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2023 Speedway Grand Prix

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2023 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates29 April – 30 September
Events10
Cities10
Countries8
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats230 (in 10 events)
Winners
Champion POL Bartosz Zmarzlik
Runner-up SWE Fredrik Lindgren
3rd place SVK Martin Vaculík

The 2023 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 29th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 78th FIM Speedway World Championship.[1] It was the second series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.

Bartosz Zmarzlik was the defending champion, having won the 2022 title.

Zmarzlik successfully retained the title, winning a fourth championship, despite being disqualified from round nine in Denmark. He beat Fredrik Lindgren by eight points, with Martin Vaculík securing the bronze medal. During the championships, Zmarzlik secured four Grand Prix wins after the Latvian Grand Prix, which equalled the 22 career Grand Prix wins of fellow Pole Tomasz Gollob.[2] He then went on to win a fifth Grand Prix, which equalled the all-time record of 23 held by Jason Crump.[3]

Qualification

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For the 2023 season there were 15 permanent riders, who were joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

The top six riders from the 2022 championship qualified automatically.[4] These riders were joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge.

The final six riders were nominated by the SGP Commission.[5]

Qualified riders

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# Riders 2022 place GP Ch place Appearance Previous appearances in series
95 Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik 1 8th 2012–2015, 2016–2022
30 Denmark Leon Madsen 2 5th 2010, 2013, 2019–2022
71 Poland Maciej Janowski 3 9th 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015–2022
66 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 4 14th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2022
505 United Kingdom Robert Lambert 5 5 3rd 2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2022
99 United Kingdom Dan Bewley 6 2 2nd 2018, 2022
692 Poland Patryk Dudek 7 6th 2016, 2017–2020, 2022
108 United Kingdom Tai Woffinden 8 12th 2010, 2011, 2013–2022
54 Slovakia Martin Vaculík 9 8th 2012, 2013, 2017–2022
69 Australia Jason Doyle 10 9th 2015–2022
155 Denmark Mikkel Michelsen 11 3rd 2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
105 Denmark Anders Thomsen 14 10 3rd 2016, 2020, 2021–2022
233 Sweden Kim Nilsson 1 1st 2012–2014, 2016–2017
25 Australia Jack Holder 12 3 2nd 2016, 2020, 2022
46 Australia Max Fricke 13 4 4th 2016–2017, 2019, 2020–2022

Qualified substitutes

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The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

# Riders 2022 place GP Ch place
29 Latvia Andžejs Ļebedevs 16 9
201 Czech Republic Jan Kvěch 27
744 Germany Kai Huckenbeck 20
22 United States Luke Becker
TBC France Dimitri Bergé
TBC Finland Timi Salonen
TBC Ukraine Marko Levishyn

Calendar

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The 2023 season consisted of 10 events.

Round Date City and venue Winner Runner-up 3rd placed 4th placed Results
1 29 April Croatia Goričan, Croatia
Stadium Milenium
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik United Kingdom Robert Lambert Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Australia Jason Doyle results
2 13 May Poland Warsaw, Poland
Stadion Narodowy
Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Australia Jack Holder Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Australia Jason Doyle results
3 3 June Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium
Slovakia Martin Vaculík Denmark Leon Madsen Australia Jack Holder Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik results
4 10 June Germany Teterow, Germany
Bergring Arena
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Australia Jason Doyle Australia Jack Holder Sweden Kim Nilsson results
5 24 June Poland Gorzów, Poland
Edward Jancarz Stadium
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Denmark Leon Madsen Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Australia Jason Doyle results
6 15 July Sweden Målilla, Sweden
Skrotfrag Arena
United Kingdom Dan Bewley Slovakia Martin Vaculík Poland Patryk Dudek Sweden Fredrik Lindgren results
7 12 August Latvia Riga, Latvia
Biķernieki Riga Stadium
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Slovakia Martin Vaculík United Kingdom Tai Woffinden results
8 2 September United Kingdom Cardiff, Great Britain
Principality Stadium
Slovakia Martin Vaculík Australia Jack Holder Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Sweden Fredrik Lindgren results
9 16 September Denmark Vojens, Denmark
Vojens Speedway Center
Denmark Leon Madsen Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Australia Jack Holder United Kingdom Robert Lambert results
10 30 September Poland Toruń, Poland
Rose Motoarena
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Denmark Leon Madsen Poland Patryk Dudek results

