# 2008 Individual Speedway European Championship

The 2008 Individual Speedway European Championship
Jurica Pavlič from Croatia is the defending European champion.

## Calendar

| Day | Venue | Winner | |
| Qualifying Rounds ||||
| 27 April | Neustadt/Donau | Adrian Miedziński | result |
| 17 May | Gyula | Matej Ferjan | result |
| 18 May | Lviv | Tomasz Gapiński | result |
| Semi-Finals ||||
| 24 May | Terenzano | Denis Gizatullin | result |
| 8 June | Herxheim | Mikael Max | result |
| 21 June | Debrecen | Daniil Ivanov | result |
| Final ||||
| 24 August | Lendava | Matej Žagar | result |

## Allocation

* Rules:
* Qualifying Rounds
* Riders placed 1st to 8th + 2R in Qualifying Round 1 will advance to Semi-Final 1.
* Riders placed 1st to 8th + 2R in Qualifying Round 2 will advance to Semi-Final 2.
* Riders placed 1st to 8th + 2R in Qualifying Round 3 will advance to Semi-Final 3.
* Semi-Finals
* Riders placed 1st to 5th + 1R in semi-final 1 and Semi-Final 2 will qualify for the Final.
* Riders placed 1st to 6th in semi-final 3 will qualify for the Final. But, if no Slovak rider qualifies for the Final, then only 5 riders will qualify from Semi-Final 3.
| FMNs | Total | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | F |
| FMNs | Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Czech Republic (ACCR) | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | | | |
| Slovenia (AMZS) | 4 | 2 | 1 | | | | 1 | |
| Germany (DMSB) | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | | 2 | | |
| Denmark (DMU) | 6 | 2 | 2 | | | | 2 | |
| France (FFM) | 2 | 2 | | | | | | |
| Belgium (FMB) | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Italy (FMI) | 3 | | | 1 | 2 | | | |
| Switzerland (FMS) | 1 | | 1 | | | | | |
| Ukraine (FMU) | 3 | | | 2 | | | 1 | |
| Romania (FRM) | 2 | | | 2 | | | | |
| Croatia (HMS) | 3 | 2 | | | | | 1 | |
| Netherlands (KNMV) | 3 | | 2 | | | 1 | | |
| Latvia (LaMSF) | 2 | | | 2 | | | | |
| Hungary (MAMS) | 4 | | 2 | | | | 2 | |
| Russia (MFR) | 6 | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | |
| Austria (OeAMTC) | 3 | 2 | | | 1 | | | |
| Poland (PZM) | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | | |
| Slovakia (SMF) | 2 | | | 1 | | | 1 | |
| Finland (SML) | 2 | | 1 | | 1 | | | |
| Sweden (SVEMO) | 3 | | 1 | | | 2 | | |
| TOTAL | 72 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |

