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Sweden struggle early on ... then win the Final without the World Champion!
The Latvia team, weakened by the absence of Puodzhuks and Paura due to a crash at practice a week earlier, just failed to take home track advantage in the qualifying round, when Slovenia's Zagar won a run-off for the second qualifying place in the finals, behind winners Germany, who lost Stange with an injury in a ht 18 fall.

The finals were staged in Denmark for the first time, but got off to a predictable start as the home team cruised through to the Final in the weakest of the three "Events". Despite a terrific battle between Australia and GB (as usual) in Event 2, the racing at Outrup was mostly processional. GB, without the injured Loram (though he had threatened to miss the SWC due to 5-rider races in later rounds), took a one point lead in ht 22, but were then beaten by Aussie riders in all of the remaining 3 races. The USA had withdrawn from this round due to injury and other problems.

Poland scored a surprising win in Event 3 over Sweden, in another two-horse race. The last heat was run 4 times - initially Hell was

excluded for colliding into Jonsson, while in the rerun the Swede was
clipped by Gafurov on his way into the fence. AJ was feeling somewhat second-hand by this time. It was Protasiewicz's turn to be excluded when his bike reared up and he fell, leaving Jonsson to ride 4 laps unopposed in the final re-run.

In the Race-Off, no one had predicted that GB would produce a magnificent performance to lead all the way. Sweden, without World Champion Rickardsson (suffering the effects of a week-old concussion), just scraped into the Final when they won a last-heat decider for second place with the Czechs.

Sweden had not enjoyed a good week, but that all changed in the Final when, led by the stunning return to form of Mikael Max, and despite the continued absence of Rickardsson, they shocked 6-4 on favourites Australia, who had led for most of the meeting. On a terrible Vojens track, the Australians wilted at the finish, scoring just 3 points out of a possible 16 in the last four races. GB had a wonderful week, but simply ran out of steam.

QUALIFYING ROUND (1st to Event 1; 2nd to Event 2) 5-rider races : scoring 4-3-2-1-0
Sun 11.05 : Daugavpils, Latvia
Germany 65 Slovenia 62+4 Latvia 62+3 Italy 39 Austria 19
Team Manager: Wolfgang Ziller Team Manager: Franc Kalin Team Manager: Sergei Danu Team Manager: Vito Artosin Team Manager: Niels Munk Nielsen (Den)

Daugavpils 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 RUN
OFF		 Total
1 Mirko Wolter 3 4 4 4 4 19
2 Thomas Stange 4 1 3 f,ex - 8
3 Ronny Weis 2 3 1 3 3 12
4 Matthias Schultz 4 2 1 3 2 12
5 Christian Hefenbrock 3 2 4 3 2 14
GERMANY 3 7 9 13 16 18 20 24 25 28 29 30 34 38 41 44 48 48 51 54 54 57 59 61 65 65
1 Matej Zagar f,ex 3 4 4 4 4 15 +4
2 Izak Santej 3 4 4 2 4 17
3 Jernej Kolenko 3 3 ret 3 3 12
4 Ales Dolinar 2 4 1 2 3 12
5 Denis Stojs 4 ret f,ex 1 1 6
SLOVENIA 0 3 6 8 12 15 19 22 26 26 30 34 34 35 35 39 41 44 46 47 51 55 58 61 62 +4 62 +4
1 Andrey Korolev 2 4 3 4 4 3 17 +3
2 Vladimir Voronkov 2 1 3 4 3 13
3 Nikolai Kokins 4 3 2 2 2 13
4 Denis Popovich 3 2 2 2 2 11
5 Aleksandr Bizna 1 2 2 3 0 8
LATVIA 2 4 8 11 12 13 16 18 20 24 26 29 32 34 36 38 41 45 49 51 53 55 55 59 62 +3 62 +3
1 Armando Castagna 4 f,ex 3 4 ret 4 15
2 Alessandro Dalle Valle 0 f,ex - 0 - 0
3 Christian Miotello 1 0 2 - 2 5
4 Simone Terenzani f,ex 1 1 1 3 1 7
5 Emiliano Sanchez 2 4 3 2 1 12
ITALY 4 4 5 5 7 11 11 11 11 12 15 17 18 21 25 25 26 28 28 28 31 32 36 37 39 39
1 Fritz Wallner 1 3 2 4 f,ex 10
2 Markus Pichler 1 2 f,ex ret 1 1 7
3 Ivan Nagar 0 ret 1 ret - 1
4 Rene Pfeiffer 1 1 ret ret - 2
5 Oliver Ozelt 0 1 0 - - 1
AUSTRIA 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 8 10 10 10 12 12 13 13 13 13 14 18 18 18 19 19 19 19

