2016 World Under 21 Championship

2016 World Under 21 Championship
1st Max Fricke
2nd Krystian Pieszczek
3rd Robert Lambert

The 2016 championship was staged over three rounds, at King's Lynn, Pardubice and GdaƄsk. The title was won by Max Fricke who became Australia's 5th 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 in a run-off in the final round in Poland to claim 3rd place after both riders finished the series on 37 points

3 qualifying rounds were held in May with the top 4 riders in each event qualifying for the Final rounds. These riders were joined by 3 permanent wild cards picked by the FIM and a wild card picked by the host nation.

Qualifying Riders - Max Fricke Jack Holder Patrick Hansen Dimitri Berge Victor Kulakov Eric Riss Josh Bates Eduard Krcmar Adam Ellis Bartosz Smektala Mikkel B Andersen Maksym Drabik
Permanent Wildcards - Krystian Pieszczek Robert Lambert & Joel Andersson
Event Wild Cards - Zach Wajtknecht Patrik Mikel & Dominik Kossakowski
nominated substitute riders for the series to be available in the event of withdrawal or injury
Pawel Przedpelski (Poland), Nike Lunna (Finland) & Kenny Wennerstam (Sweden)
Maksym Drabik was injured and was replaced by Pawel Przedpelski
Krystian Pieszczek, Max Fricke, Robert Lambert
Qualifying Round 1 20/05/2016 Pardubice, Czech Republic
Qualifying Round 2 21/05/2016 Pocking, Germany
Qualifying Round 3 21/05/2016 Belle Vue Manchester
Final Round 1 18/06/2016 King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Final Round 2 16/09/2016 Pardubice Czech Republic
Final Round 3 02/10/2016 Gdansk, Poland
Qualifiers Permanent Wild Card Wildcard Reserves Substitute
Czech Republic Germany Great Britain Great Britain Czech Republic Poland
# QR1 QR2 QR3 FR1 FR2 FR3 Tot
1 Max Fricke Australia - 14 - Q 12 18 16 46
2 Krystian Pieszczek Poland - 10 - Q 20 9 11 40
3 Robert Lambert Great Britain - - 6 Q 19 11 7 37
4 Jack Holder Australia - - 9 Q 13 12 12 37
5 Patrick Hansen Denmark 12 - - Q 6 14 15 35
6 Dimitri Berge France - - 9 Q 6 19 10 35
7 Victor Kulakov Ukraine 13 - - Q 6 6 15 27
8 Eric Riss Germany - 13 7 Q 10 6 11 27
9 Pawel Przedpelski Poland - - 4 Q 6 11 9 26
10 Josh Bates Great Britain - 12 - Q 12 5 6 23
11 Eduard Krcmar Czech Republic - - - Q 6 6 7 19
12 Adam Ellis Great Britain 12 - - Q 5 5 7 17
13 Bartosz Smektala Poland - 13 - Q 7 6 3 16
14 Mikkel B Andersen Denmark - - 7 Q 2 5 2 9
15 Joel Andersson Sweden 10 - - 5 4 inj 9
16 Kenny Wennerstam Sweden 10 - -
4
4
17 Dominik Kossakowski Poland - - -
3
3
18 Zach Wajtknecht Great Britain - - -
1
1
19 Nathan Greaves Great Britain - -
dnr
1
1
20 Patrik Mikel Czech Republic - - 1
1
1
21 Max Clegg Great Britain - - 1
0
0
22 Ondrej Smetana Czech Republic - - -
dnr
0
23 Josef Novak Czech Republic - - -
dnr
0
24 Kacper Woryna Poland - - -
dnr
0
25 Oskar Bober Poland - - -
dnr
0
- Maksym Drabik Poland 15 - - Q injured -
- Stanislav Melnychuk 9 - - - - - - -
- Victor Trofimov 9 - - - - - - -
- Nick Skorja Slovenia 6 - - - - - - -
- Zednek Holub Czech Republic 6 - - - - - - -
- Frederik Jakobsen Denmark 5 - - - - - - -
- Roland Benko Hungary 5 - - - - - - -
- Ondrej Smetana Czech Republic 4 - - - - - - -
- Davis Kurmis Latvia 2 - - - - - - -
- Deniss Zvorigins Latvia 1 - - - - - - -
- Michal Tomka Slovenia 1 - - - - - - -
- Michal Skurla Czech Republic
dnr
- - - - - - -
- Josef Novak Czech Republic
dnr
- - - - - - -
- Andreas Lyager Denmark - 10 - - - - - -
- Lasse Frederiksen Norway - 9 - - - - - -
- Gleb Shevchenko Russia - 8 - - - - - -
- Michael Hartel Germany - 7 - - - - - -
- Gleb Chugunov Russia - 6 - - - - - -
- Dominik Moeser Germany - 6 - - - - - -
- Ziga Kovacic Slovenia - 4 - - - - - -
- Facundo Cuello - 3 - - - - - -
- Daniel Spiller Germany -
2
- - - - - -
- John Bernard France - 2 - - - - - -
- Giorgio Trentin Italy - 1 - - - - - -
- Mattia Lenarduzzi Italy - 0 - - - - - -
- Steven Mauer Germany -
0
- - - - - -
- Nike Luna Finland - - 6 - - - - -
- Marcin Nowak Poland - - 5 - - - - -
- Brady Kurtz Australia - - 5 - - - - -
- Alex Johansson Sweden - - 4 - - - - -
- Christopher Selvin Sweden - - 3 - - - - -
- Emil Grondal Denmark - - 3 - - - - -
- Joel Kling Sweden - - 2 - - - - -
- Jake Turner New Zealand - - 1 - - - - -
- Jack Smith Great Britain - -
dnr
- - - - -