The 2023 SGP2 series was the 47th edition of the

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Individual Under-21 World Championship. It was staged as the SGP2 class of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix series after rights holders

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and

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. Poland's

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won the title for the second season running, becoming only the fourth rider to win multiple Under-21 World Championship titles after Emil Sayfutdinov,

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took second with

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completing an all-Polish podium.

Qualifying

The 2023 season consisted of three qualifying events.

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Keynan Rew Keynan Rew (born 2003) is an international speedway rider from Australia. Speedway career In 2021, Rew helped Australia qualify for the final of the 2021 Speedway of Nations (the World team Championships of speedway). In 2022, he helped Wilki ...

and

Esben Hjerrild Esben Hjerrild (born 9 April 2002) is a motorcycle speedway rider from Denmark. Career Hjerrild reached the final of the 2021 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship. He rides in the Danish Speedway League for Grindsted (2022 to 202 ...

won the qualifying rounds. In addition to the 12 qualifiers,

, Mathias Pollestad and

were named as series wildcards.

Main event

The 2023 season consisted of three rounds.

Final Classification

References

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Qualifying

Main event

Final Classification

See also

References