Stephan Katt

Stephan Katt (born 15 September 1979) is a German former speedway rider. He competed in grasstrack, longtrack and motorcycle speedway. He earned one international cap for the German national speedway team.^[1]

Stephan Katt

Born	(1979-09-15) 15 September 1979 (age 45) Kiel, Germany
Nationality	German
Career history
Germany
1998–2012	Brokstedt
Great Britain
2003, 2006–2008	Somerset
2006	Swindon
2006	Oxford
Denmark
2004–2005	Outrup
2006–2007	Brovst
2008	Holsted
Poland
2006–2008	Łódź
2009	Opole
Individual honours
2006, 2009, 2012	European Grasstrack Champion
2010, 2011	German Longtrack champion
Team honours
2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014	World Long Track Team Champion

Career

Katt was a member of Germany national long track team and is a six times World Team Champion.^[2] In addition, he also won the German national longtrack championship three times.^[3]

He rode in Britain for Somerset Rebels in 2003^[4] and from 2006 to 2008.^[5]

In 2023, he was part of the German team, along with Erik Riss, Martin Smolinski and Jörg Tebbe, that won the silver medal at the 2023 Team Long Track World Championship.^[6]

Results

World Longtrack Championship

Grand-Prix

• 2000 - 1 apps (24th) 3pts
• 2001 - 4 apps (16th) 21pts
• 2002 - 5 apps (10th) 39pts
• 2003 - 4 apps (15th) 24pts
• 2004 - 4 apps (9th) 43pts
• 2005 - 3 apps (9th) 34pts
• 2006 - 1 app (22nd) 0pts
• 2007 - 3 apps (4th) 42pts
• 2008 - 4 apps (7th) 38pts
• 2009 - 3 apps (15th) 30pts
• 2010 - 6 apps (5th) 99pts
• 2011 - 6 apps (3rd) 101pts
• 2012 - 6 apps (8th) 77pts
• 2013 - 6 apps (13th) 56pts
• 2014 - 4 apps (6th) 52pts
• 2015 - 4 apps (13th) 27pts
• 2016 - 3 apps (15th) 16pts

Best Grand-Prix Results

• Saint-Macaire First 2007
• Mariánské Lázně First 2010, Third 2011
• Marmande Second 2014
• Morizès Third 2011, 2012
• Pfarrkirchen First 2010
• Vechta First 2011

Team Championship

• 2007 Morizès (First) 21/51pts (Rode with Gerd Riss, Enrico Janoschka, Matthias Kröger)
• 2008 Werlte (First) 7/45pts (Rode with Gerd Riss, Bernd Diener, Matthias Kröger)
• 2009 Eenrum Did not compete
• 2010 Morizès (First) 14/49pts (Rode with Matthias Kröger, Richard Speiser, Martin Smolinski)
• 2011 Scheeßel (First) 19/56pts (Rode with Richard Speiser, Jorg Tebbe, Martin Smolinski)
• 2012 Saint-Macaire (First) 22/48 (Rode with Matthias Kröger, Jorg Tebbe, Bernd Diener)
• 2013 Folkestone (4th) 16/44pts (Rode with Richard Speiser, Jorg Tebbe, Enrico Janoschka)
• 2014 Forssa (First) 6/45pts (Rode with Enrico Janoschka, Jorg Tebbe, Erik Riss)
• 2015 Mühldorf (Second) 0/41pts (Rode with Jorg Tebbe, Michael Hartel, Erik Riss)
• 2016 Mariánské Lázně (Second) 2/44pts (Rode with Martin Smolinski, Jorg Tebbe, Michael Hartel)

European Grasstrack Championship

• 1999 Semi-finalist
• 2000 Did not compete
• 2001 Did not compete
• 2002 Berghaupten (10th) 10pts
• 2003 Semi-finalist
• 2004 Eenrum (5th) 18pts
• 2005 Schwarme (6th) 11pts
• 2006 La Réole (champion) 18pts
• 2007 Folkestone (second) 13pts
• 2008 Siddeburen (14th) 6pts
• 2009 Berghaupten (champion) 17pts
• 2010 La Réole (18th) 1pt
• 2011 Skegness (11th) 8pts
• 2012 Eenrum (champion) 16pts
• 2013 Bielefeld (6th) 17pts
• 2014 Saint-Macaire (10th) 11pts
• 2015 Staphorst (third) 16pts
• 2016 Semi-finalist