European Junior Speedway Championship

The Junior European Individual Speedway Championship is an annual tournament held by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) since 1998.

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Age limit

The minimum age for participation in the tournament is 16 years, the maximum - until 2012, 19 years old, from 2012 - 21 years old (the athlete has the right to participate in the tournament until the end of the year in which he turned 21 years old).

Since 2017, separate tournaments have been held up to 19 years and up to 21 years.

Tournament History

In 1977 and 1978, the International Motorcycle Federation (FIM) held the European Speedway Championship for riders under 21 years of age. In 1979, it was decided to open the tournament, that is, to allow riders from other countries of the world to enter the tournament.

In 1998, it was decided to rename this tournament, following common sense, into the Personal Junior Speedway World Championship (also under 21 years old), and in its place to hold the Personal European Junior Speedway Championship under the control of the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) for riders up to 19 years.

U19 Winners

Year	Final Place	Winner	Second place	Third place
European Cup (trial tournament)
1997	?	Bartholomew Bardetsky	Rafal Okonevsky	Mariusz Vegzhik
European Championships
1998	Krshko	Rafal Okonevsky	Alyos Dryml	Hans Andersen
1999	Rashly	Rafal Okonevsky	Karol Maleha	Yaroslav Hampel
2000	Ljubljana	Lukas Dryml	Niels Iversen	Zbigniew Cherwinski
2001	Pardubice	Lukas Romanek	Rafal Kurmanski	Danielle Davidsson
2002	Daugavpils	Matei Zagar	Kenneth Bierre	Fredrick Lindgren
2003	Pocking	Kenneth Bierre	Janusz Kolodzey	Antonio Lindbeck
2004	Rybnik	Antonio Lindbeck	Karol Zombik	Morten Riesager
2005	Scam	Karol Zombik	Kyastas Puodzhuks	Robert Pettersson
2006	Gorichan	Yuritsa Pavlich	Andrey Karpov	Lars Hansen
2007	Czestochowa	Nikolay Klindt	Yuritsa Pavlich	Philip Shiter
2008	Stralsund	Arthur Mrochka	Maciej Janowski	Artyom Vodyakov
2009	Tarnow	Przemyslaw Pavlicki	Maciej Janowski	Martin Vatsulik
2010	Gorichan	Dennis Andersson	Przemyslaw Pavlicki	Patrick Dudek
2011	Ljubljana	Peter Pavlitsky	Michael Jensen	Vitaly Belousov
In 2012-2016 only the junior european championship was under 21
2017	Divishov	Robert Lambert	Philip Yelmland	Bartosh Smectal
2018	Varkaus	Mads Hansen	Shimon Schlauderbach	Oleg Mikhailov
Year	Final Place	Winner	Second place	Third place

U21 Winners

Year	Final Place	Winner	Second place	Third place
2012	Opole	Bartosh Zmarzlik	Tobias Muselyak	Mikkel Michelsen
2013	Guestrow	Mikkel Michelsen	Andrzej Lebedev	David Bellego
2014	Rybnik	Vaclav Milik	Katsper Voryna	Andrzej Lebedev
2015	Silkeborg	Anders Thomsen	Nikolay Busk Jacobsen	Bartosh Smectal
2016	Lamot-Landerron	Dimitri Berger	Edward krchmar	Sergey Logachev
2017	Daugavpils	Robert Lambert	Bartosh Smectal	Andreas Lager
2018	Stralsund	Dominic Cubera	Victor Lampart	Frederick Jacobsen
Year	Final Place	Winner	Second place	Third place

Medal Score

Rafal Okonevsky is the only two-time European junior speedway champion (photo 2007).

Position	A country				Total
one.	Poland	9	12	five	26
2	Denmark	five	four	6	15
3	Czech	2	2	one	five
four.	Sweden	2	one	four	7
five.	Great Britain	2			2
6	Croatia	one	one		2
7	France	one		one	2
eight.	Slovenia	one			one
9.	Latvia		2	2	four
ten.	Ukraine		one		one
eleven.	Russia			3	3
12.	Slovakia			one	one

Statistics

To date, the most titled participant in the tournament is the Polish athlete Rafal Okonevsky , who is a 2-time European champion among juniors.

Only two athletes managed to win the European Championships in both junior and adult standings: Slovenian Matej агagar (2002 and 2004, 2006, respectively) and Croat Yuritsa Pavlic , and the latter became European champion among adult racers (2007) the next year after victory at the junior championship (2006).