2009 Motocross des Nations

Last updated January 15, 2025

The 2009 Motocross des Nations took place after the 2009 FIM Motocross World Championship season, on October 4, 2009 in Franciacorta, Italy.

Entry list

All entries taken from the official MX Nations site.^[1]

	Country	Nr	Rider	Class	Motorcycle	Team manager
1	United States	1	Ryan Dungey	MX1	Suzuki 450	Roger de Coster
		2	Jake Weimer	MX2	Kawasaki 250
		3	Ivan Tedesco	OPEN	Honda 450
2	France	4	Steven Frossard	MX1	Kawasaki 450	Olivier Robert
		5	Marvin Musquin	MX2	KTM 250
		6	Gautier Paulin	OPEN	Kawasaki 450
3	Belgium	7	Clément Desalle	MX1	Honda 450	Joël Smets
		8	Joël Roelants	MX2	KTM 250
		9	Steve Ramon	OPEN	Suzuki 450
4	Great Britain	10	Billy MacKenzie	MX1	Honda 450	TBA
		11	Tommy Searle	MX2	KTM 250
		12	Shaun Simpson	OPEN	KTM 450
5	Italy	13	Antonio Cairoli	MX1	Yamaha 450	Andrea Bartolini
		14	Davide Guarneri	MX2	Yamaha 250
		15	David Philippaerts	OPEN	Yamaha 450
6	Australia	16	Chad Reed	MX1	Suzuki	Gary Benn
		17	Brett Metcalfe	MX2	Honda 250
		18	Michael Byrne	OPEN	Suzuki 450
7	Spain	19	Jonathan Barragan	MX1	KTM 450	Josep Alonso
		20	Christian Oliva	MX2	Yamaha 250
		21	Carlos Campano Jiminez	OPEN	Yamaha 450
8	New Zealand	22	Joshua Coppins	MX1	Yamaha 450	Michael Mcleod
		23	Michael Phillips	MX2	Honda 250
		24	Scott Columb	OPEN	Suzuki 450
9	Switzerland	25	Julien Bill	MX1	Aprilia 450	Marc Ristori
		26	Arnaud Tonus	MX2	KTM 250
		27	Grégory Wicht	OPEN	Honda 450
10	Germany	28	Daniel Siegl	MX1	Suzuki 450	Olaf Noack
		29	Ken Roczen	MX2	Suzuki 250
		30	Maximilian Nagl	OPEN	KTM 450
11	Finland	31	Antti Pyrhönen	MX1	Honda 450	Jussi-Pekka Vehvilainen
		32	Harri Kullas	MX2	KTM 250
		33	Eero Remes	OPEN	KTM 250
12	Estonia	34	Aigar Leok	MX1	TM 450	Mart Lajal
		35	Gert Krestinov	MX2	KTM 250
		36	Tanel Leok	OPEN	Yamaha 450
13	Canada	37	Tyler Medaglia	MX1	Suzuki 450	Carl Bastedo
		38	Dean Wilson	MX2	Kawasaki 250
		39	Mitchell Cooke	OPEN	Kawasaki 450
14	Brazil	40	Wellington Garcia	MX1	Honda 450	Wilson Yasuda
		41	Swian Zanoni	MX2	Honda 250
		42	António Balbi Junior	OPEN	Honda 450
15	South Africa	43	Gareth Swanepoel	MX1	Kawasaki 450	TBA
		44	Tyla Rattray	MX2	Kawasaki 250
		45	Neville Bradshaw	OPEN	Honda 450
16	Latvia	46	Ivo Šteinbergs	MX1	Honda 450	Jānis Vilders
		47	Matīss Karro	MX2	Suzuki 250
		48	Lauris Freibergs	OPEN	Yamaha 450
17	Netherlands	52	Mike Kras	MX1	KTM 450	Leon Giesbers
		53	Jeffrey Herlings	MX2	KTM 250
		54	Herjan Brakke	OPEN	Honda 250
18	Puerto Rico	55	Gino Aponte	MX1	Yamaha 450	Gabriel Catala
		56	Benjamin Evans	MX2	Yamaha 250
		57	Juan Font	OPEN	Yamaha 250
