This year’s European Individual Ice Speedway Championship medal competition will take place in Sanok for two days. We will meet at the “Blonie” track on February 25 and 26 – the start of the first race at 2.00 pm both on Saturday and Sunday. FIM Europe, the Polish Motor Association, the Sanok City and Speedwayevents.pl invite you to the competition. Online ticket sales for this event have just started. Tickets can be purchased on the website bilety.speedwayevents.pl and on the ebilet.pl website.
Ice Speedway returned to Sanok last year successfully. After an eight-year break, races were resumed at the “Blonie” track, where the first of two final tournaments of the Individual European Championships took place, and the Sanok Mayor’s Cup was also competed. This season there will only be a fight for medals. And it’s in the classic two-day edition, and the final order will be decided by the total sum of points won in both tournaments. The champion title will be defended by Austrian Harald Simon, who a year ago overtook Luca Bauer (Italy) and Jimmy Olsen (Sweden) in the general classification. The honorary patronage over the event was taken by MEP Ryszard Czarnecki.
In Sanok, the fight for the medals of the Individual European Championships also took place in the 2008 season, later the Team World Championships and several friendly tournaments of the Sanok Cup took place. Thanks to this, this Subcarpathian city can be safely called the cradle of ice speedway in our country.
– We are very happy that this sport has returned to Sanok and it can be said that it has settled here again. I have declared my support for this project from the beginning, we will prepare the facility as best as possible for organizational requirements, after all, it is an event of the highest rank. I hope that the competition will be at least as interesting as in the previous season – said the mayor of Sanok, Tomasz Matuszewski.
The European Individual Ice Speedway Championship will be held in Poland for the fourth time in a row. Our country will traditionally be represented by Michał Knapp, who is climbing up the European hierarchy every year. In 2020 he was thirteenth, a year later twelfth and most recently eleventh overall.
– We are counting on Michał’s further progress in sports form, to whom I wish him very much. From an organizational point of view, I am glad that these competitions will be held in our country again. Sanok and ice speedway fit together, as evidenced by last year’s tournament. I hope that in February the competition will be even more interesting – said Maciej Polny from Speedwayevents.pl, the organizer of the tournament.
The competition formula remains unchanged. It provides for 20 races in the main phase, after which the two most effective competitors will immediately find a place in the final race. The fight for the remaining two will take place in the play-off, to which riders from places 3-6 after the main phase will stand. The sum of points won in two tournaments will determine the final classification, and thus this year’s medalists.
– The competition will be very even. It will spread over two days of racing and we are sure to have many surprising decisions. I’m not worried about the sports level. We have always watched great competitions in Sanok and this year will certainly be no different – admitted Piotr Szymański, chairman of the FIM Europe Track Racing Commission.
Online ticket sales for the event in Sanok have just started. Ticket packages for two days with the ice speedway on the “Błonie” track have been prepared, you can also buy tickets separately for each day. The sale takes place on the website bilety.speedwayevents.pl and on the ebilet.pl website.
Price list
Two-day packages
VIP (included in the price: parking space, high-class catering, a set of gifts, a seat with the best visibility on the grandstand, competition program)
PLN 599 – normal
PLN 349 – concessionary – persons up to 18 years of age
Tribune
PLN 99 – regular
PLN 79 – concessionary (children and youth from 7 to 18 years of age; pensioners)
Stadium Crown:
PLN 79 – regular
PLN 59 – concessionary (children and youth from 7 to 18 years of age; pensioners)
One-day tickets (Saturday or Sunday)
VIP (included in the price: parking space, high-class catering, a set of gifts, a seat with the best visibility on the grandstand, competition program)
PLN 349 – regular
PLN 199 – concessionary – persons up to 18 years of age
Tribune:
PLN 59 – regular
PLN 49 – concessionary (children and youth from 7 to 18 years of age; pensioners)
Stadium Crown:
PLN 49 – regular
PLN 39 – concessionary (children and youth from 7 to 18 years of age; pensioners)
Tickets are also sold at selected stationary points throughout the country. Their list can be found HERE. On the day of the competition, from 11.00, tickets and programs will also be available at stationary stands around the facility. Tickets are valid both in paper and electronic versions (on a mobile device).
Tickets for people with disabilities:
The organizers have prepared a pool of free tickets for disabled fans. If you are interested, please apply – by February 19 – at the following e-mail address: events@speedwayevents.pl, with the subject “Ice Speedway ticket”. The condition for receiving a free entry ticket will be sending a copy of a document proving a significant degree of disability. Free admission is granted to both the disabled person and their guardian. The number of places is limited!