| World Under-21 Championship | |
|---|---|
 Max Fricke | |
The 2016 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 40th edition of the FIM World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships.[1][2]
It was staged over three rounds, at King's Lynn, Pardubice and Gdańsk.[3]
The championship was won by triple Australian Under-21 Champion Max Fricke 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 with 40 points while British rider Robert Lambert defeated Australia's Jack Holder (the younger brother of 2012 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.[4][5][6]
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- ^ 2016 FIM Speedway U21 World Championship Final Classification
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- ^ "World U21 winners". Speedweek. Retrieved 14 March 2024.