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2021 Speedway Grand Prix

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2021 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates16 July - 2 October
Events11
Cities7
Countries5
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats253 (in 11 events)
Winners
ChampionRussia Artem Laguta
Runner-upPoland Bartosz Zmarzlik
3rd placeRussia Emil Sayfutdinov

The 2021 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 27th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 76th FIM Speedway World Championship.[1][2] The calendar of events was disrupted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic[3] and the series was dominated by Polish venues once again, with six of the 11 races taking place in Poland. Great Britain and Germany did not hold an event, however Russia was added to the calendar for the first time. In 2020, six of the eight races had been held in Poland.[4]

Artem Laguta won his first world title. Laguta overtook defending champion Bartosz Zmarzlik in the points standings in round 10, which proved to be the pivotal moment of the championship.

Russian athletes competed as neutral competitors using the designation MFR (Motorcycle Federation of Russia), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes.[5]

Qualification

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For the 2021 season there were 15 permanent riders, who were joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

The top six riders from the 2020 championship qualified automatically.[6] These riders were joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge and the winner of the 2020 Speedway European Championship.[7]

The final four riders were nominated by the SGP Commission following the completion of the 2020 season.[8][9]

Qualified riders

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# Riders 2020 place GP Ch place Appearance Previous appearances in series
95 Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik 1 6th 2012–2015, 2016–2020
108 England Tai Woffinden 2 10th 2010, 2011, 2013–2020
66 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 3 12th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2020
71 Poland Maciej Janowski 4 7th 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015–2020
30 Denmark Leon Madsen 5 3rd 2013, 2019–2020
69 Australia Jason Doyle 6 7th 2015–2020
222 Russia Artem Laguta 7 5th 2011, 2018–2020
89 Russia Emil Sayfutdinov 8 10th 2009–2013, 2017–2020
54 Slovakia Martin Vaculík 9 6th 2012, 2013, 2017–2020
46 Australia Max Fricke 10 2nd 2016-2017, 2019, 2020
55 Slovenia Matej Žagar 11 1 11th 2003–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2011, 2013–2020
93 Sweden Oliver Berntzon 2 1st 2019
187 Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak 3 5th 2004–2007, 2008, 2012, 2013–2014
105 Denmark Anders Thomsen 1st 2016, 2020
505 England Robert Lambert 1st 2015, 2018–2019

Qualified substitutes

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The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

# Riders 2020 place GP Ch place
575 Ukraine Aleksandr Loktaev 4
27 Australia Jaimon Lidsey
415 Poland Dominik Kubera
999 Latvia Oļegs Mihailovs
99 England Dan Bewley
125 Germany Lukas Fienhage
201 Czech Republic Jan Kvěch =21

Calendar

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The 2021 season consisted of 11 events.

Round Date City and venue Winner Runner-up 3rd placed 4th placed Results
1 16 July Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium
Poland Maciej Janowski Russia Emil Sayfutdinov England Tai Woffinden Sweden Fredrik Lindgren results
2 18 July Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium
Russia Artem Laguta Poland Maciej Janowski Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Russia Emil Sayfutdinov results
3 30 July Poland Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Poland Maciej Janowski Russia Artem Laguta Russia Emil Sayfutdinov results
4 31 July Poland Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Russia Artem Laguta Denmark Leon Madsen England Tai Woffinden results
5 6 August Poland Lublin, Poland
Stadion MOSiR
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Poland Dominik Kubera Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Russia Artem Laguta results
6 7 August Poland Lublin, Poland
Stadion MOSiR
Russia Artem Laguta Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Poland Dominik Kubera Sweden Fredrik Lindgren results
7 14 August Sweden Målilla, Sweden
Skrotfrag Arena
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Russia Artem Laguta Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Australia Jason Doyle results
8 28 August Russia Tolyatti, Russia
Anatoly Stepanov Stadium
Russia Artem Laguta Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Denmark Anders Thomsen Russia Emil Sayfutdinov results
9 11 September Denmark Vojens, Denmark
Vojens Speedway Center
Russia Artem Laguta Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Russia Emil Sayfutdinov England Tai Woffinden results
10 1 October Poland Toruń, Poland
Rose Motoarena
Russia Artem Laguta Poland Maciej Janowski England Tai Woffinden Denmark Leon Madsen results
11 2 October Poland Toruń, Poland
Rose Motoarena
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Russia Emil Sayfutdinov Poland Maciej Janowski Russia Artem Laguta results