## Qualifying rounds

| Neustadt/Donau Qualifying Round 1 2008-04-27 (2pm) Neustadt/Donau Referee: ? Attendance: ? Best Time: ? Pos.RiderPointsDetails 1 (5) Adrian Miedziński14(3,3,2,3,3) 2 (12) Adrian Rymel13+3(3,3,3,1,3) 3 (7) Kevin Wölbert13+2(2,2,3,3,3) 4 (3) Mads Korneliussen11(3,3,3,2,?) 5 (1) Daniel Jeleniewski10(2,?,3,2,3) 6 (10) Patrick Hougaard10(2,3,2,1,2) 7 (2) Izak Šantej8(1,2,1,2,2) 8 (14) Mathias Schultz7(3,?,2,0,2) 9 (16) Maks Gregorič6(1,2,2,?,1) 10 (17) Frank Facher5+3(2,3,?,?) 11 (6) Ivan Vargek5+2(0,1,0,2,2) 12 (15) Manuel Novotny4(?/-,1,0,3,0) 13 (8) Fritz Wallner4(1,1,?,1,1) 14 (13) Sirg Schützbach3(0,2,1,0,T/-) 15 (9) Sebastien Trésarrieu2(1,?,1,D,0) 16 (11) Nikola Martinec2(?,0,1,?/-,1) 17 (4) Theo di Palma1(0,0,?,1,-) - (18) Sebastian Mack-- (17 Facher) in heats: 4, 14, 19, 20 | Gyula Qualifying Round 2 2008-05-17 (5 pm) Christián László Municipal Sports Complex, Gyula Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 8 + 2R Changes: Riders 1 (GER), 9 (SWE) and 14 (NED) was replaced by two Track Reserves (HUN). Pos.RiderPointsDetails 1 (5) Matej Ferjan14(3,3,3,2,3) 2 (15) Morten Risager12+3(2,3,2,3,2) 3 (10) Filip Šitera12+2(3,3,1,3,2) 4 (7) Laszlo Szatmari11(1,3,2,2,3) 5 (3) Alexey Kharchenko10(2,2,3,0,3) 6 (2) Robert Nagy9(3,2,1,3,0) 7 (17) Zsolt Bencze9(1,2,2,2,2) 8 (12) Anders Andersen8+3(3,1,0,3,1) 9 (16) Marcin Piekarski8+2(1,2,3,1,1) 10 (8) Josef Franc8+1(2,1,1,1,3) 11 (13) Ruslan Gatiatov8+E1(2,1,3,2,0) 12 (4) Matic Voldrih4(1,0,0,1,2) 13 (6) Petri Koskela3(0,0,2,0,1) 14 (18) Roland Kovacs3(0,1,0,1,1) 15 (11) Jeroen van der Veen1(w,0,1,0,0) |
| Lviv Qualifying Round 3 2008-05-18 (4:20 pm) Lviv Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 8 + 2R Changes: (10 SVK) Martin Vaculík and (16 GER) Daniel Rath were replaced by Track Reserves. Pos.RiderPointsDetails 1 (4) Tomasz Gapiński14+3(2,3,3,3,3) 2 (5) Maksims Bogdanovs14+2(3,3,3,3,2) 3 (13) Roman Ivanov11(3,0,2,3,3) 4 (9) Matěj Kůs10(X/F,2,3,2,3) 5 (1) Michael Hádek10(3,1,3,2,1) 6 (11) Jevgēņijs Karavackis10(3,3,2,1,1) 7 (7) Karol Baran9(2,2,0,3,2) 8 (8) Daniil Ivanov8+3(1,1,1,2,3) 9 (12) Oleksandr Boroday8+2(1,2,2,1,2) 10 (14) Yaroslav Poliyhovich7(2,3,2,0,0) 11 (10) Volodymyr Trofimov6(2,E,1,1,2) 12 (3) Alessandro Milanese5(1,1,0,2,1) 13 (2) Alexandru Toma3(0,2,0,0,1) 14 (15) Ronny Weis3(1,0,1,1,0) 15 (6) Fanica Popa1(0,1,T,0,0) 16 (16) Andriy Sinkovskiy1(E,E,1,E,X) - (17) Ratislav Bandzi-- |

