tomazpozrl 8 Posted April 11, 2004 (edited) Reading's star and Slovenian champion Matej Zagar won 1st round of 2004 Slovenian championship. He was only defeated once in the whole meeting - slovenian vice champion Izak Santej beat him in heat 13. Second place went to former King's Lynn and Oxford rider Jernej Kolenko. This is one the best results for Jernej in slovenian championship rounds and after 3 years he finally managed to beat Santej in the A final. Izak Santej was having some problems with his eyes, but still finished in pretty solid 3rd place. Surprise of the day was Primoz Legan who qualified for A final (only for the 2nd time in his career) and finished in fourth place. As it has been practice for the last few seasons, first match of the season is always full of crashes. Today we saw 2 pretty nasty ones. In heat 3 15 year old Matic Voldrih (riding in 1st official meeting of his career) made an excellent gate and was leading for 3 laps, but at one moment he was just going to fast and he hit the fence pretty hard. The outcome - broken collarbone. And we saw even more horrifying crash in heat 9. Stanko Glavan was riding in 2nd place behind Ales Kraljic. As Glavan wanted to catch Kraljic, he just wanted to much and totally overcooked it in 2nd bend of lap 2. He almost stopped, but then Ivan Vargek came from behind and hit Glavan, who was then catapulted straight into the fence with full speed. Uff, one of the nastiest crash I've seen in recent years. Glavan was then taken to hospital, but miraculously first reports from the hospital stated that he didn't sustained any major injuries and should recover very soon. Here are full details : Qualifying heats: Heat 1: Kolenko, Stojs, Legan, Kraljic Heat 2: Santej, Mikolajczak, Pavlic, Secnik F Heat 3: Vargek, Strahija, Sobocan F, Voldrih Fx Heat 4: Zagar, Stefani, Glavan, Oto *Stefani gated and Zagar had to work hard from behind to pass Stefani on the finish line. Heat 5: Mikolajczak, Kraljic, Oto, Strahija Heat 6: Zagar, Legan, Secnik *Zagar from the gates Heat 7: Kolenko, Stefani, Santej, Vargek Heat 8: Glavan, Stojs, Pavlic, Sobocan Ef Heat 9: Kraljic, Vargek, Secnik, Glavan F Heat 10:Mikolajczak, Legan, Stefani Heat 11:Zagar, Pavlic, Kolenko, Strahija *Zagar from the gates, but 14 years old croatian sensation Jura Pavlic was following him closely all 4 laps. Heat 12:Santej, Oto, Stojs Ef Heat 13:Santej, Zagar, Kraljic *Santej gated and again Zagar was all over his back wheel, but he just couldn't find enough room to pass him Heat 14:Legan, Oto, Pavlic Ef Heat 15:Kolenko, Mikolajczak Ef Heat 16:Stojs, Stefani, Secnik, Strahija Heat 17:Pavlic, Kraljic, Stefani Heat 18:Santej, Legan, Strahija Heat 19:Kolenko, Oto, Secnik Heat 20:Zagar, Stojs, Mikolajczak, Vargek *Zagar from the gates Standings after 20 heats: 1. (14) Matej Zagar (Ljubljana) 3,3,3,2,3 14 2. (3) Jernej Kolenko (Ljubljana) 3,3,1,3,3 13 3. (7) Izak Santej (Krsko) 3,1,3,3,3 13 4. (2) Primoz Legan (Ljubljana) 1,2,2,3,2 10 5. (4) Denis Stojs (Krsko) 2,2,Ef,3,2 9 6. (5) Robert Mikolajczak (Poland) 2,3,3,Ef,1 9 7. (1) Ales Kraljic (Ljubljana) 0,2,3,1,2 8 8. (15) Atila Stefani (Hungary) 2,2,1,2,1 8 9. (13) Marko Oto (Croatia) 0,1,2,2,2 7 10.(8) Jurica Pavlic (Croatia) 1,1,2,Ef,3 7 11.(11) Ivan Vargek (Croatia) 3,0,2,1,0 6 12.(6) Matic Secnik (Ljubljana) F,1,1,1,1 4 13.(16) Stanko Glavan (Krsko) 1,3,F,-,- 4 14.(9) Zoran Strahija (Croatia) 2,0,0,0,1 3 15.(12) Goran Sobocan (Lendava) F,Ef,-,-,- 0 16.(10) Matic Voldrih (Ljubljana) Fx,-,-,-,- 0 Final heats : D FINAL A: Glavan N B: Strahija 1st C: Sobocan N D: Voldrih N C FINAL A: Oto 4th B: Pavlic 1st C: Vargek 2nd D: Secnik 3rd B FINAL A: Stojs 2nd B: Mikolajczak 3rd C: Kraljic 4th D: Stefani 1st A FINAL A: Zagar 1st B: Kolenko 2nd C: Legan 4th D: Santej 3rd Edited April 14, 2004 by tomazpozrl Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffster 60 Posted April 12, 2004 Why was Matej Ferjan not in the meeting, Tomas ? At first I though it was because he races on a Hungarian licence, but then I saw tht Atila Stefani rode in the meeting, as well as some Croats.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tomazpozrl 8 Posted April 12, 2004 Jeffster, as far as I know, Ferjan doesn't want to have any connection with slovenian speedway. After heavy dispute with his club from Ljubljana, he decided not to ride in Slovenia again. In fact both other clubs Krsko and Lendava offered him a place in their lineups, but he refused that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Crazy Munchie 0 Posted April 13, 2004 Matej Ferjan even went as far as taking out an Australian license to cut ties with the Slovenian authorities. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Queenie 0 Posted April 13, 2004 Well Done Matej Thanks for the info Tomaz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
