Shadrinsk (Kurgan oblast)
In Moscow on 15-16 February with the support of Ural mining and metallurgical company hosted the final of the No. 3 personal world championship ice racing Ice Speedway Gladiators 2020.
this season the fight for the title of the strongest racer in the world are 16 athletes from Russia, Austria, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. Russia at all stages of the chirp-2020 are: Daniil Ivanov, Dmitry Khomitsevich, Dinar Valeev, Igor Kononov, driver of the team "torpedo-SHAAZ" Dmitry Koltakov. For Austria are Harald Simon, Franz Zorn and Charlie Ebner, for Sweden - Martin Haarahiltunen, Ove Lidstrom, Stefan Svensson and Niclas Svensson, for Germany - Hans Weber, the Netherlands – Bart Soap and Jasper Iwema. The judge also international. The President of the jury FIM Yoni Seppanen came from Finland, the main judge of competitions Alexander Latosinski from Ukraine.
shadrinskiy Surprise for fans was the participation in the finals of the No. 3 athlete club "torpedo-SHAAZ" Constantine Kolenkina. As the winner of the wild card he played not for score, but was able to be sharpen the struggle on the ice tracks.
After the two previous finals held in Almaty and Togliatti, the standings were headed by Daniil Ivanov, Dmitry Khomitsevich and Dinar Valeev. In Shadrinsk in the situation intervened Igor Kononov, who managed to become the winner of the second race day, but on the position in the standings is not povliyalo.
Before the European finals of the world Cup Ivanov, Khomitsevich and Valeev retain the lead, in fourth position Kononov closes the five of the strongest Dmitry Koltakov.
Note that thanks to financial support from UMMC world-class competition Shadrinsk took the fourth consecutive year. In 2017 here for the first time, passed stages of the personal world championship, in 2018 - team championship of the world in 2019 and 2020, on the ice track of a stadium "torpedo", the newly competed the finalists of the personal championship.
During the two days of competition in Shadrinsk were attended by over five thousand people. Summing up, the President of the jury Yoni Seppanen gave a high assessment to the level of the Shadrinsk to important competitions and said that the international motorcycle Federation (FIM) extended TRANS-Ural city of license to conduct international competitions for another three years.
of Shadrinsk participants of the competition will travel to Germany, where on March 14-15 will be the final No. 4 and the name of the new champion of ice racing will be known on April 5 after the final # 5 in the Dutch Heerenveen.
