The 2008 Individual Speedway European Championship

Jurica Pavlič from Croatia is the defending European champion.

Calendar

Day Venue Winner Qualifying Rounds 27 April Neustadt/Donau Adrian Miedziński result 17 May Gyula Matej Ferjan result 18 May Lviv Tomasz Gapiński result Semi-Finals 24 May Terenzano Denis Gizatullin result 8 June Herxheim Mikael Max result 21 June Debrecen Daniil Ivanov result Final 24 August Lendava Matej Žagar result

Allocation Rules: Qualifying Rounds Riders placed 1st to 8th + 2R in Qualifying Round 1 will advance to Semi-Final 1. Riders placed 1st to 8th + 2R in Qualifying Round 2 will advance to Semi-Final 2. Riders placed 1st to 8th + 2R in Qualifying Round 3 will advance to Semi-Final 3.

Semi-Finals Riders placed 1st to 5th + 1R in semi-final 1 and Semi-Final 2 will qualify for the Final. Riders placed 1st to 6th in semi-final 3 will qualify for the Final. But, if no Slovak rider qualifies for the Final, then only 5 riders will qualify from Semi-Final 3. FMNs Total Qualification Semi-Finals F1 2 3 1 2 3 Czech Republic (ACCR) 71 2 2 2 Slovenia (AMZS) 42 1 1 Germany (DMSB) 72 1 2 2 Denmark (DMU) 62 2 2 France (FFM) 22 Belgium (FMB) 11 Italy (FMI) 3 1 2 Switzerland (FMS) 1 1 Ukraine (FMU) 3 2 1 Romania (FRM) 2 2 Croatia (HMS) 32 1 Netherlands (KNMV) 3 2 1 Latvia (LaMSF) 2 2 Hungary (MAMS) 4 2 2 Russia (MFR) 6 2 2 1 1 Austria (OeAMTC) 32 1 Poland (PZM) 82 1 2 1 2 Slovakia (SMF) 2 1 1 Finland (SML) 2 1 1 Sweden (SVEMO) 3 1 2 TOTAL 72 16 16 16 8 8 8

Qualifying rounds

Neustadt/Donau Qualifying Round 1 2008-04-27 (2pm) Neustadt/Donau Referee: ? Attendance: ? Best Time: ?

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (5) Adrian Miedziński 14 (3,3,2,3,3)2 (12) Adrian Rymel 13+3 (3,3,3,1,3)3 (7) Kevin Wölbert 13+2 (2,2,3,3,3)4 (3) Mads Korneliussen 11 (3,3,3,2,?)5 (1) Daniel Jeleniewski 10 (2,?,3,2,3)6 (10) Patrick Hougaard 10 (2,3,2,1,2)7 (2) Izak Šantej 8 (1,2,1,2,2)8 (14) Mathias Schultz 7 (3,?,2,0,2)9 (16) Maks Gregorič 6 (1,2,2,?,1)10 (17) Frank Facher 5+3 (2,3,?,?)11 (6) Ivan Vargek 5+2 (0,1,0,2,2)12 (15) Manuel Novotny 4 (?/-,1,0,3,0)13 (8) Fritz Wallner 4 (1,1,?,1,1)14 (13) Sirg Schützbach 3 (0,2,1,0,T/-)15 (9) Sebastien Trésarrieu 2 (1,?,1,D,0)16 (11) Nikola Martinec 2 (?,0,1,?/-,1)17 (4) Theo di Palma 1 (0,0,?,1,-) - (18) Sebastian Mack - -(17 Facher) in heats: 4, 14, 19, 20 Gyula Qualifying Round 2 2008-05-17 (5 pm) Christián László Municipal Sports Complex, Gyula Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 8 + 2R Changes: Riders 1 (GER), 9 (SWE) and 14 (NED) was replaced by two Track Reserves (HUN).

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (5) Matej Ferjan 14 (3,3,3,2,3)2 (15) Morten Risager 12+3 (2,3,2,3,2)3 (10) Filip Šitera 12+2 (3,3,1,3,2)4 (7) Laszlo Szatmari 11 (1,3,2,2,3)5 (3) Alexey Kharchenko 10 (2,2,3,0,3)6 (2) Robert Nagy 9 (3,2,1,3,0)7 (17) Zsolt Bencze 9 (1,2,2,2,2)8 (12) Anders Andersen 8+3 (3,1,0,3,1)9 (16) Marcin Piekarski 8+2 (1,2,3,1,1)10 (8) Josef Franc 8+1 (2,1,1,1,3)11 (13) Ruslan Gatiatov 8+E1 (2,1,3,2,0)12 (4) Matic Voldrih 4 (1,0,0,1,2)13 (6) Petri Koskela 3 (0,0,2,0,1)14 (18) Roland Kovacs 3 (0,1,0,1,1)15 (11) Jeroen van der Veen 1 (w,0,1,0,0) Lviv Qualifying Round 3 2008-05-18 (4:20 pm) Lviv Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 8 + 2R Changes: (10 SVK) Martin Vaculík and (16 GER) Daniel Rath were replaced by Track Reserves.

