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Individual Speedway European Championship
Current season, competition or edition:; 2024 Speedway European Championship
Sport	motorcycle speedway
Founded	2001 ; (previously ; European Final 1955-75)
No. of teams	16 riders
Most recent; champion(s)	Andžejs Ļebedevs (2024)

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.

History

From 1955 to 1975, the European Final was staged as the final qualifying round for the World Speedway Championship, although this did not include British riders who had a separate qualifying round.^[1]^[2]

The European Championships were inaugurated in 2001, organised by European Motorcycle Union (UEM). In 2012 this was replaced by a series of four finals. Regardless of that, ISEC was struggling with prestige and promotion and the best European riders were mostly avoiding this contest.^[3]

On 20 December 2012, at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland it was announced that the competition would be replaced by a new series similar in format to the Speedway Grand Prix. The Speedway European Championship series is promoted by One Sporta Ltd. from Poland for next three seasons (2013-2015).^[4]

As of 2022, 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).

Denmark is the most successful nation having had seven champions, Jesper B. Jensen (2005), Nicki Pedersen (2016), Leon Madsen (2018 and 2022) and Mikkel Michelsen (2019, 2021 and 2023).

Winners

European Final (1955-1975)

Year	Venue	Winners	2nd place	3rd place
1955	Oslo	Henry Andersen	Olle Nygren	Kjell Carlsson
1956	Oslo	Ove Fundin	Per Olof Söderman	Ole Andersson
1957	Växjö	Rune Sörmander	Per Olof Söderman	Josef Hofmeister
1958	Warsaw	Ove Fundin	Josef Hofmeister	Rune Sörmander
1959	Göteborg	Ove Fundin	Josef Hofmeister	Mieczysław Połukard
1960	Wrocław	Marian Kaiser	Ove Fundin	Stefan Kwoczała
1961	Wieden	Ove Fundin	Björn Knutson	Igor Plekhanov
1962	Oslo	Björn Knutson	Ove Fundin	Göte Nordin
1963	Göteborg	Björn Knutson	Ove Fundin	Per Olof Söderman
1964	Wrocław	Zbigniew Podlecki	Björn Knutson	Boris Samorodov
1965	Slaný	Ove Fundin	Björn Knutson	Antoni Woryna
1966	Wembley	Ivan Mauger	Barry Briggs	Antoni Woryna
1967	Wrocław	Andrzej Wyglenda	Andrzej Pogorzelski	Antoni Woryna
1968	Wrocław	Paweł Waloszek	Antoni Woryna	Jerzy Trzeszkowski
1969	Olching	Valeri Klementiev	Edward Jancarz	Torbjörn Harrysson
1970	Leningrad	Ivan Mauger	Vladimir Gordeev	Gennady Kurilenko
1971	Wembley	Ivan Mauger	Ray Wilson	Ole Olsen
1972	Wrocław	Paweł Waloszek	Ole Olsen	Anders Michanek
1973	Abensberg	Anders Michanek	Ivan Mauger	Vladimir Paznikov
1974	Wembley	Peter Collins	Ole Olsen	Ivan Mauger
1975	Bydgoszcz	Ivan Mauger	Ole Olsen	Phil Crump

Individual European Championship (2001-2011)

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)

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	Five events	Robert Lambert (67 pts)	Leon Madsen (64 pts)	Grigory Laguta (52 pts)
2021	Four events	Mikkel Michelsen (53 pts)	Leon Madsen (51 pts)	Patryk Dudek (46 pts)
2022	Four events	Leon Madsen (53 pts)	Janusz Kołodziej (52 pts)	Mikkel Michelsen (45 pts)
2023	Four events	Mikkel Michelsen (52 pts)	Leon Madsen (44 pts)	Janusz Kołodziej (42 pts)
2024	Four events	Andžejs Ļebedevs (50 pts)	Leon Madsen (47 pts)	Kacper Woryna (44 pts)

Medals classification

Pos	National Team	Total
1.	Denmark	20	7	7	6
2.	Russia	8	4	2	2
3.	Poland	19	3	10	6
4.	Czech Republic	7	2	3	2
5.	Slovenia	3	2	1
6.	Latvia	2	2
7.	Sweden	3	1		2
8.	Great Britain	2	1		1
9.	Croatia	1	1
	Slovakia	1	1
11.	Ukraine	3		1	2
12.	Finland	1			1
	Germany	1			1

References

^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. p. 23. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
^ "About SEC". www.speedwayeuro.com. Archived from the original on 2012-12-25. Retrieved 23 Feb 2013.
^ "Żużlowe mistrzostwa Europy wkraczają w nową erę" (in Polish). sportowefakty.pl. 20 Dec 2012. Retrieved 23 Feb 2013.