The Speedway Grand Prix Challenge or Speedway Grand Prix Qualification is an annual speedway qualifying tournament to determine the qualifiers for the Speedway Grand Prix, which is the World Championship of speedway.[1]
From 1995 the Individual World Championship was replaced by the Grand Prix system. The 17 qualifiers for the 1995 Grand Prix were the top 10 from the 1994 World final, 5 seeds and 2 wildcards.[2]
From 1996, the leading riders from each Grand Prix series would automatically qualifying for the following year's event. The remaining places would be filled by the leading riders in the Challenge event and qualifiers from both the Continental Speedway Final and Intercontinental Final.[3] However, the latter two finals would come to end in 2000 and 2001 respectively.
| Year
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Format
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Winner
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Other qualifiers
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| 1996
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8 to qualify
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Australia Leigh Adams[4]
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 Marvyn Cox, Sweden Peter Karlsson,  Tommy Knudsen, Joe Screen, Gary Havelock, Australia Craig Boyce, Andy Smith
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| 1997
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4 to qualify
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Simon Wigg[5][6]
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Australia Leigh Adams, Sweden Mikael Karlsson, Andy Smith
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| 1998
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4 to qualify
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Poland Piotr Protasiewicz[7]
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Sweden Stefan Dannö, Australia Leigh Adams, Australia Craig Boyce
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| 1999
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8 to qualify
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Australia Leigh Adams[8]
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Brian Andersen, Sweden Henrik Gustafsson, Andy Smith, Sweden Stefan Dannö, Sweden Mikael Karlsson, Joe Screen, John Jørgensen
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| 2000
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10 to qualify
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Sweden Mikael Karlsson, Carl Stonehewer, Brian Karger, Sweden Henrik Gustafsson, Mark Loram, Andy Smith, Czech Republic Antonín Kasper Jr., Sweden Peter Karlsson, Brian Andersen
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| 2001
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10 to qualify
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Sweden Peter Karlsson[10]
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Carl Stonehewer, Nicki Pedersen, Norway Rune Holta, Sweden Mikael Karlsson, Poland Piotr Protasiewicz, Sweden Jimmy Nilsen, Joe Screen, Brian Andersen, Andy Smith
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| 2002
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6 to qualify
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Nicki Pedersen, Scott Nicholls, Czech Republic Lukáš Dryml, Carl Stonehewer, Andy Smith
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| 2003
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6 to qualify
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Lee Richardson[12]
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Czech Republic Bohumil Brhel, Poland Piotr Protasiewicz, Czech Republic Lukáš Dryml, Bjarne Pedersen, Poland Tomasz Bajerski
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| 2004
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6 to qualify
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Poland Piotr Protasiewicz[13]
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Czech Republic Bohumil Brhel, Bjarne Pedersen, Finland Kai Laukkanen, Czech Republic Aleš Dryml Jr., Jesper B Jensen
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| 2005
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2 to qualify
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Sweden Antonio Lindbäck[14]
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Poland Tomasz Chrzanowski
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| 2006
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No qualifying
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| 2007
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3 to qualify
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Poland Wiesław Jaguś[15]
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Norway Rune Holta, Hans Andersen
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| 2008
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3 to qualify
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Niels Kristian Iversen
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Czech Republic Lukáš Dryml, Bjarne Pedersen
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| 2009
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3 to qualify
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Kenneth Bjerre
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Poland Grzegorz Walasek, Poland Sebastian Ułamek
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| 2010
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3 to qualify
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Sweden Magnus Zetterström
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Australia Chris Holder, Poland Jarosław Hampel
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| 2011
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3 to qualify
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Russia Artem Laguta
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Sweden Antonio Lindbäck, Sweden Fredrik Lindgren
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| 2012
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3 to qualify
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Sweden Antonio Lindbäck
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Bjarne Pedersen, Poland Piotr Protasiewicz
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| 2013
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3 to qualify
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Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak
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Slovenia Matej Žagar, Niels-Kristian Iversen
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| 2014
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5 to qualify
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Niels-Kristian Iversen+
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Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak, Kenneth Bjerre, Germany Martin Smolinski, Chris Harris
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| 2015
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4 to qualify
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Slovenia Matej Žagar+
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Australia Jason Doyle, Chris Harris, Poland Maciej Janowski
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| 2016
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3 to qualify
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Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik
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Poland Piotr Pawlicki Jr., Chris Harris
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| 2017
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3 to qualify
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Poland Patryk Dudek
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Slovakia Martin Vaculík, Sweden Fredrik Lindgren
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| 2018
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3 to qualify
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Poland Przemysław Pawlicki
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Russia Artem Laguta, Craig Cook
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| 2019
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3 to qualify
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Poland Janusz Kołodziej
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Niels-Kristian Iversen, Sweden Antonio Lindbäck
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| 2020
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3 to qualify
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Slovenia Matej Žagar
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Niels-Kristian Iversen, Australia Max Fricke
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| 2021
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3 to qualify
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Slovenia Matej Žagar
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Sweden Oliver Berntzon, Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak
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| 2022
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3 to qualify
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Poland Paweł Przedpełski
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Australia Max Fricke, Poland Patryk Dudek
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| 2023
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3 to qualify
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Sweden Kim Nilsson
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Australia Jack Holder, Australia Max Fricke
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| 2024
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3 to qualify
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Australia Jason Doyle
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Slovakia Martin Vaculik+, Poland Szymon Woźniak, Czech Republic Jan Kvěch
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| 2025
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4 to qualify[16]
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Australia Brady Kurtz
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Anders Thomsen, Poland Dominik Kubera, Australia Max Fricke
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| 2026
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4 to qualify
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Poland Dominik Kubera
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Poland Kacper Woryna, Leon Madsen, Latvia Andžejs Ļebedevs
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+ Already qualified for the Grand Prix series
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