## Semi-finals

| Terenzano Semi-Final 1 2008-05-24 (4:20 pm) Terenzano Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 5 + 1R Change: Mathias Schultz (GER 8th in QR) would not be able to participate in the SF1. (14) Manuel Hauzinger was replaced by 1st track reserve Frank Facher; Facher was replaced by 2nd track reserve Ivan Vargek Pos.RiderPointsDetails 1 (9) Denis Gizatullin14+3(3,2,3,3,3) 2 (1) Sebastian Ułamek14+2(3,3,3,3,2) 3 (2) Adrian Miedziński12(2,2,3,3,2) 4 (15) Mads Korneliussen11(2,2,2,2,3) 5 (3) Aleš Dryml, Jr.10(1,3,1,3,2) 6 (11) Mattia Carpanese9+3(1,1,2,2,3) 7 (13) Kevin Wölbert9+2(3,1,3,1,1) 8 (8) Adrian Rymel8(2,3,2,0,1) 9 (10) Daniel Jeleniewski7(2,3,2,0,0) 10 (5) Izak Šantej6(3,0,0,1,2) 11 (6) Juha Hautamäki5(0,1,1,0,3) 12 (16) Patrick Hougaard5(1,2,0,2,X) 13 (7) Tomáš Suchánek4(1,0,0,2,1) 14 (12) Marco Gregnanin3(0,0,1,2,0) 15 (4) Maks Gregorič3(0,1,1,1,F) 16 (18) Ivan Vargek1(0,0,0,0,1) | Herxheim Semi-Final 2 2008-06-08 Herxheim Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 5 + 1R Change: No 5 - Zsolt Bencze (HUN) was replaced by Maciej Piekarski (POL) No 7 - Laszlo Szatmari (HUN) was replaced by Josef Franc (CZE) No 4 - Sebastian Aldén (SWE) was replaced by Ruslan Gatiatov (RUS) Pos.RiderPointsDetails 1 (11) Mikael Max14(3,3,3,3,2) 2 (9) Martin Smolinski13+3(2,2,3,3,3) 3 (14) Christian Hefenbrock13+2(3,3,2,2,3) 4 (1) Sergey Darkin12(3,1,2,3,3) 5 (13) Filip Šitera12(2,3,3,2,2) 6 (7) Josef Franc7+3(0,2,2,1,2) 7 (10) Alexey Kharchenko7+2(0,2,0,3,2) 8 (8) Morten Risager6(3,3,0,0,-) 9 (2) Matej Ferjan6(2,0,3,1,0) 10 (3) Henk Bos6(1,0,1,1,3) 11 (4) Ruslan Gatiatov6(0,2,1,2,1) 12 (16) Robert Nagy5(1,1,0,2,1) 13 (6) Borys Miturski5(1,1,1,1,1) 14 (12) Anders Andersen3(1,0,2,0,0) 15 (5) Marcin Piekarski2(2,0,F,0,0) 16 (15) Przemysław Zarzycki1(0,1,F,0,0) 17 (17) Matic Voldrih1(1) |
| Debrecen Semi-Final 3 2008-06-21 Debrecen Referee: Jury President: Change: No 2 Tomasz Gapiński (POL) was replaced by track reserve No 7 Henning Bager (DEN) was replaced by Peter Juul Larsen (DEN) Pos.RiderPointsDetails 1 (4) Daniil Ivanov15(3,3,3,3,3) 2 (6) Matej Žagar13(3,3,3,1,3) 3 (9) Sandor Tihanyi11(2,3,1,2,3) 4 (1) Ulrich Ostergaard10(0,2,2,3,3) 5 (15) Matěj Kůs9(3,2,2,0,2) 6 (8) Maksims Bogdanovs9(2,2,2,2,1) 7 (2) Oleksandr Boroday8(2,E,3,3,0) 8 (14) Jurica Pavlic8(1,2,3,0,2) 9 (13) Roman Ivanov8(2,1,2,1,2) 10 (12) Andriy Karpov7(3,1,1,1,1) 11 (5) Karol Baran5(1,E,0,3,1) 12 (7) Peter Juul Larsen5(0,1,1,2,1) 13 (11) Jozsef Tabaka4(1,3,X,0,0) 14 (16) Jevgēņijs Karavackis4(0,0,1,1,2) 15 (10) Michael Hádek3(0,1,0,2,0) 16 (3) Ratislav Bandzi1(1,0,X,X,N) - (17) Yaroslav Poliyhovich-- - (18) Volodymyr Trofimov-- |