Final classification

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Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
Pos. Rider Points CRO
Croatia
POL
Poland
CZE
Czech Republic
GER
Germany
PL2
Poland
SWE
Sweden
LAT
Latvia
GBR
United Kingdom
DEN
Denmark
PL3
Poland
Gold Poland (95) Bartosz Zmarzlik 158 20 16 14 20 20 12 20 16 20
Silver Sweden (66) Fredrik Lindgren 150 16 20 11 5 16 14 18 14 18 18
Bronze Slovakia (54) Martin Vaculík 125 9 12 20 7 3 18 16 20 8 12
4 Australia (25) Jack Holder 123 8 18 16 16 11 10 18 16 10
5 Denmark (30) Leon Madsen 111 4 8 18 12 18 3 10 2 20 16
6 United Kingdom (505) Robert Lambert 108 18 5 9 10 12 9 8 12 14 11
7 United Kingdom (99) Dan Bewley 104 10 10 12 9 8 20 9 8 12 6
8 Australia (69) Jason Doyle 96 14 14 8 18 14 1 12 6 1 8
9 Australia (46) Max Fricke 83 7 11 6 3 7 11 11 9 9 9
10 Poland (692) Patryk Dudek 76 6 1 10 6 5 16 4 10 4 14
11 United Kingdom (108) Tai Woffinden 64 12 9 3 8 9 5 14 4
12 Denmark (155) Mikkel Michelsen 56 11 6 5 2 4 4 5 5 11 3
13 Sweden (233) Kim Nilsson 44 2 2 2 14 2 3 11 7 1
14 Poland (71) Maciej Janowski 43 3 7 7 4 10 2 7 3
15 Denmark (105) Anders Thomsen 36 5 3 4 11 6 7 0
16 Latvia (29) Andžejs Ļebedevs 30 8 6 7 2 7
17 Germany (744) Kai Huckenbeck 11 1 5 5
18 Denmark (17) Mads Hansen 10 10
19 Sweden (16) Jacob Thorssell 6 6
20 Denmark (16) Rasmus Jensen 6 6
21 Poland (17) Bartłomiej Kowalski 4 4
22 Poland (16) Dominik Kubera 4 4
23 Denmark (18) Benjamin Basso 3 3
24 Latvia (16) Francis Gusts 2 2
25 United States (22) Luke Becker 2 2
26 Slovenia (16) Matej Žagar 1 1
27 Czech Republic (16) Václav Milík 1 1
28 Poland (16) Szymon Woźniak 1 1
29 Latvia (18) Ernest Matjuszonok 1 1
30 United Kingdom (16) Steve Worrall 1 1
31 Slovenia (17) Nick Škorja 0 0
32 Latvia (17) Ričards Ansviesulis 0 0
33 United Kingdom (17) Anders Rowe 0 0
34 United Kingdom (18) Jason Edwards 0 0
35 Czech Republic (201) Jan Kvěch 0 0
Pos. Rider Points CRO
Croatia
POL
Poland
CZE
Czech Republic
GER
Germany
PL2
Poland
SWE
Sweden
LAT
Latvia
GBR
United Kingdom
DEN
Denmark
PL3
Poland

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. ^ "POLISH HERO ZMARZLIK EQUALS IDOL GOLLOB'S TALLY OF 22 SPEEDWAY GP WINS IN RIGA". FIM. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  3. ^ "BARTOSZ ZMARZLIK WINS 2023 SGP CHAMPIONSHIP WITH VICTORY IN TORUN, FREDRIK LINDGREN FINISHES SECOND". Eurosport. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  4. ^ "2022 FIM Speedway World Championship results". SGP.
  5. ^ "2023 FIM Speedway World Championship line-up complete". SGP.
  6. ^ "2023 FIM Speedway World Championship standings". SGP.
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