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2004 Speedway Grand Prix

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2004 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates1 May – 2 October
Events9
Cities9
Countries7
Riders22 permanents
2 wild card(s)
Heats225 (in 9 events)
Winners
Champion AUS Jason Crump
Runner-up SWE Tony Rickardsson
3rd place USA Greg Hancock

The 2004 Speedway Grand Prix was the 59th edition of the official World Championship[1][2] and the tenth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

After finishing second in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Jason Crump broke through to become Australia's first Individual World Champion since Jack Young had won his second straight World title in 1952.

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

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The 2004 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

Event schedule and winners

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Calendar

Date Grand Prix Venue Winner Result
1 May Sweden Olympiastadion, Stockholm Leigh Adams 2004 Swedish GP[3]
15 May Czech Republic Markéta Stadium, Prague Jason Crump 2004 Czech GP[4]
29 May Europe Stadion Olimpijski, Wrocław Bjarne Pedersen 2004 European GP[5]
12 June Great Britain Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Greg Hancock 2004 British GP[6]
26 June Denmark Parken Stadium, Copenhagen Jason Crump 2004 Danish GP[7]
21 August Scandinavia Ullevi, Gothenburg Hans Andersen 2004 Scandinavian GP[8]
4 September Slovenia Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško Tony Rickardsson 2004 Slovenian GP[9]
18 September Poland Polonia Stadium, Bydgoszcz Tomasz Gollob 2004 Polish GP[10]
2 October Norway Vikingskipet, Hamar Tony Rickardsson 2004 Norwegian GP[11]

Final standings

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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 SWE
Sweden
CZE
Czech Republic
EUR
Poland
GBR
United Kingdom
DEN
Denmark
SCA
Sweden
SVN
Slovenia
POL
Poland
NOR
Norway
Gold Australia (2) Jason Crump 158 20 25 8 16 25 20 13 20 11
Silver Sweden (3) Tony Rickardsson 155 18 18 18 8 7 18 25 18 25
Bronze United States (5) Greg Hancock 137 13 11 8 25 18 16 20 6 20
4 Australia (4) Leigh Adams 131 25 13 11 20 11 11 11 13 16
5 Denmark (1) Nicki Pedersen 113 13 8 13 13 16 13 13 11 13
6 Poland (6) Tomasz Gollob 113 16 13 7 11 6 11 6 25 18
7 Sweden (10) Andreas Jonsson 97 5 7 7 13 20 8 16 8 13
8 Poland (22) Jarosław Hampel 81 3 20 20 6 6 6 13 7
9 Denmark (17) Hans Andersen 80 4 6 3 3 7 25 18 8 6
10 Denmark (15) Bjarne Pedersen 78 8 4 25 6 8 8 11 5 3
11 United Kingdom (16) Lee Richardson 76 11 11 5 18 5 7 7 7 5
12 United Kingdom (7) Scott Nicholls 66 5 4 11 11 13 5 11 6
13 Australia (9) Ryan Sullivan 65 7 16 11 5 4 4 4 6 8
14 Norway (8) Rune Holta 60 6 8 1 5 4 1 8 16 11
15 Poland (12) Piotr Protasiewicz 55 2 1 16 7 5 5 5 7 7
16 Sweden (14) Mikael Max 49 6 3 6 2 8 5 7 4 8
17 United Kingdom (11) Mark Loram 38 8 4 6 7 2 2 3 4 2
18 Denmark (21) Jesper B. Jensen 37 11 5 2 1 6 4 1 2 5
19 Czech Republic (18) Bohumil Brhel 32 7 7 5 4 2 3 2 1 1
20 Finland (19) Kai Laukkanen 25 1 1 3 1 3 6 3 3 4
21 Czech Republic (13) Lukáš Dryml 22 3 6 2 2 1 3 4 1
22 Czech Republic (20) Aleš Dryml Jr. 22 1 3 1 3 3 1 2 5 3
23 Poland Grzegorz Walasek 13 13
24 Denmark Niels-Kristian Iversen 13 13
25 Denmark Kenneth Bjerre 13 13
26 Slovenia Matej Žagar 8 8
27 United Kingdom David Norris 8 8
28 Sweden Peter Karlsson 7 7
29 Poland Rafał Dobrucki 5 5
30 Norway Arnt Förland 4 4
31 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 4 4
32 United Kingdom Chris Louis 4 4
33 Poland Wiesław Jaguś 4 4
34 Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak 3 3
35 Poland Tomasz Chrzanowski 2 2
36 Sweden Peter Ljung 2 2
37 Germany Robert Barth 2 2
38 Norway Rune Sola 2 2
39 Sweden Antonio Lindbäck 2 2
40 Czech Republic Antonín Šváb Jr. 2 2
41 Slovenia Izak Šantej 1 1
42 Finland Joonas Kylmäkorpi 1 1
43 United Kingdom Simon Stead 1 1
Pos. Rider Points SWE
Sweden
CZE
Czech Republic
EUR
Poland
GBR
United Kingdom
DEN
Denmark
SCA
Sweden
SVN
Slovenia
POL
Poland
NOR
Norway

References

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  1. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
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  7. ^ "Grand Prix result". Speedway World. Archived from the original on 28 June 2004. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Grand Prix result". Speedway World. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  9. ^ "Grand Prix result". Speedway World. Archived from the original on 22 September 2004. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Grand Prix result". Speedway World. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  11. ^ "Grand Prix result". Speedway World. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
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