2016 Speedway Under-21 World Championship

World Under-21 Championship
Max Fricke
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The 2016 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 40th edition of the FIM World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. ^{[1] [2]}

It was staged over three rounds, at King's Lynn, Pardubice and Gdańsk. ^[3]

The championship was won by triple Australian Under-21 Champion Max Fricke who become Australia's fifth Under-21 World Champion. Fricke's consistent run over the series in which he finished 3rd in the first two rounds and 2nd in the final round saw him score 46 points. Finishing in second place was Polish rider Krystian Pieszczek with 40 points while British rider Robert Lambert defeated Australia's Jack Holder (the younger brother of 2012 World Champion Chris Holder) in a run-off in the final round in Poland to claim 3rd place after both riders finished the series on 37 points. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Final series

No.	Date	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd place
1	18 June	King's Lynn Stadium, King's Lynn	Krystian Pieszczek	Robert Lambert	Max Fricke
2	16 September	Svítkov Stadium, Pardubice	Dimitri Bergé	Patrick Hansen	Max Fricke
3	October 2	Zbigniew Podlecki Stadium, Gdańsk	Viktor Kulakov	Max Fricke	Erik Riss

Classification

The meeting classification was according to the points scored during the meeting, with the total points scored by each rider during each meeting credited as World Championship points. The FIM Speedway Under 21 World Champion was the rider who collected most World Championship points at the end of the series. In case of a tie between one or more riders in the final overall classification, a run-off decided the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. For all other placings, the better-placed rider in the last meeting was the better placed rider.

Pos.	Rider	Points
	Max Fricke	46	12	18	16
	Krystian Pieszczek	40	20	9	11
	Robert Lambert	37	19	11	7
4	Jack Holder	37	13	12	12
5	Dimitri Bergé	35	6	19	10
6	Patrick Hansen	35	6	14	15
7	Viktor Kulakov	27	6	6	15
8	Erik Riss	27	10	6	11
9	Paweł Przedpełski	26	6	11	9
10	Josh Bates	23	12	5	6
11	Eduard Krčmář	19	6	6	7
12	Adam Ellis	17	5	5	7
13	Bartosz Smektała	16	7	6	3
14	Mikkel B. Andersen	9	2	5	2
15	Joel Andersson	9	5	4	–
16	Kenny Wennerstam	4	–	–	4
17	Dominik Kossakowski	3	–	–	3
18	Zach Wajtknecht	1	1	–	–
19	Nathan Greaves	1	1	–	–
20	Patrik Mikel	1	–	1	–
21	Max Clegg	0	0	–	–
22	Ondrej Smetana	0	–	0	–
23	Josef Novák	0	–	0	–
24	Kacper Woryna	0	–	–	0
25	Oskar Bober	0	–	–	0
26	Maksym Drabik	0	–	–	–

See also

• 2016 Speedway Grand Prix
• 2016 Team Speedway Junior World Championship

References

1. "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
2. "World Under 21 Championship". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
3. "2016 FIM Speedway Under 21 World Championship Calendar". FIM. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
4. 2016 FIM Speedway U21 World Championship Final Classification
5. "Speedway Junioren Weltmeisterschaft (U-21)". Speedway Yesterday. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
6. "World U21 winners". Speedweek. Retrieved 14 March 2024.