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2008

Denmark win again at slick, wet, Vojens
To win the first qualifier Hungary needed home advantage, Slovenian Ferjan in the team with a Hungarian passport, and a little luck in a run-off for first place, when Ferjan's German opponent Kroner stalled at the gate. No such close contest at Ljubljana where the Czechs were never troubled.

Event 1 at Leszno saw a repeat of last year's titanic battle in the Race-Off at the same track between Poland and Australia, though this time it went down to a run-off with victory going to long-serving Leszno rider Adams for Australia. This is a great race track when prepared correctly, and certainly suited young Russian Sajfutdinov who gave an exciting, if occasionally uncontrolled, performance.

Denmark were in devastating form at Coventry, all of their riders recording double-figure scores, but credit Sweden too for a brilliant display by Jonas Davidsson and their younger riders. If GB fans thought that their team's performance in last years' Final was as bad as they could get, then they were in for a shock. The team, stacked with Coventry specialists, were embarrassingly bad, and new team manager Jim Lynch must have wondered what he had done to deserve this. Just 		one race win all night, and at one point it looked as though they would be lucky to finish third.

With Woffinden and Kennett in for Stead and Allen, GB at least showed more enthusiasm in the Race-Off at rainy Vojens, but the meeting was all about Poland and Sweden. The Poles led for most of the first half of the match, but when Sweden narrowed the points gap, Poland hit a bad patch and scored just 10 points in 7 heats. Lindgren was on top form for the Swedes, but they all won races. Russia were short-handed as they had let Sajfutdinov go and practice for his World U-21 semi-final in Croatia on the Saturday!

Denmark were odds-on favourites to win the Final at Vojens - and so they did, but only after an incident-packed match, torrential rain, a power-cut, some of the hardest racing seen in the SWC, crashes, and a close battle between the winners and the Poles. The Australians lost Crump with a broken wrist in his first ride and team manager Boyce said their performance thereafter was "disgraceful". But the Danes second victory in 3 years was well-merited.

QUALIFYING ROUNDS (Winners to Events 1 & 2)

QUALIFYING ROUND 1 Sun 25.05 : Miskolc, Hungary FIM Official Att: 2,000 Referee: Mick Bates (GB)
Hungary 51+3 Germany 51+0 Latvia 36 USA 12

Miskolc 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 Matej Ferjan 3 3 1 3 3 3 13 +3
2 Norbert Magosi 2 2 3 2 3 12
3 Laszlo Szatmari 2 2 2 3 2 11
4 Jozsef Tabaka 1 3 1 0 2 7
5 Sandor Tihanyi 2 1 3 1 1 8
HUNGARY 3 5 7 8 10 12 15 16 19 21 22 25 26 29 31 33 36 36 37 40 41 44 47 49 51 +3 51 +3
1 Martin Smolinski 2 1 3 3 3 12
2 Richard Speiser ef 2 2 2 1 7
3 Tobias Kroner 3 3 3 3 ef ef 12 +0
4 Kevin Wolbert 2 2 1 2 1 8
5 Christian Hefenbrock 1 3 3 2 3 12
GERMANY 2 2 5 7 8 9 11 14 16 19 22 24 27 28 31 34 36 39 41 43 46 47 47 48 51 +0 51 +0
1 Andrey Korolev not allowed to ride for Latvia, as he had recently become a Polish citizen -
2 Kjastas Puodzhuks 1 2 2 1 1 3 10
3 Evgeny Petuhovs 1 1 ef 1 1 1 5
4Viatcheslav Gieruckis 3 1 2 0 3 0 9
5 Leonid Paura 3 3 2 2 2 12
LATVIA 0 1 2 5 8 11 11 13 14 15 17 17 19 21 22 23 23 25 28 29 29 31 32 35 36 36
1 Billy Janniro 1 0 0 1 - 2
2 Ryan Fisher 3 ef 0 1 2 6
3 Shaun Harmatiuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Kenny Ingalls 0 0 1 0 2 3
5 Tommy Hedden 0 1 0 0 ef 1
USA 1 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 8 8 8 10 10 12 12 12 12