Final Classification

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Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
Pos. Rider Points CZE
Czech Republic
CZE
Czech Republic
POL
Poland
PL2
Poland
PL3
Poland
PL4
Poland
SWE
Sweden
RUS
Russia
DEN
Denmark
PL5
Poland
PL6
Poland
Gold Russia (222) Artem Laguta 192 12 20 16 18 14 20 18 20 20 20 14
Silver Poland (95) Bartosz Zmarzlik 189 11 12 20 20 20 18 20 18 18 12 20
Bronze Russia (89) Emil Sayfutdinov 149 18 14 14 12 9 12 12 14 16 10 18
4 Sweden (66) Fredrik Lindgren 129 14 16 12 8 16 14 16 12 11 3 7
5 Poland (71) Maciej Janowski 129 20 18 18 10 4 2 11 8 4 18 16
6 England (108) Tai Woffinden 122 16 8 6 14 11 10 8 9 14 16 10
7 Denmark (30) Leon Madsen 108 10 7 11 16 10 5 3 10 10 14 12
8 Australia (46) Max Fricke 94 9 6 7 11 8 11 7 11 7 9 8
9 Australia (69) Jason Doyle 87 5 11 5 7 12 7 14 7 6 4 9
10 England (505) Robert Lambert 82 7 2 9 9 6 8 6 1 12 11 11
11 Denmark (105) Anders Thomsen 73 3 9 8 4 2 9 9 16 3 5 5
12 Slovakia (54) Martin Vaculík 54 8 10 10 6 5 6 8 1
13 Slovenia (55) Matej Žagar 45 6 5 4 2 7 3 4 5 5 2 2
14 Poland (415) Dominik Kubera 44 18 16 10
15 Sweden (93) Oliver Berntzon 32 2 1 2 3 1 1 5 3 2 8 4
16 Poland (187) Krzysztof Kasprzak 28 1 4 1 1 3 4 2 2 1 6 3
17 Poland (16) Paweł Przedpełski 13 7 6
18 Denmark (16) Mikkel Michelsen 9 9
19 Poland (16) Gleb Chugunov 8 3 5
20 Czech Republic (201) Jan Kvěch 7 4 3
21 Ukraine (575) Aleksandr Loktaev 6 6
22 Russia (16) Vadim Tarasenko 4 4
23 Australia (27) Jaimon Lidsey 1 1
" Sweden (20) Pontus Aspgren 1 1
25 Czech Republic (17) Daniel Klíma 0 0 0
" Czech Republic (18) Petr Chlupáč 0 0 0
" Poland (17) Tobiasz Musielak 0 0 0
" Poland (18) Bartłomiej Kowalski 0 0 0
" Poland (17) Wiktor Lampart 0 0 0
" Poland (18) Mateusz Świdnicki 0 0 0
" Sweden (17) Kim Nilsson 0 0
" Sweden (18) Joel Andersson 0 0
" Russia (17) Renat Gafurov 0 0
" Russia (18) Evgeny Saidullin 0 0
" Denmark (17) Mads Hansen 0 0
" Denmark (18) Frederik Jakobsen 0 0
" Poland (17) Krzysztof Lewandowski 0 0 0
" Poland (18) Karol Żupiński 0 0 0
Pos. Rider Points CZE
Czech Republic
CZE
Czech Republic
POL
Poland
PL2
Poland
PL3
Poland
PL4
Poland
SWE
Sweden
RUS
Russia
DEN
Denmark
PL5
Poland
PL6
Poland

References

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  1. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  3. ^ "2021 PZM Warsaw FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland cancelled". FIM. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Calendar". Speedway GP. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  5. ^ Dunbar, Graham (17 December 2020). "Russia can't use its name and flag at the next 2 Olympics". Associated Press. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  6. ^ "2020 FIM Speedway World Championship results". SGP. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Robert Lambert becomes Britain's first Speedway European Championship winner". 29 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Speedway Grand Prix 2021 Wild cards confirmed".
  9. ^ "2021 wildcards announced". SGP. Archived from the original on 6 October 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  10. ^ "2021 FIM Speedway World Championship standings". SGP.
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