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The fourth round of the Speedway Grand Prix series headed to Copenhagen, Denmark. Surprisingly, twelve of the sixteen riders won a heat which left the meeting open for anyone to win. Although it was the usual candidates that got to the final and eventually won the meeting.

Antonio Lindback took the first heat. Heat two was a sort of warm-up for the World Cup between Russia and Denmark; if it was a World Cup race then the points would have been tied at three each. Surprisingly Artem Laguta took the heat to double his overall tally for the season, Bjerre came second with Pedersen third in front of their home crowd, Emil Sayfutdinov came last. Janusz Kolodziej filed to start heat three as his bike packed up, this gave wildcard Mikkel Jensen an automatic point but series leader Hancock won it. Andreas Jonsson took heat four.

Chris Holder won heat five before Nicky Pedersen became the first Dane to win a heat in the meeting, with Hancock third and Gollob fourth. Jason Crump took advantage by winning heat seven with the only Brit Chris Harris taking heat eight.

Heats 9-12 were complete carnage: Heat nine ended up as a last man standing match ; Chris Harris collided with Jason Crump which left Harris excluded, following the restart Nicky Pedersen ran out of room and hit the deck which left him excluded. This left the two Aussies fighting for the win which Crump emerged victorious. Heat ten saw a monumental crash between Freddy Lindgren and Kolodziej, Lindgren looked to have landed awkwardly but all four riders were able to restart and Lindgren ended up winning the heat. After a poor start to the meeting, Thomasz Gollob took the flag in an uneventful heat eleven. But heat twelve saw Jonsson's bike fail on the opening corner and Hancock had nowhere to go but up Jonsson's bike and onto the floor. Jonsson was excluded and thankfully Hancock was fit enough to continue but Rune Holta won the restart.

Gollob won his second heat in a row in the thirteenth before Jaroslaw Hampel became the eleventh different heat winner in heat fourteen. Chris Harris won his second heat in the fifteenth before Pedersen won his second in the sixteenth.

Greg Hancock became the latest to win two heats in heat seventeen with Hampel following suit in the eighteenth. Nicky Pedersen hit the floor in the penultimate heat and was subsequently excluded before Kolodziej became winner number twelve. The final heat saw Gollob win his third heat with rival Crump in second.

The first semi-final was won by the veteran Hancock with Championship contender Crump in second, Lindgren came third with Harris in fourth. The second semi-final was won by the reigning Champion Gollob with Chris Holder making sure both Aussies made the final, Hampel came third with Nicky Pedersen ending Denmark's hopes in fourth. Gollob took the chequered flag in the final with Crump beating his compatriot to second, Hancock finished fourth.

This meant that Gollob took twenty points from the meeting with Crump on eighteen. Holder finished with fourteen, a solitary point ahead of Hancock. Hampel finished with twelve, Lindgren on nine with Harris and Pedersen taking seven points. After four rounds, Gollob now leads the series by a single point on 61 ahead of Hancock. Hampel is third on 48 with both of the Aussies on 42. Pedersen is on 37 with both Sayfutdinov and Lindgren currently on 35.