# 2001 Speedway Grand Prix > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2001_Speedway_Grand_Prix > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2001_Speedway_Grand_Prix.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Speedway_Grand_Prix > Source revision: 1293204725 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) World championship speedway season 2001 Speedway Grand Prix Season details Dates 5 May – 29 September Events 6 Cities 6 Countries 6 Riders 22 permanents 2 wild card(s) Heats 144 (in 6 events) Winners Champion SWE Tony Rickardsson Runner-up AUS Jason Crump 3rd place POL Tomasz Gollob ← 2000 Speedway Grand Prix 2002 → The **2001 Speedway Grand Prix** was the 56th edition of the official World Championship[1][2][3] and the seventh season in the [Speedway Grand Prix](/source/Speedway_Grand_Prix) era and is used to determine the [Speedway World Champion](/source/Speedway_World_Championship). ## Event format 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 and the last two going towards the consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th to 8th scoring 15, 14, 12 and 10-point, 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 Main article: [2001 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification](/source/2001_Speedway_Grand_Prix_Qualification) The 2001 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below. [Joe Screen](/source/Joe_Screen) had also qualified as a permanent rider for the 2001 season however as a result of injury he did not take part in any Grand Prix. He was replaced by first reserve, Henrik Gustafsson. ## Calendar Round Date City and venue Winner Runner-up 3rd placed 4th placed Results 1 5 May Berlin , Germany F. L. Jahn Stadium Tomasz Gollob Henrik Gustafsson Nicki Pedersen Tony Rickardsson results 2 9 June Cardiff , Great Britain Millennium Stadium Tony Rickardsson Jason Crump Tomasz Gollob Niklas Klingberg results 3 28 July Vojens , Denmark Speedway Center Tony Rickardsson Jason Crump Leigh Adams Tomasz Gollob results 4 18 August Prague , Czech Republic Markéta Stadium Billy Hamill Tony Rickardsson Jason Crump Tomasz Gollob results 5 8 September Bydgoszcz , Poland Polonia Stadium Jason Crump Tony Rickardsson Mikael Karlsson Billy Hamill results 6 29 September Stockholm , Sweden Stockholms Stadion Jason Crump Mikael Karlsson Ryan Sullivan Mark Loram results ## Final standings Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series Full-time Grand Prix rider Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve Pos. Rider Points GER GBR DEN CZE POL SWE (3) Tony Rickardsson 121 16 25 25 20 20 15 (4) Jason Crump 113 5 20 20 18 25 25 (7) Tomasz Gollob 89 25 18 16 16 8 6 4 (9) Ryan Sullivan 80 10 15 8 15 14 18 5 (6) Leigh Adams 69 12 8 18 10 7 14 6 (2) Billy Hamill 61 5 3 4 25 16 8 7 (15) Mikael Karlsson 59 2 2 12 5 18 20 8 (8) Todd Wiltshire 56 14 14 14 6 3 5 9 (1) Mark Loram 54 6 8 5 7 12 16 10 (21) Niklas Klingberg 54 4 16 15 8 4 7 11 (13) Nicki Pedersen 52 18 7 7 6 8 6 12 (12) Carl Stonehewer 46 7 5 4 12 6 12 13 (5) Greg Hancock 43 8 6 5 4 10 10 14 (14) Rune Holta 41 1 2 10 8 15 5 15 (11) Peter Karlsson 39 15 – 8 2 6 8 16 (26) Grzegorz Walasek 34 – 10 6 14 4 – 17 (25) Henrik Gustafsson 33 20 3 2 3 2 3 18 (19) Brian Andersen 23 8 5 3 4 1 2 19 (22) Matej Ferjan 21 7 7 1 2 3 1 20 (16) Piotr Protasiewicz 20 4 6 1 5 2 2 21 (17) Jimmy Nilsen 20 1 12 7 – – – 22 (20) Andy Smith 12 3 1 2 1 1 4 23 (23) (27) Antonín Kasper Jr. 11 – – – 3 5 3 24 (24) Bohumil Brhel 7 – – – 7 – – 25 (24) Jarosław Hampel 7 – – – – 7 – 26 (24) Andreas Jonsson 7 – – – – – 7 27 (10) Chris Louis 6 3 1 – 1 – 1 28 (23) Robert Barth 6 6 – – – – – 29 (23) Hans Clausen 6 – – 6 – – – 30 (23) Krzysztof Cegielski 5 – – – – 5 – 31 (23) Martin Dugard 4 – 4 – – – – 32 (23) Stefan Andersson 4 – – – – – 4 33 (24) Scott Nicholls 4 – 4 – – – – 34 (24) Jesper B. Jensen 3 – – 3 – – – 35 (24) Mirko Wolter 2 2 – – – – – Rider(s) not classified (18) Joe Screen — – – – – – – Pos. Rider Points GER GBR DEN CZE POL SWE ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX"](https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/worldfinalindex). *British Speedway*. Retrieved July 10, 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK"](http://www.speedway.org/history/). *Speedway.org*. Retrieved July 10, 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Speedway riders, history and results"](https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/6933/world-champions). *wwosbackup*. Retrieved July 10, 2021. ## External links - [Official Speedway GP site](https://web.archive.org/web/20070203093546/http://www.speedwayworld.tv/) v t e Motorcycle speedway events in 2001 season World Grand Prix German (Berlin) British (Cardiff) Danish (Vojens) Czech Rep. (Prague) Polish (Bydgoszcz) Swedish (Stockholm) World Cup Qualifying Others Individual U-21 Championship European Individual Championship Individual U-19 Championship Club Champions' Cup v t e Individual Speedway World Championship and Speedway Grand Prix seasons Speedway World Championship 1936 1937 1938 1939 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Speedway Grand Prix (SGP) 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 See also Medalists Medal Classification Grands Prix SGP riders Super Prix SGP Statistics --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [2001 Speedway Grand Prix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Speedway_Grand_Prix) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Speedway_Grand_Prix?action=history)). 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