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (4) Tomasz Gapiński 14+3 (2,3,3,3,3)2 (5) Maksims Bogdanovs 14+2 (3,3,3,3,2)3 (13) Roman Ivanov 11 (3,0,2,3,3)4 (9) Matěj Kůs 10 (X/F,2,3,2,3)5 (1) Michael Hádek 10 (3,1,3,2,1)6 (11) Jevgēņijs Karavackis 10 (3,3,2,1,1)7 (7) Karol Baran 9 (2,2,0,3,2)8 (8) Daniil Ivanov 8+3 (1,1,1,2,3)9 (12) Oleksandr Boroday 8+2 (1,2,2,1,2)10 (14) Yaroslav Poliyhovich 7 (2,3,2,0,0)11 (10) Volodymyr Trofimov 6 (2,E,1,1,2)12 (3) Alessandro Milanese 5 (1,1,0,2,1)13 (2) Alexandru Toma 3 (0,2,0,0,1)14 (15) Ronny Weis 3 (1,0,1,1,0)15 (6) Fanica Popa 1 (0,1,T,0,0)16 (16) Andriy Sinkovskiy 1 (E,E,1,E,X) - (17) Ratislav Bandzi - -

Semi-finals Terenzano Semi-Final 1pzm.pl – 2008-05-17SportoweFakty.pl – 2008-05-30 2008-05-24 (4:20 pm) Terenzano Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 5 + 1R Change: Mathias Schultz (GER 8th in QR) would not be able to participate in the SF1. (14) Manuel Hauzinger was replaced by 1st track reserve Frank Facher; Facher was replaced by 2nd track reserve Ivan Vargek

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (9) Denis Gizatullin 14+3 (3,2,3,3,3)2 (1) Sebastian Ułamek 14+2 (3,3,3,3,2)3 (2) Adrian Miedziński 12 (2,2,3,3,2)4 (15) Mads Korneliussen 11 (2,2,2,2,3)5 (3) Aleš Dryml, Jr. 10 (1,3,1,3,2)6 (11) Mattia Carpanese 9+3 (1,1,2,2,3)7 (13) Kevin Wölbert 9+2 (3,1,3,1,1)8 (8) Adrian Rymel 8 (2,3,2,0,1)9 (10) Daniel Jeleniewski 7 (2,3,2,0,0)10 (5) Izak Šantej 6 (3,0,0,1,2)11 (6) Juha Hautamäki 5 (0,1,1,0,3)12 (16) Patrick Hougaard 5 (1,2,0,2,X)13 (7) Tomáš Suchánek 4 (1,0,0,2,1)14 (12) Marco Gregnanin 3 (0,0,1,2,0)15 (4) Maks Gregorič 3 (0,1,1,1,F)16 (18) Ivan Vargek 1 (0,0,0,0,1) Herxheim Semi-Final 2pzm.pl – 2008-05-30SportoweFakty.pl – 2008-06-10 2008-06-08 Herxheim Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 5 + 1R Change: No 5 – Zsolt Bencze (HUN) was replaced by Maciej Piekarski (POL)pzm.pl – 2008-06-03 No 7 – Laszlo Szatmari (HUN) was replaced by Josef Franc (CZE)pzm.pl – 2008-06-06 No 4 – Sebastian Aldén (SWE) was replaced by Ruslan Gatiatov (RUS)

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (11) Mikael Max 14 (3,3,3,3,2)2 (9) Martin Smolinski 13+3 (2,2,3,3,3)3 (14) Christian Hefenbrock 13+2 (3,3,2,2,3)4 (1) Sergey Darkin 12 (3,1,2,3,3)5 (13) Filip Šitera 12 (2,3,3,2,2)6 (7) Josef Franc 7+3 (0,2,2,1,2)7 (10) Alexey Kharchenko 7+2 (0,2,0,3,2)8 (8) Morten Risager 6 (3,3,0,0,-)9 (2) Matej Ferjan 6 (2,0,3,1,0)10 (3) Henk Bos 6 (1,0,1,1,3)11 (4) Ruslan Gatiatov 6 (0,2,1,2,1)12 (16) Robert Nagy 5 (1,1,0,2,1)13 (6) Borys Miturski 5 (1,1,1,1,1)14 (12) Anders Andersen 3 (1,0,2,0,0)15 (5) Marcin Piekarski 2 (2,0,F,0,0)16 (15) Przemysław Zarzycki 1 (0,1,F,0,0)17 (17) Matic Voldrih 1 (1) Debrecen Semi-Final 3- pzm.pl – 2008-05-30 2008-06-21 Debrecen Referee: Jury President: Change: No 2 Tomasz Gapiński (POL) was replaced by track reserve No 7 Henning Bager (DEN) was replaced by Peter Juul Larsen (DEN)

