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2002 Speedway Grand Prix

World speedway championship season

Field	Value
Year	2002
Dates	11 May - 26 October
Events	10
Cities	10
Country	8
per	22	wc=2	tr=
Heats	250
P1f	SWE	P1 =Tony Rickardsson
P2f	AUS	P2 =Jason Crump
P3f	AUS	P3 =Ryan Sullivan

The 2002 Speedway Grand Prix was the 57th edition of the official World Championship and the eighth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The world title was won by Tony Rickardsson of Sweden.

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

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	SWE Tony Rickardsson	[2002 Norwegian GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-norway)
25 May	Poland	Polonia Stadium, Bydgoszcz	POL Tomasz Gollob	[2002 Polish GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-poland)
8 June	Great Britain	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	AUS Ryan Sullivan	[2002 British GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-great-britain)
22 June	Slovenia	Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško	AUS Ryan Sullivan	[2002 Slovenian GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-slovenia)
6 July	Sweden	Olympiastadion, Stockholm	SWE Tony Rickardsson	[2002 Swedish GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-sweden)
20 July	Czech Republic	Markéta Stadium, Prague	AUS Jason Crump	[2002 Czech Republic GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-czech-republic)
31 August	Scandinavia	Ullevi, Gothenburg	AUS Leigh Adams	[2002 Scandinavian GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-scandinavia)
14 September	Europe	Stadion Śląski, Chorzów	DEN Nicki Pedersen	[2002 European GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-europe)
28 September	Denmark	Vojens Speedway Center, Vojens	SWE Tony Rickardsson	[2002 Danish GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-denmark)
26 October	Australia	Stadium Australia, Sydney	USA Greg Hancock	[2002 Australian GP](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-australia)

Final 2002 standings

Pos	Rider	Total	[NOR](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-norway)	[POL](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-poland)	[GBR](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-great-britain)	[SVN](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-slovenia)	[SWE](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-sweden)	[CZE](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-czech-republic)	[SCA](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-scandinavia)	[EUR](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-europe)	[DEN](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-denmark)	[AUS](2002-speedway-grand-prix-of-australia)
1	SWE Tony Rickardsson	181	25	20	13	13	25	16	20	16	25	8
2	AUS Jason Crump	162	16	16	11	11	16	25	13	20	16	18
3	AUS Ryan Sullivan	158	20	13	25	25	11	18	11	11	13	11
4	AUS Leigh Adams	127	13	13	16	13	13	11	25	11	7	5
5	SWE Mikael Karlsson	122	18	7	18	11	11	7	13	18	6	13
6	USA Greg Hancock	122	8	4	4	8	18	20	16	6	13	25
7	POL Tomasz Gollob	117	7	25	11	20	8	8	5	5	20	8
8	GBR Mark Loram	97	8	18	8	18	13	13	6	7	5	1
9	USA Billy Hamill	95	11	11	7	7	7	13	6	8	18	7
10	CZE Lukáš Dryml	95	5	1	6	7	20	11	18	8	8	11
11	NOR Rune Holta	80	1	11	5	5	6	7	11	7	11	16
12	DEN Nicki Pedersen	73	2	4	2	5	4	6	8	25	11	6
13	GBR Scott Nicholls	72	3	5	8	4	-	4	7	13	8	20
14	SWE Andreas Jonsson	70	3	8	7	16	7	5	4	3	4	13
15	AUS Todd Wiltshire	63	11	8	20	6	1	2	7	2	2	4
16	POL Krzysztof Cegielski	55	4	3	1	8	6	8	8	13	-	4
17	POL Sebastian Ułamek	39	2	6	5	4	3	3	2	5	4	5
18	SWE Niklas Klingberg	37	5	3	3	3	5	3	4	6	3	2
19	GBR Carl Stonehewer	30	13	5	2	1	2	4	3	-	-	-
20	GBR Andy Smith	29	4	6	4	6	2	2	1	2	1	1
21	POL Grzegorz Walasek	25	7	2	3	3	5	5	-	-	-	-
22	SLO Matej Ferjan	22	1	1	1	2	1	6	1	1	2	6
23	SWE Peter Karlsson	21	-	-	-	-	8	-	5	3	5	-
24	POL Piotr Protasiewicz	18	-	7	-	-	4	-	-	1	6	-
25	GBR Lee Richardson	17	-	-	13	-	-	-	-	4	-	-
26	DEN Bjarne Pedersen	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	7	-
27	AUS Steve Johnston	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
28	NOR Lars Gunnestad	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
29	GBR Joe Screen	6	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
30	POL Jarosław Hampel	6	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-
31	FIN Kaj Laukkanen	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
32	SWE Freddie Eriksson	3	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-
33	CZE Bohumil Brhel	3	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	2
34	AUS Mick Poole	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
35	AUS Jason Lyons	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
36	DEN Ronni Pedersen	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-
37	HUN Sándor Tihanyi	2	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
38	SWE David Ruud	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-
39	SVN Izak Šantej	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
40	DEN Hans Andersen	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
41	CZE Aleš Dryml	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-

References

"World individual final - rider index".
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"Speedway riders, history and results".
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