Summary
The Speedway of Nations is a motorcycle speedway event for national teams, held each year in a different country. The first edition of the competition in the current format took place in 2018.[1] It was the first time an official FIM international pairs competition was staged since the World Pairs Championship ceased in 1993. Australia are the current champions after winning in 2022. The Speedway of Nations was not held in 2023 due to the return of the Speedway World Cup, but will return to the speedway calendar in 2024 and 2025.[2]
Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Speedway of Nations | |
| Formerly | Speedway World Pairs Championship (held 1968-1993) |
|---|---|
| Sport | Motorcycle speedway |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Director | Phil Morris |
| Motto | No brakes, no gears, no fear |
| No. of teams | 15 national teams |
| Continent | World |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Australia |
| Most titles |  Russia (3 times) |
| TV partner(s) | Eurosport 2 (UK) |
| Official website | FIMspeedway.com/son |
Format edit
Each meeting is staged between seven national teams, with each national team represented by two riders. A third rider, who must be aged 21 years or under, acts as a reserve and can be used at any time. Each pairing rides against each other once. The combined total of each pair will be used to determine the outcome.[3]
Two semi-finals are held with the top three teams in each progressing to the final. The final is then staged between the hosts and the six qualified nations. It takes places over two rounds, with the second and third placed nations progressing to the semi-final, which is a single race. The winner of the semi-final faces the first placed nation in the Grand Final. The Grand Final winners are crowned Speedway of Nations champions.
Winners edit
By season edit
- 2020 Finished after 14 Heats due to bad weather condition. Russia awarded gold as they beat Poland in Heat 8.
Medal classification edit
| Pos | National Team |  |
 |
 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Russia
|
3 | - | - | 3 |
| 2. |  Great Britain
|
1 | 2 | - | 3 |
| 3. | Australia
|
1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| 4. |  Poland
|
- | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 5. |  Denmark
|
- | - | 2 | 2 |
| 6. |  Sweden
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
Rider classification edit
| Pos | Rider | Team | |
|
|
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Artem Laguta | Russia
|
3 | - | - | 3 |
| Emil Sayfutdinov | Russia
|
3 | - | - | 3 | |
| 3. | Gleb Chugunov | Russia
|
2 | - | - | 2 |
| 4. | Robert Lambert | Great Britain
|
1 | 2 | - | 3 |
| Tai Woffinden | Great Britain
|
1 | 2 | - | 3 | |
| 6. | Dan Bewley | Great Britain
|
1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| 7. | Jason Doyle | Australia
|
1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| Max Fricke | Australia
|
1 | - | 1 | 2 | |
| 9. | Tom Brennan | Great Britain
|
1 | - | - | 1 |
| Jack Holder | Australia
|
1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Evgeny Saidullin | Russia
|
1 | - | - | 1 | |
| 13. | Bartosz Zmarzlik | Poland
|
- | 3 | - | 3 |
| 14. | Patryk Dudek | Poland
|
- | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Maksym Drabik | Poland
|
- | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Maciej Janowski | Poland
|
- | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 18. | Craig Cook | Great Britain
|
- | 1 | - | 1 |
| Dominik Kubera | Poland
|
- | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Szymon Woźniak | Poland
|
- | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jakub Miśkowiak | Poland
|
- | 1 | - | 1 | |
| 23. | Leon Madsen | Denmark
|
- | - | 2 | 2 |
| 24. | Jaimon Lidsey | Australia
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
| Anders Thomsen | Denmark
|
- | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Marcus Birkemose | Denmark
|
- | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Mikkel Michelsen | Denmark
|
- | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Mads Hansen | Denmark
|
- | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Fredrik Lindgren | Sweden
|
- | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Oliver Berntzon | Sweden
|
- | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Victor Palovaara | Sweden
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
See also edit
References edit
External links edit
- Speedway World Cup - Official Site