Another season of Speedway European Championships is behind us. It all started on June 20 at Motoarena in Toruń, though in fact it was over a dozen days earlier, when the SEC Challenge was held (moved from Lendava).
Up until the reform of Individual European Championship, which is until 2013, Poland held proudly the 1st place in overall medal classification in the championship's history. Since the line-up had been significantly strenghtened, the white and red have got a serious issue to reach any of the medals.
Emil Sayfutdinov is a real golden boy. In 2015 he reached three most precious medals. What's more, it was his second time in a row to taste the glory of being the European Champion. Can anyone challenge him now?
Past season of SEC series was full of interesting heats, a load of emotions and a great engagement by all the riders. However, it was three of them who bounced significantly from the others and at the end of the cycle, got their triumph with a huge advantage.
After winning his 2nd gold in Individual European Championship, Emil Sayfutdinov put Russia through to the leader's position concerning the amount of the golden medals in history of this series.
TOP 3 in this year's SEC 2015 got clear quite soon, but the fight for 2 next places gave a lot of emotions to the fans till the very end.
Right before the round in Ostrów Wielkopolski, there were several riders interested in these spots.
This Sunday, last matches in PGE Ekstraliga were held, so now we know where did the medals go. There were no surprises. Unia Tarnów defeated KS Toruń with no bigger problems 53:37 and FOGO Unia Leszno was a better team than Betard Sparta Wrocław in this 2-leg final.
Today, we've got 2nd part of curiosities considering past SEC series. Wanna know which event had the biggest attendance, who had the highest average or what spectacular happened in Kumla? There You go!
Third season of Speedway European Championships is behind us. This year's series was incredibly interesting, gave a lot of emotions and caused that each time fans were leaving the stadiums with smiles on their faces. Today, we invite you to the first part of curiosities!
Antonio Lindbaeck was very close to the silver medal of Individual European Championship, but in his last heat he finished third and had to accept Nicki's superiority.
I'm really happy because of my win in Ostrów and that last heat of mine, which was close to perfection. I managed to defend the advantage over Antonio Lindbaeck and stood on the podium again - said Nicki Pedersen.
Emil Sayfutdinov became the European Champion for the second time in a row. Russian assured his golden medal after only 4 starts in the Great Final of SEC in Ostrów Wielkopolski. However, his beginnings in that meeting were not that good, proper corrections in the setups let him reach the ultimate triumph in the meeting.
