Sport | motorcycle speedway |
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Founded | 2010 |
Most recent champion(s) | Rasmus Karlsson |
Most titles | 2 titles: Eduard Krčmář Matthew Gilmore |
The Speedway Youth World Championship, or Speedway Under-16 World Championship, is an annual speedway event held each year and organized by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) since 2010. [1]
As of 2022, the title was awarded to the winner of the SGP3 category at the FIM Speedway World Championship. [2]
The series was launched as the Speedway 250cc Youth World Cup. At launch it was limited to 250cc speedway bikes and for competitors 16 years of age or under, which has remained ever since. In 2018 it was renamed the Speedway World Youth Championship, [3] before changing names again in 2022 to SGP3.
The event was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [4]
The maximum age is 16 years of age; finishing at the end of the year in which the rider celebrates his or her 16th birthday.
Year | Venue | Winners | Runner-up | 3rd place |
2010 | Slaný | Eduard Krčmář | Valentin Grobauer | Michell Hofmann |
2011 | Norrköping | Eduard Krčmář | Victor Palovaara | Ondřej Smetana |
2012 | Goričan/ Plzeň | Michael Härtel | Eduard Krčmář | Dimitri Bergé |
2013 | Teterow | Daniel Spiller | Arsłan Fajzulin | Michaela Krupickova |
2014 | Opole | Sandro Wassermann | Lukas Fienhage | Darrell De Vries |
2015 | Lamothe-Landerron | Matthew Gilmore | Mads Hansen | Lukas Fienhage |
2016 | Güstrow | Matthew Gilmore | Mads Hansen | Jedd List |
2017 | Prague | Jonas Knudsen | Karol Żupiński | Philip Hellström Bängs |
Year | Venue | Winners | Runner-up | 3rd place |
2018 | Toruń | Ben Ernst | Mateusz Bartkowiak | Philip Hellström Bängs |
2019 | Holsted | Jesper Knudsen | Ben Ernst | Noel Wahlqvist |
2020 | Cancelled due to the outbreak of COVID-19. | |||
2021 | Cloppenburg | Oskar Paluch | Nicklas Aagaard | Villads Nagel Christiansen |
Year | Venue | Winners | Runner-up | 3rd place |
2022 | Wrocław | Mikkel Andersen | Villads Nagel Christiansen | Antoni Kawczynski |
2023 | Målilla | Rasmus Karlsson | Maksymilian Pawełczak | Mikkel Andersen |
2024 | Gorzów | Maksymilian Pawełczak | Beau Bailey | William Cairns |
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