During the next 5th and 6th of May in the Norwegian racecourses of Momarken and Bjerke (Oslo) will be held the Gentlemen European championship for harness racing Amateur drivers organized by the flag of the FEGAT (European federation of amateurs drivers).

The championship will be played on four scoring races for each driver, with the participation of drivers from 13 different nationalities, members of FEGAT and will be qualifying for the 2016 World Cup in Hungary where the first 6 countries will obtain a wild card for the WC2015.

The most important achievements of some of the drivers participating in the European Championship 2014 are:

Swedish Hakan B. Johansson, current European Champion (Sweden 2014) and with 231 wins in his career.

Spanish Miquel Vich Capó, former European Champion in 2012 (Czech Republic) with 159 wins in his career.

For more information you can check the official website of FEGAT www.fegat.com and don’t hesitate to contact with us to solve your doubts about the championship at fegatsecretary@gmail.com

The official list of the drivers for this 2015 FEGAT European Championship for amateur drivers in the follow next:

Country	First Name	Name	Date of birth	License since	Last year victories	This year victories	Total wins
Austria	Thomas	Royer	13.11.1978	1997	23	4	180
Belgium	Sebastien	Grisez	07.09.1990	2008	11	4	105
Czech Republic	Alle Johannes Marinus	Loman	08.09.1951	1996	24	0	148
Denmark	Svend Aage	Vindbjerg	1952	1990	3	0	50
Finland	Teemu	Keskitalo	1991	2005	5	1	10
Germany	Christoph	Pellander	09.11.1978	2004	17	1	47
Italy	Giovanni	Bechis	28.01.1951	1970	3	3	935
The Netherlands	Wim	Brouwer	05.08.1964	1989	6	1	155
Norway	Ernst Petter	Knutsen	24.09.1958	1994	0	0	34
Russia	Konstantin	Puchkov	17.12.1951	1998	3	0	172
Spain	Miquel	Vich Capó	25.10.1984	1999	4	1	159
Sweden	Håkan B.	Johansson	29.03.1972	1993	13	4	231
Switzerland	Jean-Claude	Gardaz	29.04.1966	1983	8	0	75

DRIVERS PROFILE

	THOMAS ROYER	Austrian amateur champion 2012, 2013 & 2014.3rd participation in European Championship.
	SEBASTIEN GRISEZ	Born in a family of avid trotting races. At the age of 15, attended his first race in apprentices, He has been several times in the top 3 of apprentices in Belgium and acquired his 50th victory in 2009. Then make a professional choice and opted for the profession of blacksmith-horseshoes, where has the trust of Christophe and Vincent Martens and some Belgian trainers.2014 was his first year as amateur, IHe has got the chance winning the three most beautiful Belgian races reserved for amateurs, which allowed him to win the Championship. Won 11 races in 2014 including 2 in France. Today, won 106 victories including 4 in France.
	ALLE JOHANNES MARINUS LOMAN	Born 8th September 1951 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.Bought his first trotter named Kondor as 16 years old boy.He was breeder of trotters for last 30 years and also of thoroughbreds for approx.10 years. As amateur driver won his first race with “Cruise Missille” in Scharsberg (NL) in 1989. Started and won races in Nederland, U.S.A., Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Czech and Slovak Republic. One of top points in his driver`s career was the victory in German Amateurdriver Championship in Dinslaken in 1992. Since 1996 lives in Czech Republic, where married in 2003 and where his last 2 sons of his all 6 children were born. Have Czech driving licence since 1996.He had a great success in Czech trotting sports (1997- won with his own-bred mare Cabipaan Kort Czech Derby, St.Leger and Slovak Derby, Cabipaan Kort achieved titel Trotter of the year 1997 and later also 1998 as best older trotter in Czech Republic, she broke with 15,9 the formerly track-record). In 1999 won Czech Golden Cup with his trotter Sugar Candor /Trotter of the Year 1999.Won the Czech derby in 2013 with the mare Charming Oreau(NL), Trotter of the Year 2013.Won the Czech Triple-Crown 2014 with another mare Damalia(NL), Trotter of the Year 2014. Won the Czech Amateur drivers`Championship many times and took more times part in the European and also World Amateur Championship.
	SVEND AAGE VINDBJERG
	TEEMU KESKITALO	Teemu has been involved in horse business since a he was a small child. His father owned many horses and that is why he started participating to trotting business. He started the hobby by racing trotting ponies and got full trotting amateur license immediately when it was possible.His best horse so far has been Vintage Lady, who run at V65 and V75 level. Most memorable win has been his first victory with Flaming Love. Teemu’s best driving results were last year when he won the finnish amateur championship title. At the championship finals he drove three wins, two third places and one fourth place out of seven races.
	CRISTOPH PELLANDER	Living in Cologne obatin his amateur driving licence in 2004. Driver, owner and breeder. biggest sucess: winner of the german amateur championship 2014 in Hamburg and 3rd place in amateur-ranking in 2014 with 17 wins. job: TV-Producer and Sport-Journalist.
	GIOVANNI BECHIS	More than 4000 starts in career. Won 631 amateur races at December 2014.Italian Amateur champion in 2014.Winner “Gran Premio Federnat” (the richest amateur race in the world) in 1989 (Fakir Ve).
	WIM BROUWER	Wim is born between the trotters than his father was also a passionated. Succesful owner and amateur driver. Since 2013 Wim is the President of the Dutch Amateur club. Also Wim’s wife Susan has an amateur license and both his sons Danny and Micha were competing in the pony races with Danny now having his first wins as an apprentice driver. In 2010 Wim won the Amateur Champion title in his home country and in 2012 he got the Bronze medal at the European Championship in the Czech Republic. Last year at the World Championship in Finland he won again bronze!
	ERNST PETTER KNUTSEN	34 victories and 1,7 million NOK in total earnings. Winner of the Norwegian championship 2014. Drives primarily his own horses, cold-bloded and has a few V65 and V75 victories.
	KONSTANTIN PUCHKOV
	MIQUEL VICH CAPÓ	European Champion 2012. Spanish amateur Champion 2012, 2013 & 2014.3rd participation in European Championship.
	HÅKAN B. JOHANSSON	European Champion 2014.
	JEAN CLAUDE GARDAZ	He started attending racetracks in 1975 when his father bought his first horse.After take a several internships in GROSBOIS (Paris) between 1980 and 1983 in the stables of the trainers G. Mascle – A.Meunier – G M. Dreux Ch.Bazire.Obtain his driver’s license in 1983.Best Performances:75 wins in SwitzerlandCenter-East Region champion (Lyon region) 1990FEGAT Europa Cup 4th 1991 France & 5th 1999 Hungary.10th European Championship 2007 in Salzburg -Austria.Several times in the first 3 of the Swiss amateur league.