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European Speedway Individual Championship in France and Latvia – Preview

gollob-miedzinski-kildemand-smolinski0947 WEBWe are just about to witness a new exciting, spectacular and interesting season in European Speedway Individual competition, which will be concluded by four outstanding finals like in the season of 2014.

Year by year the competition is gaining prestige and the list of European speedway rides is growing more and more impressive and elitaire.
The Promoter of the series has invested a lot of efforts and time to increase the awareness of the competition itself and raise the speedway race organization to its highest level.
It is necessary to emphasize that the reputation of the competition is becoming favorable among the riders which is demonstrated by the rising interest for the competition and thus achieves higher racing quality.
The importance of the competition can be observed through the best European riders who choose to fight for the prestigious title of the Individual Speedway European Championship.
Qualifications for the four final rounds of the first 16 candidates started with the Semi Final race held on May 1st in Debrecen, Hungary.
The remaining two Semi Finals will take place on May 16, in Lamothe Landerron (France) and Daugavpils (Latvia).
The best 5 riders from tree Semi Finals and a nominated rider from Slovenia will compete in the European Championship Challenge in Lendava (Slovenia). The event will be organized on May 30, 2015.
The best 7 from the European Championship Challenge will directly qualify for the Series of 4 Finals.
In the finals they will be joined by the first 5 riders of the 2014 Individual Speedway European Championship who automatically qualified for the Final Series of 2015, plus 3 riders nominated by the Promoter – One Sport – and 1 rider nominated by the European Championship Bureau, plus 1 wild card rider according to the nomination provided by the Organizer.
In 2015 the Finals for the Individual Speedway European Championship are to be held: June 20 – Torun, Poland; July 11 – Landshut, Germany; August 15 – Kumla, Sweden; September 19 – Ostrow, Poland.
In 2014 all finals were broadcasted live by Eurosport and brought to the total TV audience of nearly 30 million people in all European countries. The co-operation will be continued also in 2015 season, which is a very good occasion to promote the discipline.

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The European Champion of 2014 Emil Saifutdinow (Russia)