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Slovenian speedway rider
Izak Šantej (born August 26, 1973 in Slovenia) is a Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the Speedway Grand Prix series. He is a ten times silver medal winner at Slovenian championship.[ 1]
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 and 5 times by Matej Ferjan .[ 2]
He represented Slovenia in the 2001 Speedway World Cup [ 3] 2002 Speedway World Cup .[ 4]
Izak Šantej and his wife, Hermina, have three children, Žan, Miha and Sara.[ 5]
Speedway Grand Prix results [ edit ]
permanent speedway rider
wild card , track reserve or qualified reserve
rider not classified (track reserve who did not start)
Individual World Championship (Speedway Grand Prix ):
2002 - 39th place (1 point)2003 - 35th place (4 points)2004 - 41st place (1 point)Team World Championship (Speedway World Cup ):
2000 - 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 - 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)2008 - 5th place in Semi-Final 1 (9 points)European Club Champions' Cup :
1998 - 2nd place in Group A (12 points)1999 - 2nd place in Group (10 points)2003 - 3rd place2004 - 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
2008 - 2nd 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) 
Slovenian SGP