EVENTS 1, 2 & 3 (Winners to Final. 2nd, and two highest scoring 3rd place teams, to Race-Off)

EVENT 1 Sun 03.08 : Holsted, Denmark Att: 3,350 Referee: Mats Malmberg (Swe)
Denmark 62 Czech Republic 51 Finland 32 Germany 10
Team Manager: Jacob Olsen Team Manager: Josef Lastovka Team Manager: Vesa Ylinen Team Manager: Wolfgang Ziller

Holsted 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Total
1 Nicki Pedersen 3 3 3 3 3 15
2 Niels K Iversen 3 2 ret 3 2 10
3 Bjarne Pedersen 3 3 2 1 3 12
4 Kenneth Bjerre 1 3 3 2 3 12
5 Hans Andersen 3 3 3 1 3 13
DENMARK 3 6 9 10 13 16 18 21 24 27 30 30 32 35 38 41 44 45 47 48 51 53 56 59 62 62
1 Ales Dryml 2 2 2 2 1 1 10
2 Lukas Dryml 2 1 2 2 2 9
3 Bohumil Brhel 2 2 2 3 3 3 15
4 Tomas Topinka 2 ret 3 3 4^ 12
5 Josef Franc 2 1 - - 2 5
CZECH REPUBLIC 2 4 6 8 10 10 11 13 14 16 18 21 24 26 28 30 31 33 36 39 41 44 48 50 51 51
1 Kaj Laukkanen 1 2 1 2 2 1 9
2 Kauko Nieminen 0 1 1 1 0 3
3 Tomi Reima 0 - 0 - 1 1
4 Joonas Kylmakorpi 3 4^ 3 1 3 2 16
5 Juha Hautamaki 0 1 2 0 0 3
FINLAND 1 1 1 4 4 8 11 12 14 15 16 18 19 20 20 21 23 26 26 28 28 29 29 30 32 32
1 Mirko Wolter 0 0 1 1 2^ 4
2 Martin Smolinski 1 ret 0 0 f,rm 1
3 Ronny Weis 1 0 1 0 0 2
4 Matthias Schultz 0 0 0 0 1 1
5 Christian Hefenbrock 1 1 0 0 0 2
GERMANY 0 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 8 8 10 10 10 10
Time 60.0 59.8 59.3 60.1 60.2 60.3 60.3 60.3 60.0 60.7 60.5 60.7 60.2 60.1 60.7 60.2 60.3 60.2 60.3 60.5 60.9 60.6 60.9 60.9 61.3

EVENT 2 Mon 04.08 : Outrup, Denmark Att: 1,700 Referee: Mats Malmberg (Swe)
Note: USA withdrew on 29.07. Latvia (3rd in preliminary round) were unable to raise a team at short notice, so Italy (4th in preliminary round) replaced USA.
Australia 62 Great Britain 60 Slovenia 28 Italy 6
Team Manager: Neil Street Team Manager: Neil Middleditch Team Manager: Franc Kalin Team Manager: Ute Obermann

Outrup 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Total
1 Todd Wiltshire 1 2 2 ret 2 7
2 Ryan Sullivan 2 2 2 2 3 11
3 Leigh Adams 3 3 3 3 3 15
4 Jason Crump 3 3 3 3 3 15
5 Jason Lyons 3 3 3 3 2 14
AUSTRALIA 1 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 23 25 28 31 33 35 38 40 43 46 49 49 51 53 56 59 62 62
1 Scott Nicholls 2 2 3 2 2 11
2 Lee Richardson 3 3 2 2 6^ 3 19
3 David Norris 2 3 2 2 3 12
4 Gary Havelock 2 2 2 - 2 8
5 Dean Barker 2 2 3 1 2 10
GREAT BRITAIN 2 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 20 23 25 27 30 33 35 36 38 40 42 48 51 54 56 58 60 60
1 Matej Zagar 3 1 1 3 4^ 1 13
2 Izak Santej 1 0 1 1 1 4
3 Jernej Kolenko ret 1 1 1 1 4
4 Ales Dolinar 1 1 0 1 1 4
5 Denis Stojs 1 1 0 - 1 3
SLOVENIA 3 4 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 13 13 16 17 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 28 28
1 Andrea Maida 0 1 1 0 0 2
2 Simone Terenzani 0 0 0 0
3 Christian Miotello 1 0 0 f,rm 2^ 0 3
4 Daniele Tessari ret 0 0 f,rm 0 0
5 Simone Muratelli 0 0 1 0 0 f,rm 1
ITALY 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Time 57.7 58.3 58.5 59.1 58.9 57.7 58.3 58.4 59.7 59.8 58.0 58.3 59.0 58.5 58.6 ? 58.4 59.6 59.7 59.7 59.1 59.4 59.9 59.8 58.6

