2003 Speedway Grand Prix

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2003 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates17 May - 4 October
Events9
Cities9
Countries7
Riders22 permanents
2 wild card(s)
Heats225 + 3 canceled (in 9 events)
Winners
Champion DEN Nicki Pedersen
Runner-up AUS Jason Crump
3rd place SWE Tony Rickardsson

The 2003 Speedway Grand Prix was the 58th edition of the official World Championship[1][2][3] and the ninth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The world title was won by Nicki Pedersen of Denmark.[4]

Event format

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The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions - while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.

The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final - there was no consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th and 6th place getting 13, 7th and 8th 11, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.

Qualification for Grand Prix

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Main article: 2003 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2003 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

2003 event schedule and winners

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Calendar

Date Grand Prix Venue Winner Result
17 May EuropeEurope Stadion Śląski, Chorzów Tony Rickardsson Sweden 2003 European GP[5]
31 May SwedenSweden Stadion Brovalla, Avesta Ryan Sullivan Australia 2003 Swedish GP[6]
14 June United Kingdom Great Britain Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Nicki Pedersen Denmark 2003 British GP[7]
28 June DenmarkDenmark Parken Stadium, Copenhagen Jason Crump Australia 2003 Danish GP[8]
12 July SloveniaSlovenia Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško Leigh Adams Australia 2003 Slovenian GP[9]
30 August Kalmar UnionScandinavia Ullevi, Gothenburg Ryan Sullivan Australia 2003 Scandinavian GP[10]
6 September Error creating thumbnail: Czech Republic Markéta Stadium, Prague Jason Crump Australia 2003 Czech Republic GP[11]
20 September PolandPoland Polonia Stadium, Bydgoszcz Tomasz Gollob Poland 2003 Polish GP[12]
4 October NorwayNorway Vikingskipet, Hamar Greg Hancock United States 2003 Norwegian GP[13]

Final 2003 standings

Pos Rider Total EUR SWE GBR DEN SVN SCA CZE POL NOR
1 Error creating thumbnail: Nicki Pedersen 152 20 8 25 16 20 7 18 18 20
2 Australia Jason Crump 144 11 5 20 25 11 16 25 20 11
3 Error creating thumbnail: Tony Rickardsson 127 25 13 18 20 13 6 20 6 6
4 Australia Leigh Adams 126 11 18 13 11 25 18 11 11 8
5 United States Greg Hancock 121 8 16 16 18 11 13 6 8 25
6 Poland Tomasz Gollob 111 16 8 3 13 16 11 8 25 11
7 England Scott Nicholls 102 6 2 13 11 18 20 6 13 13
8 Norway/Poland Rune Holta 98 13 11 11 13 8 5 16 8 13
9 Australia Ryan Sullivan 94 6 25 7 8 8 25 5 3 7
10 Error creating thumbnail: Andreas Jonsson 76 - 2 11 7 7 13 13 7 16
11 Poland Piotr Protasiewicz 63 13 6 8 6 2 3 4 16 5
12 Error creating thumbnail: Lukáš Dryml 58 18 20 8 7 5 - - - -
13 Error creating thumbnail: Mikael Max 52 7 13 5 1 3 8 7 5 3
14 Error creating thumbnail: Bjarne Pedersen 51 2 7 4 5 - 3 8 4 18
15 Poland Tomasz Bajerski 51 4 11 7 6 13 5 2 1 2
16 England Lee Richardson 45 7 1 4 - - 8 7 11 7
17 Error creating thumbnail: Hans Andersen 41 3 4 - - - 11 11 6 6
18 England Mark Loram 32 5 - - - 7 4 4 7 5
19 Australia Todd Wiltshire 30 2 5 5 2 1 6 3 3 3
20 Australia Jason Lyons 29 1 6 2 8 3 2 1 2 4
21 Error creating thumbnail: Peter Karlsson 28 1 3 6 4 6 - 2 4 2
22 Error creating thumbnail: Bohumil Brhel 26 5 3 1 5 - 1 5 5 1
23 Error creating thumbnail: Ronni Pedersen 23 - 4 6 3 - 1 - 1 8
24 Poland Krzysztof Cegielski 15 8 7 - - - - - - -
25 Poland Jarosław Hampel 13 - - - - - - - 13 -
26 Error creating thumbnail: Tomáš Topinka 13 - - - - - - 13 - -
27 England David Howe 8 - - 2 - 6 - - - -
28 Error creating thumbnail: Peter Ljung 7 - - - - - 7 - - -
29 Russia Roman Povazhny 6 - - - 2 4 - - - -
30 Error creating thumbnail: Matej Žagar 5 - - - - 5 - - - -
31 Norway Lars Gunnestad 4 - - - - - - - - 4
32 Error creating thumbnail: David Ruud 4 - - - - - 4 - - -
33 Error creating thumbnail: Charlie Gjedde 4 - - - 4 - - - - -
34 Poland Sebastian Ułamek 4 4 - - - - - - - -
35 Error creating thumbnail: Izak Šantej 4 - - - - 4 - - - -
36 Error creating thumbnail: Aleš Dryml, Jr. 3 - - - - - - 3 - -
37 Poland Rafał Kurmański 3 3 - - - - - - - -
38 England Simon Stead 3 - - 3 - - - - - -
39 Poland Robert Dados 3 - - - 3 - - - - -
40 Finland Joonas Kylmäkorpi 3 - - - - - 2 - - 1
41 Poland Rafał Szombierski 2 - - - - - - - 2 -
42 Hungary Sándor Tihanyi 2 - - - - 2 - - - -
43 Error creating thumbnail: Jesper B. Jensen 1 - - - 1 - - - - -
44 Error creating thumbnail: Magnus Zetterström 1 - 1 - - - - - - -
45 Error creating thumbnail: Josef Franc 1 - - - - - - 1 - -
46 England Chris Harris 1 - - 1 - - - - - -
47 Error creating thumbnail: Denis Štojs 1 - - - - 1 - - - -
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