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (4) Daniil Ivanov 15 (3,3,3,3,3)2 (6) Matej Žagar 13 (3,3,3,1,3)3 (9) Sandor Tihanyi 11 (2,3,1,2,3)4 (1) Ulrich Ostergaard 10 (0,2,2,3,3)5 (15) Matěj Kůs 9 (3,2,2,0,2)6 (8) Maksims Bogdanovs 9 (2,2,2,2,1)7 (2) Oleksandr Boroday 8 (2,E,3,3,0)8 (14) Jurica Pavlic 8 (1,2,3,0,2)9 (13) Roman Ivanov 8 (2,1,2,1,2)10 (12) Andriy Karpov 7 (3,1,1,1,1)11 (5) Karol Baran 5 (1,E,0,3,1)12 (7) Peter Juul Larsen 5 (0,1,1,2,1)13 (11) Jozsef Tabaka 4 (1,3,X,0,0)14 (16) Jevgēņijs Karavackis 4 (0,0,1,1,2)15 (10) Michael Hádek 3 (0,1,0,2,0)16 (3) Ratislav Bandzi 1 (1,0,X,X,N) - (17) Yaroslav Poliyhovich - - - (18) Volodymyr Trofimov - -

Final Final 2008-08-24 (1:30 pm)On 23 August was rain. Lendava Referee: Frank Ziegler Jury President: (11) Christian Hefenbrock was replaced by J. Franc (15) Maksims Bogdanovs was replaced by M. Carpanese

Heat after heat: Zagar, Gizatullin, Korneliussen, Darkin Ułamek, Max, Iwanow, Tihanyi Franc, Ostergaard, Smolinski, Miedziński (E) Dryml, Kus, Sitera, Carpanese Dryml, Gizatullin, Ułamek, Ostergaard Smolinski, Darkin, Max, Sitera Zagar, Franc, Iwanow, Carpanese Kus, Korneliussen, Tihanyi, Miedziński (T) Max, Gizatullin, Franc, Kus Ułamek, Miedziński, Darkin, Carpanese Zagar, Ostergaard, Sitera, Tihanyi Dryml, Korneliussen, Iwanow, Smolinski Iwanow, Miedziński, Gizatullin, Sitera Franc, Darkin, Dryml, Tihanyi Kus, Zagar, Smolinski, Ułamek Korneliussen, Max, Ostergaard, Carpanese Gizatullin, Smolinski, Tihanyi, Carpanese Iwanow, Kus, Ostergaard, Darkin Zagar, Miedziński, Max, Dryml Ułamek, Korneliussen, Franc, Sitera Run-Offs Gizatullin (into 24), Dryml (E; into 23), Franc (E; into 23) Ułamek (into 24), Korneliussen (into 23), Kus (into 23) Kus (into 24), Korneliussen (into 24), Franc, Dryml (E) Ułamek, Korneliussen, Kus (N), Gizatullin (X) Pos. Rider Points Details1 (3) Matej Žagar 14 (3,3,3,2,3)2 (5) Sebastian Ułamek 10+3+3 (3,1,3,0,3)3 (4) Mads Korneliussen 10+2+2+2 (1,2,2,3,2)4 (16) Matěj Kůs 10+1+3+N (2,3,0,3,2)5 (1) Denis Gizatullin 10+3+X (2,2,2,1,3)6 (11) Josef Franc 10+E+1 (3,2,1,3,1)7 (13) Aleš Dryml, Jr. 10+E+E (3,3,3,1,0)8 (7) Daniil Ivanov 9 (1,1,1,3,3)9 (6) Mikael Max 9 (2,1,3,2,1)10 (10) Martin Smolinski 7 (1,3,0,1,2)11 (12) Adrian Miedziński 6 (E,T,2,2,2)12 (9) Ulrich Ostergaard 6 (2,0,2,1,1)13 (2) Sergey Darkin 5 (0,2,1,2,0)14 (14) Filip Šitera 2 (1,0,1,0,0)15 (8) Sandor Tihanyi 2 (0,1,0,0,1)16 (15) Mattia Carpanese 0 (0,0,0,0,0) - (18) Alexey Kharchenko - -

References pzm.pl – UEM Calendar 2008 pzm.pl – Allocation

See also