2022 Individual Ice Racing World Championship

The 2022 FIM Ice Speedway World Championship was the 56th edition of the FIM Individual Ice Racing World Championship season.[1]

2022 Individual Ice Racing World Championship
Martin Haarahiltunen won the world title in the absence of the Russian riders.

Martin Haarahiltunen of Sweden won the World Championship series to become world champion for the first time and the first Swedish rider to win individual gold in twenty years. He won the title by virtue of overtaking the championship leader and strong favourite Johann Weber in the final round. Haarahiltunen completed a six race maximum while Weber crashed and was injured.[2][3][4][5]

The leading Russian riders competed in the first two rounds but were then banned following the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme restrictions imposed on Russian and Belarusian motorcycle riders, teams, officials, and competitions as a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[6]

In the first two rounds Russian athletes competed as a neutral competitors using the designation MFR (Motorcycle Federation of Russia), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes.[7]

Final Series
Venue Date Winners Report
1 Russia Tolyatti 12 February Nikita Bogdanov
2 Russia Tolyatti 13 February Nikita Bogdanov
3 Netherlands Heerenveen 2 April Sweden Martin Haarahiltunen
4 Netherlands Heerenveen 3 April Sweden Martin Haarahiltunen

Classification
Pos Rider Pts
1 Sweden Martin Haarahiltunen 54
2 Germany Johann Weber 51
3 Nikita Bogdanov 40
4 Czech Republic Lukáš Hutla 37
5 Austria Harald Simon 34
6 Igor Kononov 34
7 Netherlands Jasper Iwema 31
8 Dmitry Koltakov 30
9 Dmitry Khomitsevich 30
10 Germany Luca Bauer 26
11 Sweden Jimmy Hörnell 22
12 Dinar Valeev 22
13 Germany Franz Mayerbüchler 21
14 Finland Max Koivula 20
15 Sweden Ove Ledström 20
16 Ivan Khuzhin 20
17 Sweden Joakim Söderström 18
18 Czech Republic Andrej Diviš 16
19 Igor Saidullin 13
20 Norway Jo Sætre 9
21 Austria Franz Zorn 9
22 Finland Aki Ala-Riihimäki 8
23 Nikita Toloknov 6
24 Finland Henri Ahlbom 5
25 Czech Republic Jiří Wildt 4
26 Germany Benedikt Monn 2
27 Netherlands Niek Schaap 2

See also
  • 2022 Ice Speedway of Nations

References
  1. tdelafosse. "ISG2022 Home". FIM Ice Speedway World Championship. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  2. "ALL OFFICIAL RESULTS - 2022 FIM ICE SPEEDWAY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP". EIS Speedway. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  3. "Hans Weber was injured in hospital – Ice Speedway GP". SASATIMES. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  4. "Joy for super Swede and heartbreak for Weber". Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  5. "He repeats success of legend in ice speedway after 20 years". Speedway News. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  6. "FIM Suspends Russian And Belarusian Motorcycle Competitors And Competitions". Full Noise. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  7. Dunbar, Graham (17 December 2020). "Russia can't use its name and flag at the next 2 Olympics". Associated Press. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
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