen (2018) and Mikkel Michelsen in (2019) for Denmark.

Winners

Year	Venue	Winners	2nd place	3rd place
2001	Heusden Zolder	Bohumil Brhel (14 pts)	Mariusz Staszewski (13 pts)	Krzysztof Cegielski (12+3 pts)
2002	Rybnik	Magnus Zetterström (12+3 pts)	Krzysztof Kasprzak (12+2 pts)	Rafał Szombierski (11+3 pts)
2003	Slaný	Krzysztof Kasprzak (12+3 pts)	Sławomir Drabik (12+2 pts)	Magnus Zetterström (11 pts)
2004	Holsted	Matej Žagar (14+3 pts)	Matej Ferjan (14+2 pts)	Hans N. Andersen (12 pts)
2005	Lonigo	Jesper B. Jensen (14+3 pts)	Aleš Dryml, Jr. (14+2 pts)	Kai Laukkanen (12 pts)
2006	Miskolc	Krzysztof Jabłoński (13+3 pts)	Grzegorz Walasek (13+2 pts)	Christian Hefenbrock (12 pts)
2007	Wiener Neustadt	Jurica Pavlic (14 pts)	Sebastian Ułamek (13 pts)	Patrick Hougaard (11 pts)
2008	Lendava	Matej Žagar (14 pts)	Sebastian Ułamek (10+3+3 pts)	Mads Korneliussen (10+2+2+2)
2009	Tolyatti	Renat Gafurov (13+3 pts)	Andriy Karpov (13+2 pts)	Aleš Dryml, Jr. (13+1 pts)
2010	Tarnów	Sebastian Ułamek (15 pts)	Aleš Dryml, Jr. (12 pts)	Andriy Karpov (11+3 pts)
2011	Rivne	Grigory Laguta (14+3 pts)	Tomasz Gapinski (14+2 pts)	Aleš Dryml, Jr. (12 pts)
Year	Venue	Winners	2nd place	3rd place

Speedway European Championship series (since 2012)

Year	Venue	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
2012	Four events	Aleš Dryml, Jr. (48 pts)	Robert Miśkowiak (44 pts)	Andriy Karpov (43 pts)
2013	Four events	Martin Vaculik (47 pts)	Nicki Pedersen (44 pts)	Grigory Laguta (42 pts)
2014	Four events	Emil Sayfutdinov (54 pts)	Peter Kildemand (48 pts)	Nicki Pedersen (44 pts)
2015	Four events	Emil Sayfutdinov (58 pts)	Nicki Pedersen (55 pts)	Antonio Lindbäck (51 pts)
2016	Four events	Nicki Pedersen (40 pts)	Václav Milík (38 pts)	Krzysztof Kasprzak (38 pts)
2017	Four events	Andžejs Ļebedevs (52 pts)	Artem Laguta (45 pts)	Václav Milík (44 pts)
2018	Four events	Leon Madsen (56 pts)	Jarosław Hampel (45 pts)	Robert Lambert (41 pts)
2019	Four events	Mikkel Michelsen (45 pts)	Grigory Laguta (45 pts)	Leon Madsen (39 pts)
2020	Four events	Robert Lambert (67 pts)	Leon Madsen (64 pts)	Grigory Laguta (52 pts)

Medals classification

Pos	National Team	Total
1.	Denmark	13	4	4	5
2.	Russia	8	4	2	2
3.	Poland	15	3	9	3
4.	Czech Republic	7	2	3	2
5.	Slovenia	3	2	1
6.	Sweden	3	1		2
7.	Great Britain	2	1		1
8.	Croatia	1	1
	Slovakia	1	1
	Latvia	1	1
11.	Ukraine	3		1	2
12.	Finland	1			1
	Germany	1			1

See also

• Motorcycle speedway