Sport motorcycle speedway No. of teams 16 riders | Founded 2001 Continent Europe | |
Most recent
champion(s) DEN Nicki Pedersen (2016) Most titles Individual - 2 titles:
RUS Emil Sayfutdinov
SVN Matej Žagar
Team - 4 titles:
Russia | ||
The Individual Speedway European Championship is an annual individual speedway event held each year 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, however the single event was replaced by the Speedway European Championship series in 2012. As of 2015, the competition was staged over four rounds in a Grand Prix format, with the winner being declared as the rider who accumulated the most points over the duration of 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).
The current champion is Nicki Pedersen from Denmark who won the title in 2016. Russia is also the most successful country having had four champions, Sayfutdinov (2014 and 2015), Grigory Laguta (2011) and Renat Gafurov (2009).