Speedway of Nations
Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Speedway of Nations | |
| Formerly | Speedway World Pairs Championship (held 1968-1993) |
|---|---|
| Sport | Motorcycle speedway |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Director | Phil Morris |
| Motto | No brakes, no gears, no fear |
| No. of teams | 15 national teams |
| Continent | World |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Great Britain |
| Most titles |  Russia (3 times) |
| TV partner(s) | Eurosport 2 (UK) |
| Official website | FIMspeedway.com/son |
The Speedway of Nations is a motorcycle speedway event for national teams, held each year in a different country. The first edition of the competition in the current format took place in 2018.[1] It was the first time an official FIM international pairs competition was staged since the World Pairs Championship ceased in 1993. Great Britain are the current champions after winning in 2024. The Speedway of Nations was not held in 2023 due to the return of the Speedway World Cup, but returned to the speedway calendar in 2024 and 2025.[2][3]
Format
[edit]Each meeting is staged between seven national teams, with each national team represented by two riders. A third rider, who must be aged 21 years or under, acts as a reserve and can be used at any time. Each pairing rides against each other once. The combined total of each pair will be used to determine the outcome.[4]
Two semi-finals are held with the top three teams in each progressing to the final. The final is then staged between the hosts and the six qualified nations. It takes places over two rounds, with the second and third placed nations progressing to the semi-final, which is a single race. The winner of the semi-final faces the first placed nation in the Grand Final. The Grand Final winners are crowned Speedway of Nations champions.
Past Winners
[edit]
- 2020 Finished after 14 Heats due to bad weather condition. Russia awarded gold as they beat Poland in Heat 8.
Medal classification
[edit]| Pos | National Team |  |
 |
 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Russia
|
3 | - | - | 3 |
| 2. | Great Britain
|
2 | 2 | - | 4 |
| 3. |  Australia
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4. |  Poland
|
- | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 5. |  Denmark
|
- | - | 2 | 2 |
| 6. |  Sweden
|
- | - | 2 | 2 |
Leading riders
[edit]| Pos | Rider | Team | |
|
|
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Artem Laguta | Russia
|
3 | - | - | 3 |
| Emil Sayfutdinov | Russia
|
3 | - | - | 3 | |
| 3. | Robert Lambert | Great Britain
|
2 | 2 | - | 4 |
| 4. | Dan Bewley | Great Britain
|
2 | 1 | - | 3 |
| 5. | Gleb Chugunov | Russia
|
2 | - | - | 2 |
| Tom Brennan | Great Britain
|
2 | - | - | 2 | |
| 7. | Tai Woffinden | Great Britain
|
1 | 2 | - | 3 |
| 8. | Max Fricke | Australia
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9. | Jack Holder | Australia
|
1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| 10. | Jason Doyle | Australia
|
1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| 11. | Evgeny Saidullin | Russia
|
1 | - | - | 1 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Breaking News:FIM Speedway of Nations". SGP.com.
- ^ "2023 MONSTER ENERGY FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP FORMAT REVEALED". FIM Speedway. 5 April 2023. Archived from the original on 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ "Great Britain wins FIM Speedway of Nations World Title in Manchester Thriller". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ "Speedway of Nations draw and calendar". SGP.com.
| Speedway World Team Cup |  | |
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| Speedway World Cup (SWC) | ||
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World championships in pairs speedway | ||
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| Speedway World Pairs Championship | | |
| Speedway of Nations (SON) | ||
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