Poland Was Victorious In Denmark

[Anders]

Surprised no-one has posted the result, so here it goes:

 

European U19 Team Championsip Final

at Holsted Speedway Center, Denmark

Sunday August 23rd 2009

 

For most of the meeting at Holsted Speedway Center, it looked like a repeat of Sweden's victory in the final in Rawicz (Poland) last year, but as the dust had settled, Poland stood there as winners. Sweden lead most of the meeting, almost all the way from heat 4 and forward. The depth of the Swedish was unmatched by all other teams, but as Poland's coach Marek Cieslak coached his reserve Przemyslaw Pawlicki hard towards the end, they were able to catch up with Sweden. Also, with some luck of the draw, the Polish riders stood right inside of the Swedish counterparts in three of the four nominated heats.

 

Sweden still had a one point lead with two heats to go, but Ludvig Lindgren was harshly excluded in heat 19 as he fell exiting the second bend after Rene Bach had pushed on him twice on bends one/two, before Lindgren came off. There were obviously contact between the two, Lindgren fell but was on the wrong side of the exclusion against the wild Dane. In the re-run of that heat, Dawid Lampart was able to score two points to give the Polish side the lead for the first time since heat 3.

 

Simon Gustafsson was forced to place himself ahead of Maciej Janowski in heat 20 to force a run-off for the win, but Janowski was untrouble in that heat and won it for Poland, despite it being Sweden that were in charge for most of the meeting with the strength in depth. The top riders on the day belonged to Poland though, which won them the gold medals.

 

Host nation Denmark came third, without being particulary close to either the silver medal or fourth place Czech Republic. Surely the Czechs were ahead early on, but anyway, it felt like a question of time before the Danes should pull away. Denmark started the meeting with a touch/tape exclusion for the talented Michael Jepsen Jensen, and they had to work from the behind right from the start.

 

For the Czech Republic, winner of the semifinal in Moorwinkelsdamm more than a month ago, only Michael Hadek produced consistent opposition to the other nations throughout the meeting, just as the scorechart suggest.

 

POLAND 40

9. Maciej Janowski ( 3 3 1 3 2 3 ) = 15 (6)

10. Slawomir Musielak ( 0 N 1 N N ) = 1 (2)

11. Patryk Dudek ( 1 1 N N N ) = 2 (2)

12. Dawid Lampart ( 3 2 Fx N 2 ) = 7 (4)

19. Przemyslaw Pawlicki ( 1 3 3 3 2 3 ) = 15 (6)

TM. Marek Cieslak

 

SWEDEN 38

13. Simon Gustafsson ( 2 3 2 3 2 ) = 12 (5)

14. Anton Rosen ( 2 N 3 1 N ) = 6 (3)

15. Ludvig Lindgren ( 2 2 3 N Fx ) = 7 (4)

16. Linus Sundström ( N 2 1 2 N ) = 5 (3)

20. Dennis Andersson ( 2 3 1 1 1 ) = 8 (5)

TM. Daniel Nelson

 

DENMARK 27

5. Michael Jepsen Jensen ( T 3 3 2 1 1 ) = 10 (6)

6. Rene Bach ( 3 Fx 2 2 0 3 ) = 10 (6)

7. Simon Nielsen ( 1 0 N N N ) = 1 (2)

8. Patrick Bjerregaard ( 0 0 N N N ) = 0 (2)

18. Michael Palm Toft ( 2 0 2 2 ) = 6 (4)

TM. Jan Staechmann

 

CZECH REPUBLIC 15

1. Michael Hadek ( 3 2 1 0 3 0 ) = 9 (6)

2. Pavel Pucko ( 1 1 T 0 N ) = 2 (4)

3. Michal Dudek ( 0 0 N N N ) = 0 (2)

4. Jan Holub ( 1 1 0 0 0 ) = 2 (5)

17. Vaclav Milik ( 0 1 1 ) = 2 (3)

TM. Milan Spinka

 

1 [59.0]: Lampart, Rosén, Holub, Jensen (T)

2 [58.6]: Bach, Gustafsson, P Dudek, M Dudek

3 [58.9]: Janowski, Lindgren, Pucko, Bjerregaard

4 [59.9]: Hadek, Andersson (for Sundström), Nielsen, Musielak

 

5 [59.0]: Janowski, Sundström, Holub, Bach (Fx)

6 [59.2]: Jensen, Lindgren, Pawlicki (for Musielak), M Dudek

7 [59.6]: Gustafsson, Lampart, Pucko, Nielsen

8 [59.9]: Andersson (for Rosén), Hadek, P Dudek, Bjerregaard

 

9 [59.5]: Jensen (for Bjerregaard), Gustafsson, Musielak, Holub

10 [58.9]: Rosén, Palm Toft (for Nielsen), Janowski, Milik (for M Dudek)

11 [59.7]: Pawlicki (for P Dudek), Jensen, Sundström, Pucko (T)

12 [60.2]: Lindgren, Bach, Hadek, Lampart (Fx)

 

13 [59.4]: Janowski (for Lampart), Sundström, Milik (for M Dudek), Palm Toft (for Bjerregaard)

14 [59.8]: Pawlicki (for P Dudek), Palm Toft (for Nielsen), Andersson (for Lindgren), Holub

15 [58.9]: Pawlicki (for Musielak), Bach, Rosén, Pucko

16 [59.6]: Gustafsson, Janowski, Jensen, Hadek

 

17 [59.9]: Hadek (for M Dudek), Pawlicki (for Musielak), Andersson (for Sundström), Bach (for Bjerregaard)

18 [59.8]: Pawlicki (for P Dudek), Palm Toft (for Nielsen), Andersson (for Rosén), Holub

19 [59.9]: Bach, Lampart, Milik (for Pucko), Lindgren (Fx)

20 [?]: Janowski, Gustafsson, Jensen, Hadek

 

Crowd: 514 persons

 

BTW, it was great meeting up with Doug (iris123). I hope the photos turned out great! (Then you could post a link )

Until next time, cheers mate! (to quote the Aussies)

[iris123]

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Great to meet up with you too Anders

 

And i thought Bach was at fault in that one as well.That is the way it goes sometimes.Like you say,Denmark were always struggling after LiGlad broke the tapes.Bjerregaard had a bad crash the day before.Wrecked his bike and hurt his neck in the process,but Palm Toft surprised me with some good rides.As i said to Jan.....next year with Mikkel M,Mikkel B and Lasse Bjerre should be better for the Danes

Edited August 24, 2009 by iris123