19	Denmark	58	Nicolai Hansen	MX1	Suzuki 450	Brian Kjær Jørgensen
		59	Nikolaj Larsen	MX2	Suzuki 250
		60	Kasper Jensen	OPEN	Honda 250
20	Ireland	61	Gordon Crockard	MX1	Honda 450	Stephen Russel
		62	Martin Barr	MX2	Suzuki 250
		63	Graeme Irwin	OPEN	KTM 250
21	Russia	64	Evgeny Bobryshev	MX1	Yamaha 450	Gennady Yargin
		65	Alexander Tonkov	MX2	Suzuki 250
		66	Dmitry Parshin	OPEN	Yamaha 450
22	Sweden	67	Andreas Hultman	MX1	Honda 450	Patrik Olsson
		68	Filip Thuresson	MX2	Suzuki 250
		69	Tom Söderström	OPEN	Kawasaki 450
23	Portugal	70	Luís Correia	MX1	Yamaha 450	Pedro Castro
		71	Ruí Gonçalves	MX2	KTM 250
		72	Hugo Basuala	OPEN	Suzuki 450
24	Czech Republic	73	Martin Michek	MX1	TM 450	Jan Froňek
		74	Petř Šmitka	MX2	KTM 250
		75	Filip Neugebauer	OPEN	Kawasaki 450
25	Slovenia	76	Matevz Irt	MX1	Honda 450	Roman Jelen
		77	Klemen Gerčar	MX2	Yamaha 250
		78	Jernej Irt	OPEN	Husqvarna 250
26	Norway	79	Jan Olav Lunewski	MX1	Suzuki 450	Stian Orneberg
		80	Remi Nyegård	MX2	Honda 250
		81	Even Heibye	OPEN	Honda 250
27	Slovakia	85	Martin Kohut	MX1	KTM 450	Daniel Hirtel
		86	Jozef Kulhavy	MX2	Honda 250
		87	Tomáš Bučenec	OPEN	KTM 450
28	Iceland	88	Aron Ómarsson	MX1	Kawasaki 450	Stefan Gunnarsson
		89	Viktor Gudbergsson	MX2	Suzuki 250
		90	Gunnlaugur Karlsson	OPEN	KTM 505
29	Mongolia	94	Khadbaatar Temuujin	MX1	Suzuki 450	Dashdondog Ochirsukh
		95	Broenebileg Khaliunbold	MX2	Suzuki 250
		96	Boldbaataar Ganod	OPEN	Suzuki 250
30	Austria	101	Günter Schmidinger	MX1	Honda 450	Mario Mittermaier
		102	Peter Reitbauer	MX2	Honda 250
		103	Michael Staufer	OPEN	KTM 450
31	Cyprus	104	Savva Savvas	MX1	Yamaha 450	Antonis Siaptanis
		105	Alexandros Nikolettis	MX2	Kawasaki 250
		106	Zanetos Koumasis	OPEN	Honda 450
32	Croatia	113	Nenad Šipek	MX1	Yamaha 450	Ivan Lafter
		114	Marko Leljak	MX2	KTM 250
		115	Danijel Božić	OPEN	KTM 480
33	Thailand	116	Thanarat Penjan	MX1	Yamaha 450	Jan Postema
		117	Samart Tumasing	MX2	Honda 250
		118	Wattana Kanlaya	OPEN	Suzuki 450
34	Hungary	119	János Borka	MX1	Kawasaki 450	Ferenc Déczi
		120	Balázs Déczi	MX2	Suzuki 250
		121	Bence Szvodoba	OPEN	KTM 450
35	Greece	122	Panagiotis Kouzis	MX1	Yamaha 450	Catherine Welch
		123	George Iliopoulos	MX2	KTM 250
		124	Athanasios Avgeris	OPEN	KTM 250
36	Ukraine ¹	125	Sergiy Onypchenko	MX1	Honda 450	Sergiy Paschinskiy

		126	Roman Morozov	MX2	KTM 250
127	Mykola Paschynskyi	OPEN	KTM 505
37	Lithuania	128	Raimund Machrov	MX1	Yamaha 450	Saulius Stankus
		129	Nerijus Rukštela	MX2	Suzuki 250
		130	Radoslav Baranovskij	OPEN	Yamaha 450

Note 1 : Ukraine did not participate.

