The 2016 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 40th edition of the
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World
motorcycle speedway
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Under-21 Championships.
It was staged over three rounds, at
King's Lynn
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,
Pardubice
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and
Gdańsk
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. The championship was won by triple
Australian Under-21 Champion Max Fricke
Max Fricke (born 29 March 1996) is an Australian speedway rider. He is a World team champion, twice Australian champion and four times Australian Under-21 Champion.
Career Juniors
Fricke competed in junior levels of motocross and speedway in ...
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
Kristian Pieszczek (born 23 September 1995) is a Polish speedway rider.
Career
Born in Gdańsk, Pieszczek first had success as a junior in 2007.
He made his Polish league debut in 2011 for Wybrzeże Gdańsk, going on to ride for the club in th ...
with 40 points while British rider
Robert Lambert defeated Australia's
Jack Holder
Jack Holder (born 23 March 1996) in Appin, New South Wales is an Australian speedway rider currently riding for Sheffield Tigers in the British Elite League and Apator Toruń in the Polish Ekstraliga. Jack is a World team champion and his bro ...
(the younger brother of
2012
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Speedway World Champion Chris Holder
Christopher Robert Holder (born 24 September 1987 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian speedway rider currently riding for Lejonen in the Swedish Elitserien and for Apator Toruń in the Polish Speedway Ekstraliga. He became the Austral ...
) in a run-off in the final round in Poland to claim 3rd place after both riders finished the series on 37 points.
2016 FIM Speedway U21 World Championship Final Classification
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Final series
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.
See also
* 2016 Speedway Grand Prix
The 2016 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 22nd season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 71st FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the sixteenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company. Tai Woff ...
* 2016 Team Speedway Junior World Championship
The 2016 Team Speedway Junior World Championship was the 12th FIM Team Under-21 World Championship season. The final took place on 20 August, 2016 at the ICA Maxi Arena in Norrköping, Sweden.Poland won their ninth Team Under-21 World Champio ...
References
{{Individual Speedway Junior World Championship seasons
2016
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World Individual Junior