# 2002 Speedway Grand Prix > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2002_Speedway_Grand_Prix > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2002_Speedway_Grand_Prix.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Speedway_Grand_Prix > Source revision: 1328691760 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) World speedway championship season 2002 Speedway Grand Prix Season details Dates 11 May - 26 October Events 10 Cities 10 Countries 8 Riders 22 permanents 2 wild card(s) Heats 250 (in 10 events) Winners Champion SWE Tony Rickardsson Runner-up AUS Jason Crump 3rd place AUS Ryan Sullivan ← 2001 Speedway Grand Prix 2003 → The **2002 Speedway Grand Prix** was the 57th edition of the official World Championship[1][2][3] and the eighth season in the [Speedway Grand Prix](/source/Speedway_Grand_Prix) era used to determine the [Speedway World Champion](/source/Speedway_World_Championship). The world title was won by [Tony Rickardsson](/source/Tony_Rickardsson) of Sweden.[4] ## 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 - there was no consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th and 6th place getting 13, 7th and 8th 11, 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 for Grand Prix Main article: [2002 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification](/source/2002_Speedway_Grand_Prix_Qualification) The 2002 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below. ## 2002 event schedule and winners **Calendar** Date Grand Prix Venue Winner Result 11 May Norway Vikingskipet, Hamar Tony Rickardsson 2002 Norwegian GP[5][6] 25 May Poland Polonia Stadium, Bydgoszcz Tomasz Gollob 2002 Polish GP[7] 8 June Great Britain Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Ryan Sullivan 2002 British GP[8] 22 June Slovenia Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško Ryan Sullivan 2002 Slovenian GP[9][10] 6 July Sweden Olympiastadion, Stockholm Tony Rickardsson 2002 Swedish GP[11] 20 July Czech Republic Markéta Stadium, Prague Jason Crump 2002 Czech Republic GP[12] 31 August Scandinavia Ullevi, Gothenburg Leigh Adams 2002 Scandinavian GP[13] 14 September Europe Stadion Śląski, Chorzów Nicki Pedersen 2002 European GP[14] 28 September Denmark Vojens Speedway Center, Vojens Tony Rickardsson 2002 Danish GP[15] 26 October Australia Stadium Australia, Sydney Greg Hancock 2002 Australian GP[16] **Final 2002 standings** Pos Rider Total NOR POL GBR SVN SWE CZE SCA EUR DEN AUS 1 Tony Rickardsson 181 25 20 13 13 25 16 20 16 25 8 2 Jason Crump 162 16 16 11 11 16 25 13 20 16 18 3 Ryan Sullivan 158 20 13 25 25 11 18 11 11 13 11 4 Leigh Adams 127 13 13 16 13 13 11 25 11 7 5 5 Mikael Karlsson 122 18 7 18 11 11 7 13 18 6 13 6 Greg Hancock 122 8 4 4 8 18 20 16 6 13 25 7 Tomasz Gollob 117 7 25 11 20 8 8 5 5 20 8 8 Mark Loram 97 8 18 8 18 13 13 6 7 5 1 9 Billy Hamill 95 11 11 7 7 7 13 6 8 18 7 10 Lukáš Dryml 95 5 1 6 7 20 11 18 8 8 11 11 Rune Holta 80 1 11 5 5 6 7 11 7 11 16 12 Nicki Pedersen 73 2 4 2 5 4 6 8 25 11 6 13 Scott Nicholls 72 3 5 8 4 - 4 7 13 8 20 14 Andreas Jonsson 70 3 8 7 16 7 5 4 3 4 13 15 Todd Wiltshire 63 11 8 20 6 1 2 7 2 2 4 16 Krzysztof Cegielski 55 4 3 1 8 6 8 8 13 - 4 17 Sebastian Ułamek 39 2 6 5 4 3 3 2 5 4 5 18 Niklas Klingberg 37 5 3 3 3 5 3 4 6 3 2 19 Carl Stonehewer 30 13 5 2 1 2 4 3 - - - 20 Andy Smith 29 4 6 4 6 2 2 1 2 1 1 21 Grzegorz Walasek 25 7 2 3 3 5 5 - - - - 22 Matej Ferjan 22 1 1 1 2 1 6 1 1 2 6 23 Peter Karlsson 21 - - - - 8 - 5 3 5 - 24 Piotr Protasiewicz 18 - 7 - - 4 - - 1 6 - 25 Lee Richardson 17 - - 13 - - - - 4 - - 26 Bjarne Pedersen 10 - - - - - - 3 - 7 - 27 Steve Johnston 7 - - - - - - - - - 7 28 Lars Gunnestad 6 6 - - - - - - - - - 29 Joe Screen 6 - - 6 - - - - - - - 30 Jarosław Hampel 6 - 2 - - - - - 4 - - 31 Kaj Laukkanen 6 6 - - - - - - - - - 32 Freddie Eriksson 3 - - - - 3 - - - - - 33 Bohumil Brhel 3 - - - - - 1 - - - 2 34 Mick Poole 3 - - - - - - - - - 3 35 Jason Lyons 3 - - - - - - - - - 3 36 Ronni Pedersen 3 - - - - - - - - 3 - 37 Sándor Tihanyi 2 - - - 2 - - - - - - 38 David Ruud 2 - - - - - - 2 - - - 39 Izak Šantej 1 - - - 1 - - - - - - 40 Hans Andersen 1 - - - - - - - - 1 - 41 Aleš Dryml 1 - - - - - 1 - - - - ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["World individual final - rider index"](https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/worldfinalindex). *British Speedway*. 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Retrieved 11 July 2024.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service)) ## External links - [Official Speedway GP site](https://web.archive.org/web/20070203093546/http://www.speedwayworld.tv/) 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 [2002 Speedway Grand Prix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Speedway_Grand_Prix) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Speedway_Grand_Prix?action=history)). 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