## Final

* Final
* 2008-08-24 (1:30 pm)
* Lendava
* Referee: Frank Ziegler
* Jury President:
* (11) Christian Hefenbrock was replaced by J. Franc
* (15) Maksims Bogdanovs was replaced by M. Carpanese
| Placing | Rider | Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pts | Pos | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| | (3) Matej Žagar | 14 | 3 | | | | | | 3 | | | | 3 | | | | 2 | | | | 3 | | 14 | 1 | | | | |
| | (5) Sebastian Ułamek | 10 | | 3 | | | 1 | | | | | 3 | | | | | 0 | | | | | 3 | 10 | 3 | | 3 | | 3 |
| | (4) Mads Korneliussen | 10 | 1 | | | | | | | 2 | | | | 2 | | | | 3 | | | | 2 | 10 | 7 | | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | (16) Matěj Kůs | 10 | | | | 2 | | | | 3 | 0 | | | | | | 3 | | | 2 | | | 10 | 4 | | 1 | 3 | N |
| 5 | (1) Denis Gizatullin | 10 | 2 | | | | 2 | | | | 2 | | | | 1 | | | | 3 | | | | 10 | 6 | 3 | | | X |
| 6 | (11) Josef Franc | 10 | | | 3 | | | | 2 | | 1 | | | | | 3 | | | | | | 1 | 10 | 5 | E | | 1 | |
| 7 | (13) Aleš Dryml, Jr. | 10 | | | | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | 3 | | 1 | | | | | 0 | | 10 | 2 | E | | E | |
| 8 | (7) Daniil Ivanov | 9 | | 1 | | | | | 1 | | | | | 1 | 3 | | | | | 3 | | | 9 | 8 | | | | |
| 9 | (6) Mikael Max | 9 | | 2 | | | | 1 | | | 3 | | | | | | | 2 | | | 1 | | 9 | 9 | | | | |
| 10 | (10) Martin Smolinski | 7 | | | 1 | | | 3 | | | | | | 0 | | | 1 | | 2 | | | | 7 | 10 | | | | |
| 11 | (12) Adrian Miedziński | 6 | | | E | | | | | T | | 2 | | | 2 | | | | | | 2 | | 6 | 11 | | | | |
| 12 | (9) Ulrich Ostergaard | 6 | | | 2 | | 0 | | | | | | 2 | | | | | 1 | | 1 | | | 6 | 12 | | | | |
| 13 | (2) Sergey Darkin | 5 | 0 | | | | | 2 | | | | 1 | | | | 2 | | | | 0 | | | 5 | 13 | | | | |
| 14 | (14) Filip Šitera | 2 | | | | 1 | | 0 | | | | | 1 | | 0 | | | | | | | 0 | 2 | 14 | | | | |
| 15 | (8) Sandor Tihanyi | 2 | | 0 | | | | | | 1 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 1 | | | | 2 | 15 | | | | |
| 16 | (15) Mattia Carpanese | 0 | | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | | | | 0 | 0 | | | | 0 | 16 | | | | |
| | (17) Alexey Kharchenko | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 | | | | | |
| Placing | Rider | Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pts | Pos | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify
| gate A - inside | gate B | gate C | gate D - outside |
| Heat after heat: Zagar, Gizatullin, Korneliussen, Darkin Ułamek, Max, Iwanow, Tihanyi Franc, Ostergaard, Smolinski, Miedziński (E) Dryml, Kus, Sitera, Carpanese Dryml, Gizatullin, Ułamek, Ostergaard Smolinski, Darkin, Max, Sitera Zagar, Franc, Iwanow, Carpanese Kus, Korneliussen, Tihanyi, Miedziński (T) Max, Gizatullin, Franc, Kus Ułamek, Miedziński, Darkin, Carpanese Zagar, Ostergaard, Sitera, Tihanyi Dryml, Korneliussen, Iwanow, Smolinski Iwanow, Miedziński, Gizatullin, Sitera Franc, Darkin, Dryml, Tihanyi Kus, Zagar, Smolinski, Ułamek Korneliussen, Max, Ostergaard, Carpanese Gizatullin, Smolinski, Tihanyi, Carpanese Iwanow, Kus, Ostergaard, Darkin Zagar, Miedziński, Max, Dryml Ułamek, Korneliussen, Franc, Sitera Run-Offs Gizatullin (into 24), Dryml (E; into 23), Franc (E; into 23) Ułamek (into 24), Korneliussen (into 23), Kus (into 23) Kus (into 24), Korneliussen (into 24), Franc, Dryml (E) Ułamek, Korneliussen, Kus (N), Gizatullin (X) | Pos.RiderPointsDetails 1 (3) Matej Žagar14(3,3,3,2,3) 2 (5) Sebastian Ułamek10+3+3(3,1,3,0,3) 3 (4) Mads Korneliussen10+2+2+2(1,2,2,3,2) 4 (16) Matěj Kůs10+1+3+N(2,3,0,3,2) 5 (1) Denis Gizatullin10+3+X(2,2,2,1,3) 6 (11) Josef Franc10+E+1(3,2,1,3,1) 7 (13) Aleš Dryml, Jr.10+E+E(3,3,3,1,0) 8 (7) Daniil Ivanov9(1,1,1,3,3) 9 (6) Mikael Max9(2,1,3,2,1) 10 (10) Martin Smolinski7(1,3,0,1,2) 11 (12) Adrian Miedziński6(E,T,2,2,2) 12 (9) Ulrich Ostergaard6(2,0,2,1,1) 13 (2) Sergey Darkin5(0,2,1,2,0) 14 (14) Filip Šitera2(1,0,1,0,0) 15 (8) Sandor Tihanyi2(0,1,0,0,1) 16 (15) Mattia Carpanese0(0,0,0,0,0) - (18) Alexey Kharchenko-- |