2016 Speedway European Championship
# 2016 Speedway European Championship

The 2016 Speedway European Championship season was the fourth season of the Speedway European Championship (SEC) era, and the 16th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the fourth series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland.

The championship was won by Nicki Pedersen, who claimed the title for the first time. He won by two points from Václav Milík, who beat Krzysztof Kasprzak in a run-off for second place. Grigory Laguta and Leon Madsen finished fourth and fifth to ensure qualification for the 2017 competition. Two-time defending champion Emil Sayfutdinov finished seventh.

## Qualification

For the 2016 season, 15 permanent riders were joined at each SEC Final by one wild card and two track reserves.

Defending champion, Emil Sayfutdinov from Russia was automatically invited to participate in all final events. Nicki Pedersen, Antonio Lindbäck, Janusz Kołodziej and Martin Vaculík secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top five of the general classification in the 2015 season.

Seven riders qualified through the SEC Challenge and the line-up was then completed when Grigory Laguta, Václav Milík and Andžejs Ļebedevs received and accepted wild cards to compete.

### Qualified riders

| # | Riders | 2015 place | SEC Ch place | Appearance |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 89 | Emil Sayfutdinov | 1 | | 4th |
| 3 | Nicki Pedersen | 2 | | 4th |
| 85 | Antonio Lindbäck | 3 | | 2nd |
| 27 | Janusz Kołodziej | 4 | | 3rd |
| 54 | Martin Vaculík | 5 | | 4th |
| 507 | Krzysztof Kasprzak | - | 1 | 2nd |
| 66 | Leon Madsen | | 2 | 1st |
| 610 | Joonas Kylmäkorpi | | 3 | 1st |
| 59 | Przemysław Pawlicki | 7 | 4 | 2nd |
| 34 | Hans N. Andersen | 9 | 5 | 3rd |
| 36 | Peter Ljung | | 6 | 1st |
| 5 | Anders Thomsen | | 7 | 1st |
| 7 | Grigory Laguta | 6 | | 4th |
| 13 | Václav Milík | 12 | | 2nd |
| 29 | Andžejs Ļebedevs | | | 2nd |

## Calendar

### Qualification

The calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semifinal events and one SEC Challenge event.

| Round | Date | City and venue | Winner | Runner-up | 3rd placed | 4th placed | Results |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Semifinal 1 | 30 April | Debrecen, Hungary Speedway Stadium | Eduard Krčmář | Martin Smolinski | Peter Ljung | Leon Madsen | results |
| Semifinal 2 | 7 May | Mureck, Austria Speedway Stadium | Michael Jepsen Jensen | Hans N. Andersen | Krzysztof Kasprzak | Nicolas Covatti | results |
| Semifinal 3 | 15 May | Liberec, Czech Republic Speedway Stadium | Mateusz Szczepaniak | Artem Laguta | Joonas Kylmäkorpi | Tomasz Jędrzejak | results |
| Semifinal 4 | 15 May | Zarnovica, Slovakia Speedway Stadium | Fredrik Lindgren | Anders Thomsen | Przemysław Pawlicki | Thomas H. Jonasson | results |
| SEC Challenge | 27 May | Olching, Germany Stadion Olching | Krzysztof Kasprzak | Leon Madsen | Joonas Kylmäkorpi | Przemysław Pawlicki | results |

### Championship Series

A four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series, with events in Germany, Latvia, Russia and Poland.

| Round | Date | City and venue | Winner | Runner-up | 3rd placed | 4th placed | Results |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 16 July | Güstrow, Germany Speedway Stadion | Martin Vaculík | Krzysztof Kasprzak | Kai Huckenbeck | Janusz Kołodziej | results |
| 2 | 6 August | Daugavpils, Latvia Spīdveja centrs | Grigory Laguta | Joonas Kylmäkorpi | Emil Sayfutdinov | Maksims Bogdanovs | results |
| 3 | 20 August | Tolyatti, Russia IMega-Lada Stadium | Grigory Laguta | Antonio Lindbäck | Leon Madsen | Hans N. Andersen | results |
| 4 | 17 September | Rybnik, Poland Stadion Miejski | Nicki Pedersen | Václav Milík Jr. | Krzysztof Kasprzak | Emil Sayfutdinov | results |

## Classification

| Pos. | Rider | Points | | | | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | (3) Nicki Pedersen | 40 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 17 |
| 2 | (13) Václav Milík | 38 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 3 | (507) Krzysztof Kasprzak | 38 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 14 |
| 4 | (7) Grigory Laguta | 37 | – | 13 | 14 | 10 |
| 5 | (66) Leon Madsen | 37 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 11 |
| 6 | (85) Antonio Lindbäck | 37 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 8 |
| 7 | (89) Emil Sayfutdinov | 35 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | (59) Przemysław Pawlicki | 33 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 |
| 9 | (29) Andžejs Ļebedevs | 26 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| 10 | (610) Joonas Kylmäkorpi | 25 | – | 14 | 5 | 6 |
| 11 | (54) Martin Vaculík | 24 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 12 | (27) Janusz Kołodziej | 24 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| 13 | (34) Hans N. Andersen | 24 | 7 | 8 | 9 | – |
| 14 | (5) Anders Thomsen | 20 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 0 |
| 15 | (36) Peter Ljung | 16 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 16 | (16) Maksims Bogdanovs | 11 | – | 11 | – | – |
| 17 | (15) Kai Huckenbeck | 9 | 9 | – | – | – |
| 18 | (16) Kacper Woryna | 6 | – | – | – | 6 |
| 19 | (78) Nicolás Covatti | 5 | 1 | – | – | 4 |
| 20 | (16) Tobias Busch | 4 | 4 | – | – | – |
| 21 | (16) Andrey Kudryashov | 3 | – | – | 3 | – |
| 22 | (17) Robert Chmiel | 3 | – | – | – | 3 |
| 23 | (17) Tobias Kroner | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 24 | (18) Dominik Kubera | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| 25 | (17) Mikhail Litvinov | 0 | – | – | 0 | – |
| 26 | (18) Gleb Chugunov | 0 | – | – | 0 | – |
