2016 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

The 2016 Individual Speedway Under 21 World Championship is the 2016 version of FIM the Individual Under-21 World Championship and will be staged over three rounds, at King's Lynn, Pardubice and Gdańsk.[1] Poland's Bartosz Zmarzlik won the title in 2015.

2016 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship
Previous:	2015	Next:	2017

The championship was won by triple Australian Under-21 Champion Max Fricke who become 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 (the younger brother of 2012 Speedway 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.[2]

Final series

No.	Date	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd place
1	June 18	King's Lynn	Krystian Pieszczek	Robert Lambert	Max Fricke
2	September 16	Pardubice	Dimitri Berge	Patrick Hansen	Max Fricke
3	October 2	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. "2016 FIM Speedway Under 21 World Championship Calendar". FIM. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
2. 2016 FIM Speedway U21 World Championship Final Classification