2023 SGP2

The 2023 SGP2 series was the 47th edition of the FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship. It was staged as the SGP2 class of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix series after rights holders Discovery Sports Events took over promotional rights of the competition in 2022.^[1][2]

World Under 21 Championship
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The three qualifying rounds were staged at Krško, Pardubice and Vojens on 20 May. Four qualifiers from each qualifying heat progressed to the main event.^[3] Three wildcards were chosen for the main event, in addition to the 12 qualifiers; they were Mathias Pollestad, Anže Grmek and Petr Chlupáč.^[4]

Poland's Mateusz Cierniak won the title for the second season running, becoming only the fourth rider to win multiple Under-21 World Championship titles after Emil Sayfutdinov, Darcy Ward and Maksym Drabik. Damian Ratajczak took second with Bartłomiej Kowalski completing an all-Polish podium.

Qualifying

The 2023 season consisted of three qualifying events. Emil Breum, Keynan Rew and Esben Hjerrild won the qualifying rounds.^[5][6]

Krško Pos Rider Pts 1 Emil Breum 15 2 Norick Blödorn 14 3 Mateusz Cierniak 13 4 Gustav Grahn 11 5 Bastian Borke 10 6 Anže Grmek 10 7 Petr Chlupáč 9 8 Mathias Trésarrieu 7 9 Leon Flint 7 10 Maurice Brown 6 11 Jacob Hook 5 12 Richárd Füzesi 3 13 Matteo Boncinelli 3 14 Mykhailo Tymoshchuk 3 15 Julian Kuny 2 16 Roman Kapustin 1 17 Patricia Erhart 1

Pardubice Pos Rider Pts 1 Keynan Rew 13 2 Bartłomiej Kowalski 12 3 Casper Henriksson 11+3 4 Nicolai Heiselberg 11+2 5 Nazar Parnitskyi 10 6 Ernest Matjuszonok 10 7 Drew Kemp 9 8 Dan Gilkes 8 9 Daniel Klíma 7 10 Sebastian Kossler 6 11 Ričards Ansviesulis 6 12 Erik Bachhuber 5 13 Jan Jenicek 4 14 Tino Bouin 3 15 Matouš Kameník 3 16 Bruno Belan 1 17 Matěj Frýza 1

Vojens Pos Rider Pts 1 Esben Hjerrild 13+3 2 Philip Hellström Bängs 13+2 3 Francis Gusts 11 4 Damian Ratajczak 11 5 Mathias Pollestad 11 6 Kacper Pludra 11 7 Anders Rowe 11 8 Jaroslav Vaníček 9 9 Jesper Knudsen 8 10 Ludvig Selvin 7 11 Espen Sola 5 12 James Pearson 4 13 Alex Martin 2 14 Marlon Hegener 2 15 Artjams Juhno 2 16 Jonny Wynant 0

In addition to the 12 qualifiers, Anže Grmek, Mathias Pollestad and Petr Chlupáč were named as series wildcards.^[7]

Main event

The 2023 season consisted of three rounds.

Round	Date	Venue	Winner
1	2 June	Markéta Stadium, Prague	Mateusz Cierniak
2	23 June	Edward Jancarz Stadium, Gorzów	Mateusz Cierniak
3	15 September	Vojens Speedway Center, Vojens	Damian Ratajczak

Final Classification

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Pos.	Rider	Points
	(842) Mateusz Cierniak	49	20	20	9
	(523) Damian Ratajczak	45	16	9	20
	(302) Bartłomiej Kowalski	42	18	12	12
4	(27) Keynan Rew	41	12	18	11
5	(43) Casper Henriksson	33	1	14	18
6	(999) Mathias Pollestad	29	14	8	7
7	(243) Philip Hellström Bängs	27	7	10	10
8	(118) Emil Breum	26	10	16	0
9	(33) Norick Blödorn	21	6	11	4
10	(140) Francis Gusts	20	–	6	14
11	(63) Nicolai Heiselberg	18	5	5	8
12	(17) William Drejer	16	–	–	16
13	(94) Esben Hjerrild	13	8	4	1
14	(118) Gustav Grahn	12	11	1	–
15	(111) Anders Rowe	9	9	–	–
16	(44) Petr Chlupáč	8	3	2	3
17	(16) Oskar Paluch	7	–	7	–
18	(226) Anže Grmek	7	2	3	2
19	(18) Bastian Pedersen	6	–	–	6
20	(16) Jesper Knudsen	5	–	–	5
21	(16) Daniel Klíma	4	4	–	–
22	(785) Nazar Parnitskyi	0	–	–	0

See also

• 2023 Speedway Grand Prix
• 2023 Team Junior World Championship