EVENT 3 Tue 05.08 : Holsted, Denmark Att: 1,200 Referee: Mats Malmberg (Swe)
Poland 58 Sweden 56 Russia* 28 Hungary 9
Team Manager: Andrzej Rusko Team Manager: Tony Olsson Team Manager: Igor Dmitriev Team Manager: Norbert Barath
* Russia qualified for the race-off ahead of Slovenia (from Event 2) due to their higher F.I.M Ranking
Holsted 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Total
1 Tomasz Gollob 2 2 3 3 3 13
2 Tomasz Bajerski 3 2 3 2 2 12
3 Sebastian Ulamek 2 1 2 3 3 11
4 Piotr Protasiewicz 2 2 3 2 f,ex 9
5 Jaroslaw Hampel 3 3 3 3 1 13
POLAND 2 5 7 9 12 13 15 18 20 22 25 28 31 34 36 38 41 43 46 49 50 53 55 58 58 58
1 Tony Rickardsson 3 3 3 2 3 14
2 Mikael Max 1 2 2 2 2 9
3 Andreas Jonsson 3 3 2 3 3 14
4 Peter Karlsson 3 3 2 2 3 13
5 David Ruud
 2 3 1 ret 0 6
SWEDEN 3 4 7 10 12 15 18 20 23 26 28 30 32 33 36 39 41 41 43 45 48 48 51 53 56 56
1 Sergey Darkin 1 0 2 0 6^ - 9
2 Renat Gafurov 0 1 1 - 2 f,ex 4
3 Semen Vlasov 1 1 1 1 2 6
4 Roman Povazhny 1 2 1 1 1 1 7
5 Denis Gizatullin 1 0 1 - 0 2
RUSSIA 1 1 2 3 4 6 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 15 21 22 23 25 27 28 28 28 28
1 Zoltan Adorjan 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Norbert Magosi 2 1 0 1 1 2^ 7
3 Sandor Tihanyi 0 1 0 1 0 0 2
4 Szabolcs Vida 0 0 0 - - 0
5 Csaba Hell 0 0 0 0 f,ex 0
HUNGARY 0 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 9 9 9
Time 59.3 60.0 59.3 59.1 59.4 60.8 59.5 59.8 59.5 59.5 60.5 59.8 60.3 60.9 59.1 59.6 59.9 60.4 59.8 61.1 60.8 61.9 60.5 60.6 64.1

RACE-OFF (1st & 2nd to Final) 5-rider races : scoring 4-3-2-1-0
Thu 07.08 : Outrup, Denmark Att: 2,200 Referee: Mick Bates (GB)
Great Britain 80 Sweden 63 Czech Rep. 61 Finland 26 Russia 24
Team Manager: Neil Middleditch Team Manager: Tony Olsson Team Manager: Josef Lastovka Team Manager: Vesa Ylinen Team Manager: Igor Dmitriev
Outrup 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Total
1 Scott Nicholls 4 4 4 4 3 19
2 Dean Barker 0 4 2 4 4 14
3 Gary Havelock 4 3 4 2 2 15
4 Lee Richardson 4 3 4 3 4 18
5 David Norris 3 2 2 3 4 14
GREAT BRITAIN 4 4 8 12 15 18 20 24 28 31 35 39 41 45 47 50 54 58 60 63 67 69 73 77 80 80
1 Andreas Jonsson 1 3 4 4 4 4 20
2 Mikael Max 3 4 3 ex^ 2 12
3 Peter Ljung f.rm 4 1 0 - 5
4 Peter Karlsson 2 4 2 3 3 4 18
5 David Ruud 4 1 2 - 1 8
SWEDEN 1 4 4 6 10 14 18 19 22 26 28 30 34 37 38 38 38 41 45 49 50 54 56 59 63 63
1 Ales Dryml 3 ex-t 3 3 1 1 11
2 Tomas Topinka 4 2 1 3 6^ 2 18
3 Lukas Dryml 3 0 2 2 3 10
4 Bohumil Brhel 1 3 3 4 4 3 18
5 Toni Svab 2 2 - - - 4
CZECH REPUBLIC 3 7 10 11 13 15 15 18 20 20 23 26 27 29 33 37 40 41 44 46 49 52 58 59 61 61
1 Kauko Nieminen 0 1 0 1 1 3
2 Joonas Kylmakorpi 2 2 ret 0 2 0 6
3 Juha Hautamaki 1 1 0 - - 2
4 Kaj Laukkanen 3 2 3 2^ 1 2 13
5 Tomi Reima 1 0 0 0 1 2
FINLAND 0 2 3 6 7 7 8 10 11 13 13 13 16 16 16 18 19 19 20 20 22 23 24 26 26 26
1 Sergey Darkin 2 1 1 2 f ex^ 6
2 Renat Gafurov 1 3 1 2 ex 7
3 Denis Gizatullin 2 0 0 - - 2
4 Semen Vlasov 0 0 1 0 0 - 1
5 Roman Povazhny 0 1 3 2 1 1 8
RUSSIA 2 3 5 5 5 6 9 9 9 10 11 12 12 13 16 18 20 22 22 23 23 23 23 23 24 24
Time 59.1 59.0 59.5 59.5 60.1 59.5 60.0 59.3 59.7 59.3 59.7 58.9 59.6 59.3 59.7 58.7 58.9 59.4 59.2 59.7 59.7 59.3 59.6 59.5 59.7

