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2003 Speedway Grand Prix

World speedway championship season

Field	Value
Year	2003
Dates	17 May - 4 October
Events	9
Cities	9
Country	7
per	22
wc	2
Heats	225 + 3 canceled
P1f	DEN	P1 = Nicki Pedersen
P2f	AUS	P2 = Jason Crump
P3f	SWE	P3 = Tony Rickardsson

The 2003 Speedway Grand Prix was the 58th edition of the official World Championship and the ninth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The world title was won by Nicki Pedersen of Denmark.

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: 2003 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2003 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

2003 event schedule and winners

Calendar

Date	Grand Prix	Venue	Winner	Result
17 May	EUREurope	Stadion Śląski, Chorzów	Tony Rickardsson SWE	[2003 European GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-europe)
31 May	SWESweden	Stadion Brovalla, Avesta	Ryan Sullivan AUS	[2003 Swedish GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-sweden)
14 June	GBR Great Britain	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	Nicki Pedersen DEN	[2003 British GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-great-britain)
28 June	DENDenmark	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen	Jason Crump AUS	[2003 Danish GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-denmark)
12 July	SloveniaSlovenia	Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško	Leigh Adams AUS	[2003 Slovenian GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-slovenia)
30 August	Kalmar UnionScandinavia	Ullevi, Gothenburg	Ryan Sullivan AUS	[2003 Scandinavian GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-scandinavia)
6 September	CZECzech Republic	Markéta Stadium, Prague		Jason Crump AUS	[2003 Czech Republic GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-czech-republic)
20 September	POLPoland	Polonia Stadium, Bydgoszcz	Tomasz Gollob POL	[2003 Polish GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-poland)
4 October	NORNorway	Vikingskipet, Hamar	Greg Hancock USA	[2003 Norwegian GP](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-norway)

Final 2003 standings

Pos	Rider	Total	[EUR](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-europe)	[SWE](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-sweden)	[GBR](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-great-britain)	[DEN](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-denmark)	[SVN](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-slovenia)	[SCA](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-scandinavia)	[CZE](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-czech-republic)	[POL](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-poland)	[NOR](2003-speedway-grand-prix-of-norway)
1	DEN Nicki Pedersen	152	20	8	25	16	20	7	18	18	20
2	AUS Jason Crump	144	11	5	20	25	11	16	25	20	11
3	SWE Tony Rickardsson	127	25	13	18	20	13	6	20	6	6
4	AUS Leigh Adams	126	11	18	13	11	25	18	11	11	8
5	USA Greg Hancock	121	8	16	16	18	11	13	6	8	25
6	POL Tomasz Gollob	111	16	8	3	13	16	11	8	25	11
7	ENG Scott Nicholls	102	6	2	13	11	18	20	6	13	13
8	NOR/POL Rune Holta	98	13	11	11	13	8	5	16	8	13
9	AUS Ryan Sullivan	94	6	25	7	8	8	25	5	3	7
10	SWE Andreas Jonsson	76	-	2	11	7	7	13	13	7	16
11	POL Piotr Protasiewicz	63	13	6	8	6	2	3	4	16	5
12	CZE Lukáš Dryml	58	18	20	8	7	5	-	-	-	-
13	SWE Mikael Max	52	7	13	5	1	3	8	7	5	3
14	DEN Bjarne Pedersen	51	2	7	4	5	-	3	8	4	18
15	POL Tomasz Bajerski	51	4	11	7	6	13	5	2	1	2
16	ENG Lee Richardson	45	7	1	4	-	-	8	7	11	7
17	DEN Hans Andersen	41	3	4	-	-	-	11	11	6	6
18	ENG Mark Loram	32	5	-	-	-	7	4	4	7	5
19	AUS Todd Wiltshire	30	2	5	5	2	1	6	3	3	3
20	AUS Jason Lyons	29	1	6	2	8	3	2	1	2	4
21	SWE Peter Karlsson	28	1	3	6	4	6	-	2	4	2
22	CZE Bohumil Brhel	26	5	3	1	5	-	1	5	5	1
23	DEN Ronni Pedersen	23	-	4	6	3	-	1	-	1	8
24	POL Krzysztof Cegielski	15	8	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
25	POL Jarosław Hampel	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	-
26	CZE Tomáš Topinka	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	-	-
27	ENG David Howe	8	-	-	2	-	6	-	-	-	-
28	SWE Peter Ljung	7	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-
29	RUS Roman Povazhny	6	-	-	-	2	4	-	-	-	-
30	SVN Matej Žagar	5	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-
31	NOR Lars Gunnestad	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
32	SWE David Ruud	4	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-
33	DEN Charlie Gjedde	4	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-
34	POL Sebastian Ułamek	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
35	SVN Izak Šantej	4	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-
36	CZE Aleš Dryml, Jr.	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-
37	POL Rafał Kurmański	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
38	ENG Simon Stead	3	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
39	POL Robert Dados	3	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-
40	FIN Joonas Kylmäkorpi	3	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	1
41	POL Rafał Szombierski	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
42	HUN Sándor Tihanyi	2	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
43	DEN Jesper B. Jensen	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
44	SWE Magnus Zetterström	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
45	CZE Josef Franc	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
46	ENG Chris Harris	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
47	SVN Denis Štojs	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-

References

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