Qualifying

Qualifyied countries

Pos	Country	Points
1	Italy	2
2	France	3
3	Belgium	5
4	United Kingdom	6
5	Australia	7
6	United States	10
7	South Africa	11
8	New Zealand	15
9	Spain	16
10	Estonia	17
11	Germany	19
12	Portugal	20
13	Switzerland	24
14	Finland	25
15	Netherlands	25
16	Sweden	29
17	Latvia	29
18	Denmark	30
19	Brazil	30

Countries admitted to the B Final

Pos	Country	Points
20	Canada	31
21	Ireland	32
22	Russia	32
23	Slovenia	40
24	Slovakia	40
25	Austria	41
26	Puerto Rico	45
27	Norway	49
28	Czech Republic	50
29	Hungary	53
30	Croatia	54
31	Iceland	56
32	Greece	60

Non-qualifyied countries

Pos	Country	Points
33	Mongolia	62
34	Thailand	63
35	Lithuania	65
36	Cyprus	70

B Final

Pos	Country	Points
1	Ireland ¹	11
2	Czech Republic	14
3	Russia	16
4	Austria	19
5	Slovakia	22
6	Norway	24
7	Puerto Rico	32
8	Canada	34
9	Slovenia	39
10	Croatia	40
11	Iceland	46
12	Hungary	49
13	Greece	53

Note 1 : Ireland won the B final which meant they qualified for the main races.

Race

Pos	Country	Riders	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Points
1	United States	Ryan Dungey	3		1	22
		Jake Weimer	8	(25)
		Ivan Tedesco		3	7
2	France	Steven Frossard	14		5	30
		Marvin Musquin	5	5
		Gautier Paulin		1	(37)
3	Belgium	Clement Desalle	4		(27)	39
		Joel Roelants	15	11
		Steve Ramon		7	2
4	Germany	Daniel Siegl	(36)		23	55
		Ken Roczen	10	8
		Maximilian Nagl		6	8
5	Great Britain	Billy Mackenzie	11		14	55
		Tommy Searle	7	(17)
		Shaun Simpson		13	10
6	Italy	Antonio Cairoli	1		(38)	59
		Davide Guarneri	16	37
		David Philippaerts		2	3
7	Australia	Chad Reed	2		9	73
		Brett Metcalfe	17	9
		Michael Byrne		(38)	36
8	Estonia	Aigar Leok	22		13	78
		Gert Krestinov	28	(31)
		Tanel Leok		4	11
9	South Africa	Gareth Swanepoel	9		30	84
		Tyla Rattray	13	10
		Neville Bradshaw		22	(35)
10	Switzerland	Julien Bill	21		12	88
		Arnaud Tonus	23	14
		Gregory Wicht		(35)	27
11	New Zealand	Joshua Coppins	6		6	89
		Michael Phillips	(35)	32
		Scott Columb		12	33
12	Spain	Jonathan Barragan	12		4	92
		Cristian Oliva	(34)	33
		Carlos Campano		15	28
13	Portugal	Luis Correia	(38)		15	112
		Rui Concalves	19	24
		Hugo Basaula		29	25
14	Brazil	Wellington Garcia	33		24	122
		Swian Zanoni	30	(34)
		Antonio Balbi		16	19
15	Denmark	Nicolai Hansen	(32)		21	123
		Nikolaj Larsen	26	21
		Kasper Jensen		26	29
16	Ireland	126
17	Latvia	130
18	Netherlands	133
19	Sweden	143
20	Finland	92

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