# 2001 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

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2001 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification ← 2000 2002 →

The **2001 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification** or **GP Challenge** was a series of [motorcycle speedway](/source/Motorcycle_speedway) meetings used to determine the 12 riders that would qualify for the [2001 Speedway Grand Prix](/source/2001_Speedway_Grand_Prix)[1] to join the other 10 riders that finished in the leading positions from the [2000 Speedway Grand Prix](/source/2000_Speedway_Grand_Prix).[2]

The format was similar to the previous year, in that 2 riders would qualify straight from the Intercontinental and Continental finals and 10 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge.

[Peter Karlsson](/source/Peter_Karlsson_(speedway_rider)) won the GP Challenge.[3]

## Format

- First Round - 6 riders from Sweden, 5 from Denmark, 3 from Norway, 2 from Finland to [Scandinavian Final](/source/Nordic_Speedway_Final)

- First Round - 27 riders from Continental quarter finals to Continental semi-finals

- First Round - 8 riders from British Final to [Overseas Final](/source/Overseas_Final)

- First Round - 2 riders from Australian Final to Overseas Final

- First Round - 1 rider from New Zealand Final to Overseas Final

- First Round - 3 riders from United States Final to Overseas Final

- Second Round - 8 riders from Scandinavian Final to [Intercontinental Final](/source/Intercontinental_Final)

- Second Round - 8 riders from Overseas Final to Intercontinental Final

- Second Round - 16 riders from Continental semi-finals to [Continental Final](/source/Continental_Speedway_Final)

- Third Round - 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 2000 Grand Prix, World U21 champion & host rider to GP Challenge

- Third Round - 1 rider from the Continental Final to 2001 Grand Prix and 4 to GP Challenge

- Third Round - 1 rider from the Intercontinental Final to 2001 Grand Prix and 7 to GP Challenge

- Final Round - 10 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2001 Grand Prix

## First round

### Continental quarter finals

QF (30 Apr Terenzano) Pos Rider Points 1 Rafał Okoniewski 13+ 2 Adam Skórnicki 13+ 3 Andrea Maida 12 4 Zlatko Krznaric 11 5 Alessandro Dalla Valle 9 6 Zoltán Adorján 9 7 Bohumil Brhel 8 8 Lukáš Dryml 7 9 Simone Terenzani 7 10 Aleš Dryml Jr. 7 11 László Szatmári 7 12 Rinat Mardanshin 6 13 Tolgat Galeev 3 14 Simone Tadiello 3 15 Stéphane Trésarrieu 2 16 Sebastien Trésarrieu 2 17 Eduard Shajkoulin 1 QF (14 May Pfaffenhofen) Pos Rider Points 1 Piotr Protasiewicz 15 2 Joachim Kugelmann 13 3 Grzegorz Walasek 12 4 Róbert Nagy 11 5 Sergej Darkin 11 6 Mirko Wolter 9 7 Nikolaj Kokins 8 8 Antonín Šváb Jr. 8 9 Sergej Eroschin 7 10 Michal Makovský 7 11 Steffen Mell 6 12 Toni Pilotto 5 13 Attila Stefáni 5 14 Vladimir Voronkovs 2 15 Erik Eijbergen 1 16 Uilke Kooistra 0 17 Stefan Bachhuber 0 18 Herbert Rudolph 0 QF (14 May Krško) Pos Rider Points 1 Matej Ferjan 15 2 Robert Sawina 12 3 Armando Castagna 10 4 Tomasz Bajerski 10 5 Izak Šantej 9 6 Piotr Świst 9 7 Adrian Rymel 9 8 Tomas Sustersic 8 9 Tomáš Topinka 8 10 Marián Jirout 8 11 Pavel Ondrašík 7 12 Stefano Alfonso 5 13 Thomas Stadler 4 14 Emiliano Sanchez 4 15 Vladimir Trofimov 1 16 Volodymyr Kolodij 1

## Second round

### Overseas Final

Main article: [2000 Overseas Final](/source/2000_Overseas_Final)

8 riders to Intercontinental Final

### Scandinavian Final

8 riders to Intercontinental Final

(18 June 2000 Elgane) Pos Rider Points 1 Rune Holta 13 2 Lars Gunnestad 13 3 Nicki Pedersen 12 4 Stefan Andersson 11 5 Niklas Klingberg 10 6 John Jørgensen 9 7 Peter Nahlin 9 8 Bjarne Pedersen 9 9 Jesper B Jensen 9 10 Kai Laukkanen 7 11 Andreas Jonsson 6 12 Claes Ivarsson 4 13 Ronni Pedersen 3 14 Peter Ingvar Karlsson 3 15 Tomi Reima 1 16 Björn G Hansen 1