QUALIFYING ROUND 2 Sun 29.06 : Ljubljana, Slovenia FIM Official Att: 1,500 Referee : Jim Lawrence (GB)
Czech Republic 59 Finland 40 Slovenia 35 Italy 16

Ljubljana 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 Matej Kus 3 1 3 2 3 12
2 Ales Dryml 3 2 3 2 3 13
3 Adrian Rymel 2 2 3 1 2 10
4 Lukas Dryml 3 1 3 3 3 13
5 Lubos Tomicek 3 3 3 ef 2 11
CZECH REPUBLIC 3 6 8 11 14 15 18 19 21 23 26 29 32 35 38 38 40 42 43 46 49 51 54 56 59 59
1 Tomi Reima 2 1 1 2 0 6
2 Juha Hautamaki 0 3 2 2 1 8
3 Kauko Nieminen 1 3 1 1 3 3 12
4 Tero Aarnio 1 ef - 1 2 4
5 Kaj Laukkanen 2 2 2 2 2 10
FINLAND 2 2 3 4 6 9 9 11 12 15 16 18 19 21 22 24 27 28 30 32 34 34 35 38 40 40
1 Denis Stojs
 0 0 0 - 0 0
2 Izak Santej 2 2 0 1 1 3 9
3 Matej Zagar 3 3 2 2 3 2 15
4 Maks Gregoric 0 3 0 3 3 1 10
5 Ales Kraljic ef ef - - 1 1
SLOVENIA 0 2 5 5 5 5 7 10 13 13 13 13 15 15 17 20 21 24 27 28 28 31 33 34 35 35
1 Mattia Carpanese 1 1 1 0 0 0 3
2 Alessandro Milanese 1 0 2 1 0 0 4
3 Daniele Tessari
 0 0 - - 0 0
4 Marco Gregnanin 2 1 0 0 1 4
5 Andrea Maida 1 2 1 0 1 5
ITALY 1 2 2 4 5 7 8 8 8 9 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 15 16 16 16 16 16

EVENTS 1 & 2 (Winners to Final; 2nd & 3rd to Race-Off)

EVENT 1 Sat 12.07 : Leszno, Poland FIM Official Att: 8,000 Referee : Krister Gardell (Swe)
Australia 56+3 Poland 56+2 Russia 36 Hungary 10
Team Manager: Craig Boyce Team Manager: Team Manager: Team Manager:

Leszno 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 Jason Crump 3 1 2 2 3 11
2 Leigh Adams © 3 2 3 3 6^ 3 3 20 +3
3 Ryan Sullivan 2 3 1 1 1 8
4 Dave Watt 2 3 0 - 1 6
5 Chris Holder 3 2 1 3 2 11
AUSTRALIA 3 6 8 10 13 14 16 19 22 24 26 29 30 30 31 33 36 37 43 46 49 52 53 54 56 3 56 +3
1 Krzysztof Kasprzak 1 2 3 2 2 10
2 Rune Holta 2 3 3 3 2 13
3 Tomasz Gollob © 3 3 2 1 3 12
4 Jaroslaw Hampel 3 3 3 3 3 2 15 +2
5 Wieslaw Jagus 1 2 2 ret 1 6
POLAND 1 3 6 9 10 13 16 18 20 23 26 28 31 34 36 39 40 43 43 45 46 48 50 53 56 2 56 +2
1 Denis Gizatullin © 0 1 3 2 1 - 7
2 Grigori Laguta 1 1 1 - 2 5
3 Danil Ivanov 1 1 1 1 1 5
4 Renat Gafurov 1 1 2 0 1 0 5
5 Emil Sayfutdinov 2 2 2 2 - 6^ 14
RUSSIA 0 1 2 3 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 17 20 21 21 23 25 26 26 27 33 35 36 36
1 Matej Ferjan 2 0 1 2 4^ ret 9
2 Sandor Tihanyi © ex-t 0 0 0 - 0
3 Jozsef Tabaka 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
4 Norbert Magosi 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Laszlo Szatmari 0 0 0 0 - 0
HUNGARY 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 5 5 6 6 10 10 10 10 10 10
Time 61.10 59.77 61.40 61.44 61.63 60.75 61.08 61.52 62.03 62.15 61.51 61.80 62.64 62.43 62.51 61.70 61.68 62.20 62.16 62.98 62.37 62.23 63.48 63.44 62.94 ?