FINAL 5-rider races : scoring 4-3-2-1-0
Sat 09.08 : Vojens, Denmark Att: reported in press as 13,300; FIM Official Attendance reported as 5,000 Referee: Mick Bates (GB)
Sweden 62 Australia 57 Denmark 53 Poland 49 Great Britain 44
Team Manager: Tony Olsson Team Manager: Neil Street Team Manager: Jacob Olsen Team Manager: Andrzej Rusko Team Manager: Neil Middleditch

Vojens 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Total
1 Andreas Jonsson 0 3 3 4 2 12
2 Mikael Max 4 4 2 4 8^ 3 25
3 Peter Ljung 2 4 0 0 4 10
4 Peter Karlsson 2 2 1 2 3 10
5 David Ruud 3 1 0 - 1 5
SWEDEN 0 4 6 8 11 15 17 18 21 25 26 26 29 31 31 35 35 37 45 49 50 52 55 59 62 62
1 Jason Crump 4 4 4 4 1 17
2 Todd Wiltshire 3 2 4 4 2 15
3 Jason Lyons f,ex f,ex f,ex ret 0 0
4 Ryan Sullivan 3 1 3 2 1 10
5 Leigh Adams 4 4 4 2 1 15
AUSTRALIA 4 7 7 10 14 15 19 23 25 25 25 28 32 36 40 42 46 50 50 52 54 54 55 56 57 57
1 Nicki Pedersen 3 3 1 3 8^ 3 21
2 Hans Andersen 1 2 2 2 0 7
3 Bjarne Pedersen 4 0 1 f,ex 4 9
4 Ronni Pedersen 1 2 - 1 - 4
5 Charlie Gjedde 2 f,ex 4 1 3 2 12
DENMARK 3 4 8 9 11 13 13 15 15 18 22 23 25 26 27 28 31 34 36 36 40 48 50 53 53 53
1 Tomasz Gollob 2 3 - 3 6^ 4 18
2 Tomasz Bajerski 2 0 3 2 1 0 8
3 Jaroslaw Hampel 1 1 4 0 3 4 13
4 Sebastian Ulamek 4 1 0 1 - 6
5 Piotr Protasiewicz 1 3 f,ex 0 - 4
POLAND 2 4 5 9 10 13 16 16 17 18 21 25 25 25 27 27 28 28 31 32 38 41 45 45 49 49
1 Gary Havelock 1 0 2 - f,ex 3
2 Dean Barker 0 1 2 2 1 6
3 David Norris 3 3 1 1 f,rm 8
4 Lee Richardson 0 8^ 3 1 2 14
5 Scott Nicholls 0 2 3 3 3 2 13
GREAT BRITAIN 1 1 4 4 4 4 5 8 16 18 20 22 23 26 29 32 34 35 36 39 39 40 40 42 44 44
Time 57.8* 58.5 59.5 58.7 59.8 59.5 59.3 60.4 60.4 60.0 60.5 59.9 60.2 60.7 60.7 60.6 61.2 60.9 60.2 60.7 60.8 60.8 61.1 60.8 60.5

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^ = Double-point "Joker" ride ; * = track record
ef = engine failure ; ex = excluded ; ex-t = excluded-tapes ; ex-2 = excluded-2 minutes ; f = fell ; ret = retired
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