Team Speedway Under-21 World Championship
Current season, competition or edition: 2023 Speedway of Nations 2 | |
| Sport | Motorcycle speedway |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Continent | World |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Poland (2023) |
| Most titles | Poland (16 times) |
| Related competitions | Individual Championship |
The Team Speedway Under-21 World Championship is a speedway competition to determine the World Championship for national Under-21 teams (the sport's equivalent of the Under-21 World Cup in football).
As of 2022, the event has been known as the Speedway of Nations 2, the Under-21 division of the Speedway of Nations. The first edition of the competition was in 2005 prior to its incorporation with the Speedway of Nations.[1][2][3]
Poland has dominated the competition winning the title record 16 times.
Previous winners
Team Classification
| Pos | National Team |  |
 |
 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Poland
|
16 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| 2. |  Denmark
|
2 | 9 | 5 | 15 |
| 3. |  Russia
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4. |  Sweden
|
0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 5. |  Australia
|
0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 6. |  Great Britain
|
0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 7. |  Czech Republic
|
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8. |  Ukraine
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Latvia
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Rider classification (top 10)
| Pos | Rider | Team | Total | |
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bartosz Zmarzlik | Poland
|
5 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2. | Maksym Drabik | Poland
|
4 | 4 | ||
| Bartosz Smektała | Poland
|
4 | 4 | |||
| 3. | Paweł Przedpełski | Poland
|
4 | 3 | 1 | |
| 4. | Maciej Janowski | Poland
|
4 | 3 | 1 | |
| 5. | Karol Ząbik | Poland
|
3 | 3 | ||
| 6. | Piotr Pawlicki Jr. | Poland
|
3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Michael J. Jensen | Denmark
|
3 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 8. | Artur Mroczka | Poland
|
3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Przemysław Pawlicki | Poland
|
3 | 2 | 1 |
Rules
Eligibility
The minimum age limit (16 years) starts on the date of the rider's birthday and the maximum age limit (21 years) finishes at the end of the year in which they reach 21 years old.
Team composition
The 4 competing teams shall each consist of 5 riders; there shall be no substitute rider:
- Team A (Helmet colour Red): No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Team B (Blue): No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Team C (White): No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Team D (Yellow/Black): No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
When a team is 6 or more points in arrears of the leading team, the team manager may substitute a rider in the next or succeeding heats with another rider in his team, However, each rider may be used as a substitute once only. Substitutions must stop when the team is less than 6 points in arrears.
Prize
in Swiss franc
| Placing | Qualifying Meeting |
Final |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 3,600 | 5,000 |
| 2nd | 2,600 | 4,000 |
| 3rd | 2,000 | 3,000 |
| 4th | 1,800 | 2,500 |
| Total | 10,000 | 14,500 |
See also
References
- ^ "Under 21 Speedway World Cup". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ "JUNIOR (U-21) WORLD CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
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