EVENT 2 Mon 14.07 : Coventry, GB FIM Official Att: 5,000 Referee: Christian Froschauer (Ger)
Denmark 63 Sweden 50½ Great Britain 25½ Czech Republic 13
Team Manager: Jan Staechmann Team Manager: Team Manager: Jim Lynch Team Manager:

Coventry 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 2 3 3 14
2 Niels K Iversen 3 2 2 3 2 12
3 Kenneth Bjerre 3 3 3 2 3 14
4 Hans Andersen © 2 0 2 3 3 10
5 Bjarne Pedersen 3 3 2 3 2 13
DENMARK 3 6 9 11 14 17 17 20 23 25 27 29 31 33 36 39 41 44 47 50 52 55 57 60 63 63
1 Fredrik Lindgren © 2 3 2 1½ 3 11½
2 Peter Ljung 1 2 1 1 2 7
3 Andreas Jonsson 1 2 3 1 2 9
4 Jonas Davidsson 3 6^ 3 1 3 16
5 Daniel Nermark 1 2 3 1 ex 7
SWEDEN 2 3 4 7 8 10 13 15 17 23 24 27 30 33 35 36 37 38 39½ 40½ 43½ 43½ 46½ 48½ 50½ 50½
1 Scott Nicholls © 1 0^ ex 2 1 4
2 Chris Harris 2 1 1 3 1½ ef 8½
3 Lee Richardson 2 1 0 2 1 6
4 Simon Stead 0 1 1 - 0 2
5 Oliver Allen 2 0 1 2 0 5
GREAT BRITAIN 1 3 5 5 7 7 8 9 10 10 10 11 11 12 13 15 18 20 21½ 23½ 24½ 24½ 25½ 25½ 25½ 25½
1 Matej Kus 0 0 - - 1 1
2 Ales Dryml © 0 0 0 0 - 0
3 Adrian Rymel 0 1 3 0^ 0 2 6
4 Filip Sitera 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
5 Lubos Tomicek 0 2 1 0 0 1 4
CZECH REPUBLIC 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 4 4 5 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 11 11 12 13 13
Time 58.6 59.1 59.4 58.9 59.9 59.6 59.9 60.0 59.2 60.2 60.7 59.8 59.8 60.6 60.8 60.1 60.3 60.5 60.4 60.1 60.0 61.0 61.0 61.2 61.1

RACE-OFF (1st & 2nd to Final)
Thu 17.07 : Vojens, Denmark FIM Official Att: 4,300 Referee: Frank Ziegler (Ger)
Sweden 53 Poland 50 Great Britain 36 Russia 17
Team Manager: Team Manager: Team Manager: Jim Lynch Team Manager:

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 Jonas Davidsson 2 2 3 2 1 10
2 Andreas Jonsson 3 2 3 3 2 13
3 Peter Ljung 1 3 0 3 3 10
4 Fredrik Lindgren © 3 2 3 3 3 14
5 Daniel Nermark 0 0 3 0 3 6
SWEDEN 2 5 6 9 9 9 11 13 16 18 21 21 24 27 30 33 36 36 38 41 44 47 48 50 53 53
1 Tomasz Gollob © 3 1 2 2 2 10
2 Wieslaw Jagus 2 2 2 3 2 11
3 Rune Holta 3 3 2 1 ef 9
4 Grzegorz Walasek 1 3 3 1 4^ 12
5 Jaroslaw Hampel 2 1 1 1 3 8
POLAND 3 5 8 9 11 14 15 16 18 21 23 26 27 29 31 32 34 37 38 39 41 41 45 48 50 50
1 Lee Richardson 0 2 1 - 1 4
2 Tai Woffinden 1 3 1 1 2 1 9
3 Chris Harris 2 3 2 2 2 0 11
4 Edward Kennett 2 f,ex 1 0 - 3
5 Scott Nicholls © 3 1 2^ 2 1 9
GREAT BRITAIN 0 1 3 5 8 10 13 16 16 17 18 19 21 22 24 26 27 29 29 31 32 34 34 35 36 36
1 Denis Gizatullin © 1 1 0 0 0 1 3
2 (no rider) - - - - - -
3 Danil Ivanov 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
4 Renat Gafurov ex 0 0 0 1 0 1
5 Grigori Laguta 1 0 2 3 ex 6^ 12
RUSSIA 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 10 10 10 11 17 17 17 17
Time 59.7 59.3 59.0 59.5 59.7 59.6 59.5 58.8 60.0 59.6 59.8 60.1 60.0 61.2 60.5 60.5 60.4 60.2 60.9 60.0 61.3 61.4 61.1 60.7 60.2

FINAL
Sat 19.07 : Vojens, Denmark F.I.M Official Att: 18,251 Referee: Frank Ziegler (Ger)
Denmark 49 Poland 46 Sweden 39 Australia 21
Team Manager: Jan Staechmann Team Manager: Team Manager: Team Manager: Craig Boyce

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 Nicki Pedersen 3 3 3 1 1 11
2 Bjarne Pedersen 2 3 1 2 3 11
3 Kenneth Bjerre 1 0 2 3 3 9
4 Niels K Iversen 1 0 1 2 3 7
5 Hans Andersen © 2 2 3 3 1 11
DENMARK 3 5 6 7 9 12 15 15 15 17 20 21 23 24 27 28 30 33 35 38 39 42 45 48 49 49
1 Rune Holta 1 2 1 0 1 5
2 Wieslaw Jagus 3 3 3 2 1 12
3 Tomasz Gollob © 3 2 2 3 4^ 14
4 Grzegorz Walasek 0 0 1 0 3 4
5 Jaroslaw Hampel 3 3 2 3 f,ex 11
POLAND 1 4 7 7 10 12 12 15 17 20 21 23 24 27 29 31 34 34 37 37 37 38 39 43 46 46
1 Andreas Jonsson © 0 1 2 1 3 2 9
2 Daniel Nermark 0 - 0 - - 0
3 Peter Ljung ex 0 2 f 2 4
4 Fredrik Lindgren 3 ex 6^ 3 2 2 16
5 Jonas Davidsson 0 1 3 3 2 1 10
SWEDEN 0 0 0 3 3 3 4 5 11 11 13 16 19 21 21 24 25 27 27 29 32 34 36 37 39 39
1 Leigh Adams © 2 2 1 1 0 0^ 6
2 Chris Holder 1 2 0 f,ex 1 ef 4
3 Jason Crump 2 1 - - - 3
4 Ryan Sullivan 2 1 0 0 2 5
5 Dave Watt 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
AUSTRALIA 2 3 5 7 8 9 11 13 14 15 15 15 15 15 16 16 16 17 18 19 21 21 21 21 21 21
Time 60.4 59.6 59.4 59.3 59.1 59.1 59.7 59.5 60.1 59.4 63.2 62.2 62.3 62.2 62.4 61.1 61.4 60.5 60.9 61.3 61.8 ? 60.3 60.1 60.4

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aw = race awarded (no time) ; ef = engine failure ; ex = excluded ; ex-t = excluded-tapes ; ex-2 = excluded-2 minutes ; f = fell ; ns = non-starter ; ret = retired ; rm = remounted
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