Izak Šantej (born August 26, 1973 in Slovenia) is a Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the

Speedway Grand Prix Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The series started in 1995 replacing the previous format of a single event final. The first win ...

series.

Career

Šantej medalled 12 times at the Slovenian Individual Speedway Championship. Although he won 10 silver medals and 2 bronze medals he never became champion of Slovenia, being denied the gold medal 5 times by

Matej Žagar Matej Žagar (born 3 April 1983 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider who was won two Individual Speedway European Champion titles in 2004 and 2008. Career In 2002, he won the 2002 Individual Speedway Junior European ...

and 5 times by

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Family

Izak Šantej and his wife, Hermina, have three children, Žan, Miha and Sara.SpeedwayKrsko.si
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Speedway Grand Prix results

Career highlights

* Individual World Championship (

): ** 2002 - 39th place (1 point) ** 2003 - 35th place (4 points) ** 2004 - 41st place (1 point) * Team World Championship (

Speedway World Cup The Speedway World Cup is an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old World Team Cup which ran from 1960 until 2000. The last ed ...

): ** ''

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

- 2nd place in Quarter-Final 2 (12 points)'' ** 2001 - 12th place ''(5 points in Event 2)'' ** 2002 - 11th place ''(6 points in Event 3)'' ** 2003 - 9th place ''(4 points in Event 2)'' ** '' 2004 - 2nd place in Qualifying Round 2 (13 points)'' ** '' 2005 - 2nd place in Qualifying Round 2 (3 points)'' ** '' 2006 - 2nd place in Qualifying Round 2 (8 points)'' ** '' 2007 - 4th place in Qualifying Round 1 (8 points)'' * Individual European Championship: ** 2001 - 14th place (3 points) ** 2004 - 14th place (3 points) ** '' 2007 - 13th place in Qualifying Round 1 (4 points)'' ** ''

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

- 10th place in Semi-Final 1 (6 points)'' * European Pairs Championship: ** 2004 - 6th place (7 points) ** 2005 - 3rd place (6 points) ** 2006 - 2nd place (dit not started in Final) ** '' 2007 - 4th place in Semi-Final 1 (9 points)'' ** ''

- 5th place in Semi-Final 1 (9 points)'' * European Club Champions' Cup: ** ''

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

- 2nd place in Group A (12 points)'' ** ''

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

- 2nd place in Group (10 points)'' ** 2003 - 3rd place ** 2004 - 3rd place (13 points) ** '' 2006 - 3rd place in Semi-Final 2 (5 points)'' ** '' 2007 - 3rd place in Semi-Final 1 (14 points)'' * Individual Slovenian Championship: ** 1995 - 3rd place ** 1997 - 2nd place ** 1998 - 2nd place ** 1999 - 2nd place ** 2000 - 2nd place ** 2001 - 2nd place ** 2002 - 2nd place ** 2003 - 2nd place ** 2004 - 2nd place ** 2006 - 2nd place ** 2007 - 3rd place * Team Slovenian Championship: ** 1993 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 1995 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 1996 - Slovenian Champion (AMD Krsko) ** 1997 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 1998 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 1999 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 2000 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 2001 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 2002 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 2003 - 2nd place (AMD Krsko) ** 2004 - Slovenian Champion (AMD Krsko)

References

KSM Krosno Website - rider profile

Career

Family

Speedway Grand Prix results

Career highlights

References

See also