A packed Saturday evening programme filled with drama and intense action in the famous Perényi Pál Salakmotor Stadion at Debrecen in Hungary completed the Qualification process for the 2025 FIM Speedway Under 21 World Championship (SGP2) powered by HKC Koopmann, Anlas and Kineo.
- Drama in Debrecen with final results only decided after a run-off
- Norick Blödorn leads home Nazar Parnitskyi in Perényi Pál Salakmotor Stadion
- Kevin Malkiewicz and Casper Henriksson book remaining two places in SGP2 Finals
At stake were four places behind the tapes in the three-round Final series that will decide the new SGP2 champion and with such a potentially career-changing prize on the line it was not surprising that the international field of ambitious young riders from twelve nations and two continents rose to the occasion.
First to show in the Heat races was Germany’s Norick Blödorn who got his evening off to a perfect start with victory from the Ukraine’s Nazar Parnitskyi – one of the pre-race favourites who was second in last season’s SGP2 championship chase – and Casper Henriksson from Sweden, who tasted victory at this stage of the competition last year.
Blödorn was joined on maximum points following the first block of Heats by Jesper Knudsen from Denmark, the Czech Republic’s Adam Bubba Bednář and Kevin Malkiewicz from Poland who all got their evenings under way with victories.
The youngest-ever German national champion, once Blödorn had found his flow there was no stopping him and he posted four more Heat wins to book his place in the Finals with an unbeaten maximum points haul.
Following his loss to Blödorn first time out, Parnitskyi regrouped and recovered in the perfect possible way with a run of four victories ensuring he will join his German rival in the Finals stages, but behind the leading pair it was too close to call.
As Bednář’s challenge fell away with a pointless performance in his fourth Heat dropping him out of contention, following a dramatic fifth block of Heats there was a three-way tie for third – and the remaining two Qualification places – between Malkiewicz, Henriksson and Australia’s Mitchell McDiarmid.
With nerves fraying and adrenalin pumping, everything depended on the run-off and it was won by Malkiewicz from Henriksson with the pair joining Blödorn and Parnitskyi – along with the eight successful riders from last month’s Qualifying rounds in Pardubice and Glasgow – in the three Finals at Målilla in Sweden on 4 July, Riga in Latvia on 1 August and Vojens in Denmark on 12 September. DEBRECEN OFFICIAL RESULTS HEREFor more information on the 2025 FIM Speedway Under 21 World Championship (SGP2) click here.
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