### Continental semi finals

Continental semi-finals - 16 riders from to Continental final, [Armando Castagna](/source/Armando_Castagna) seeded to final

SF 22 June 2000 Gdańsk Pos. Rider Points 1 Piotr Protasiewicz 11 2 Sebastian Ulamek 10 3 Krzysztof Jabłoński 10 4 Antonín Šváb Jr. 8 5 Adam Skórnicki 7 6 Zoltán Adorján 6 7 Izak Šantej 6 8 Nikolaj Kokins 6 9 Adrian Rymel 6 10 Sergej Darkin 5 11 Mirko Wolter 5 12 Sergej Eroshin 5 13 Zlatko Krznaric 4 14 Tomáš Topinka 4 15 Andrea Maida 2 16 Michal Makovský 1 17 Sándor Tihanyi 0 SF 22 June 2000 Olching Pos. Rider Points 1 Matej Ferjan 12 2 Robert Barth 11 3 Piotr Świst 11 4 Róbert Nagy 11 5 Grzegorz Walasek 11 6 Bohumil Brhel 9 7 Joachim Kugelmann 9 8 Tomasz Bajerski 9 9 Alessandro Dalla Valle 7 10 Tomas Sustersic 6 11 Roman Povazhny 6 12 Rafał Okoniewski 6 13 Lukáš Dryml 6 14 Aleš Dryml Jr. 3 15 Armando Castagna 3 16 László Szatmári 0 17 Pavel Ondrašík 0 18 Steffen Mell 0

## Third round

- 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the [2000 Speedway Grand Prix](/source/2000_Speedway_Grand_Prix), World U21 champion & host rider to GP Challenge

### Intercontinental Final

Main article: [2000 Intercontinental Final](/source/2000_Intercontinental_Final)

1 rider direct to Grand Prix, 7 riders to GP Challenge

### Continental Final

- 1 rider direct to Grand Prix, 4 riders to GP Challenge

- 9 July 2000 [Lonigo](/source/Lonigo)

Pos. Rider Points 1 Matej Ferjan 14 2 Piotr Protasiewicz 14 3 Piotr Świst 13 4 Sebastian Ułamek 11 5 Grzegorz Walasek 10 6 Krzysztof Jabłoński 10 7 Adam Skórnicki 8 8 Bohumil Brhel 7 9 Armando Castagna 7 10 Tomasz Bajerski 5 11 Róbert Nagy 5 12 Antonín Šváb Jr. 4 13 Izak Šantej 4 14 Robert Barth 3 15 Joachim Kugelmann 3 16 Zoltán Adorján 2

## Final Round

### GP Challenge

10 riders to 2001 Grand Prix

- 8 October 2000 [Abensberg](/source/Abensberg)

Pos. Rider pre-event main-event sf Final 1 Peter Karlsson x 2, 2 3 3 2 Carl Stonehewer x 0, 3, 3 3 2 3 Nicki Pedersen 1, 3, 3 3 2 1 4 Rune Holta 3, 0, 2 1, 2, 3, 2 2 0 5 Mikael Karlsson x 3, 3 1 x 6 Piotr Protasiewicz 2, 0, 3 3, 1, 2 1 x 7 Jimmy Nilsen x 2, 2 0 x 8 Joe Screen x 0, 2, 3 0 x 9 Brian Andersen 3, 3 3, 1, 1 x x 10 Andy Smith 3, 2 2, 0, 1 x x 11 Henrik Gustafsson x 2, 0, 0 x x 12 Grzegorz Walasek 2, 3 1, 3, 0 x x 13 Antonín Kasper Jr. x 0, 1 x x 14 Rafał Dobrucki x 1, 1 x x 15 Sebastian Ułamek 2, 2 0 x x 16 Gary Havelock 1, 3, 2 1, 0 x x 17 Piotr Świst 3, 1, 1 x x x 18 Steve Johnston 0, 2, 1 x x x 19 Brian Karger 2, 1, 0 x x x 20 John Jørgensen 0, 2, 0 x x x 21 Jesper B Jensen 0, 1 x x x 22 Andreas Jonsson 0, 1 x x x 23 Jason Lyons 1, 0 x x x 24 Robert Barth 1, 0 x x x

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Individual Championship"](http://www.speedway.org/history/00.htm#2000). *Speedway.org*. Retrieved 7 January 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["HISTORICAL LIST OF RESULTS 1995-2013 Speedway Grand Prix - Qualifications"](http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/grandprixquali.php). *Speedway History*. Retrieved 7 January 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Speedway: Cheetahs duo get through GP qualifying"](https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/6627748.speedway-cheetahs-duo-get-gp-qualifying/). *Oxford Mail*. Retrieved 7 January 2023.

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