Izak Šantej

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.

Career Šantej medalled 12 times at the Slovenian Individual Speedway Championship. Although he won ten silver medals and two bronze medals, he never became champion of Slovenia, being denied the gold medal five times by Matej Žagar and five times by Matej Ferjan.

Šantej represented Slovenia in the 2001 Speedway World Cup and 2002 Speedway World Cup.

Family Šantej and his wife, Hermina, have three children, Žan, Miha and Sara.

Speedway Grand Prix results

Career highlights 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 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 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)