2004 SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP QUALIFICATION

The 2004 Speedway World Cup Qualification (SWC) was a two events of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the two national teams who qualify for the 2004 Speedway World Cup. According to the FIM rules the top six nations ( Sweden, Australia, Denmark, Poland, Great Britain and Czech Republic) from the 2003 Speedway World Cup were automatically qualified.

Results

Qualifying round 1
Lonigo

Qualifying round 2
Gyula

Pos.	National team	Pts.
1	Italy	54
2	Germany	47
3	Finland	31
4	Latvia	18

Pos.	National team	Pts.
1	Hungary	51
2	Slovenia	47
3	Russia	42
4	Austria	10

Heat details

Lonigo (1)

Qualifying round 1^[1]
10 July 2004
Lonigo, Santa Marina Stadium
Referee: ?

Placing	Team / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
1	Italy	54	2	3	6	7	10	12	15	15	18	21	22	24	25	28	31	32	33	36	38	40	42	45	48	51	54
	(1) Paolo Salvatelli	11	2								3				1							2		3
	(2) Armando Castagna	11		1								3				3		1							3
	(3) Emiliano Sanchez	12			3			2									3		1							3
	(4) Simone Terenzani	11				1			3				1							3							3
	(5) Andrea Maida	9					3			0				2							2		2

2	Germany	47	3	6	7	9	10	11	13	16	17	18	21	24	27	29	31	33	35	36	39	42	43	43	43	45	47
	(1) Mirko Wolter	10	3						2								2				3				0
	(2) Martin Smolinski	14		3						3			3									3				2
	(3) Matthias Schultz	9			1						1			3				2									2
	(4) Christian Hefenbrock	9				2						1			3				2				1
	(5) Thomas Stange	5					1	1								2				1				F
Placing	Team / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
3	Finland	31	1	3	3	3	5	8	9	10	12	12	14	14	16	16	16	19	22	24	24	24	27	29	31	31	31
	(1) Kai Laukkanen	15	1					3					2					3	3				3
	(2) Tero Aarnio	5		2					1					0					-					2
	(3) Kauko Nieminen	7			N					1					2					2					2
	(4) Tomi Reima	2				X					2					0					T					0
	(5) Juha Hautamäki	2					2					0					E					0					0

4	Latvia	18	0	0	2	5	5	5	5	7	7	9	9	10	10	11	12	12	12	12	13	14	14	15	16	17	18
	(1) Kasts Poudzuks	4	0							2						1			0								1
	(2) Leonid Paura	1		0							0						1			F			0
	(3) Nikolaj Kokin	6			2							2	0								1			1
	(4) Andrejs Koroļevs	6				3		0						1								1			1
	(5) Alexander Biznia	1					0		0						0			E								1
Placing	Team / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25

M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell

Helmet colours was permanent for each teams (Red, Blue, White and Yellow/Black). Colours in diagrams means gate positions:
gate A – inside	gate B	gate C	gate D – outside

Gyula (2)

Qualifying round 2^[2]
10 July 2004
Christián László Municipal Sports Complex, Gyula

Placing	Team / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
1	Hungary	51	2	2	5	7	10	11	14	17	19	22	24	27	28	31	32	33	36	37	40	42	42	44	46	48	51
	(1) Sándor Tihanyi	14	2							3						3			3								3
	(2) Szabolcs Vida	4		0							2						1			1			0
	(3) Norbert Magosi	13			3							3	2								3			2
	(4) Attila Stefani	10				2		1						3								2			2
	(5) Laszlo Szatmari	10					3		3						1			1								2

2	Slovenia	47	3	6	8	9	10	13	13	15	18	20	20	20	23	25	28	28	28	31	33	36	38	41	42	45	47
	(1) Matej Žagar	18	3								3				3					3		3		3
	(2) Jernej Kolenko	10		3								2				2		0			2				1
	(3) Izak Šantej	13			2			3									3		0				2			3
	(4) Primoz Legan	3				1			0				0							-							2
	(5) Ales Kraljic	3					1			2				0							-		-
Placing	Team / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
3	Russia	42	1	2	3	6	8	10	11	12	13	14	17	19	21	22	24	27	29	31	32	33	36	37	40	41	42
	(1) Denis Saifutdinov	5	1						1								2				1				-
	(2) Roman Ivanov	10		1						1			3									1			3	1
	(3) Victor Golubovsky	8			1						1			2				3									1
	(4) Ilja Bondarenko	11				3						1			2				2				3
	(5) Sergey Eroshin	8					2	2								1				2				1

4	Austria	10	0	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	5	6	6	6	6	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10
	(1) Fritz Wallner	4	0					0					1					2					1
	(2) Manuel Hauzinger	6		2					2					1					1					0
	(3) Norbert Grogletz	0			0					0					0					0					0
	(4) Mario Ozelt	0				0					0					0					0					0
	(5) Oliver Ozelt	0					0					0					0					0					0
Placing	Team / Rider Name	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25

M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell

Helmet colours was permanent for each teams (Red, Blue, White and Yellow/Black). Colours in diagrams means gate positions:
gate A – inside	gate B	gate C	gate D – outside

References

^ world.speedway.org Archived 2004-10-12 at the Wayback Machine; Retrieved on 2008-10-27
^ world.speedway.org Archived 2004-10-12 at the Wayback Machine; Retrieved on 2008-10-27

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Lonigo (1)

Gyula (2)

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