Jannick de Jong (born 7 June 1987) is a Dutch former

motorcycle racer The motorcycle sport of racing (also called moto racing and motorbike racing) includes motorcycle road racing and off-road racing, both either on circuits or open courses, and track racing. Other categories include hill climbs, drag racing and ...

. Hecompeted primarily in longtrack and

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. He was the 2015 world champion in longtrack.

Career

De Jong represented the Netherlands national long track team in the World Longtrack Championship from 2007 to 2023 and on three occasions has won the World championship titles at the 2013 Team Long Track World Championship in Folkestone, England, 2016 Team Long Track World Championship in

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in the Czech Republic and in 2023, when he was part of the Netherlands team, along with Romano Hummel,

Dave Meijerink Dave Meijerink (born 23 March 2000) is a long track rider, grasstrack racer and motorcycle speedway from the Netherlands. Career Meijerink was beginning to impress in the Netherlands during 2017 but came to prominence when he reached the fi ...

and

Mika Meijer Mika Meijer (born 5 April 2001) is a motorcycle speedway and Long track motorcycle racing, long track rider from the Netherlands. Career Meijer came to prominence when he reached the U19 final of the 2017 Individual Speedway Junior European ...

, that won the 2023 Team Long Track World Championship. The highlight of his career was becoming the Long Track World Champion in 2015. In addition he has won the European Grasstrack Champion three times in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Major results

World Longtrack Championship

Grand-Prix

* 2005 - 4 apps (12th) 31pts * 2006 - 2 apps (17th) 10pts * 2007 - 3 apps (11th) 28pts * 2008 - 4 apps (9th) 33pts * 2009 - 4 apps (10th) 42pts * 2010 - 6 apps (9th) 70pts * 2011 - 0 apps * 2012 - 6 apps (9th) 74pts * 2013 - 6 apps (Second) 97pts * 2014 - 4 apps (Second) 72pts * 2015 - 4 apps (First) 75pts * 2016 - 5 apps (Second) 101pts * 2017 - 1 apps (15th) 24pts * 2022 - 1 apps (19th) 10pts

Best Grand-Prix Results

* Eenrum Second 2016, Third 2013 *

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First 2016, Third 2013 * Herxheim am Berg First 2014, 2017 *

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First 2014, Second 2010, 2013 * Morizès First 2015 *

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Third 2016 *

Vechta Vechta (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Vechte'') is the capital and largest city of the Vechta (district), Vechta district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is home to the University of Vechta. It is known for the 'Stoppelmarkt' fair, which takes place every ...

Second 2016

World Team Championship

* 2007 Morizès (5th) 32pts (Rode with Dirk Fabriek, Theo Pijper, Erik Eijbergen) * 2008

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(Second) 45pts (Rode with Dirk Fabriek, Erik Eijbergen, Mark Stiekema) * 2009 Eenrum (Second) 46pts (Rode with Dirk Fabriek, Theo Pijper, Mark Stiekema) * 2011

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(Second) 38pts (Rode with Sjoerd Rozenberg, Mark Stiekema, Jeffrey Woortman) * 2013

Folkestone Folkestone ( ) is a coastal town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs. It was an important harbour, shipping port, and fashionable coastal res ...

(First) 65pts (Rode with Dirk Fabriek, Theo Pijper, Mark Stiekema)) * 2014

(Second) 41pts (Rode with Dirk Fabriek, Theo Pijper, Henry van der Steen) * 2015

(Fifth) 31pts (Rode with Henry van der Steen & Sjoerd Rozenberg) * 2016

(First) 46pts (Rode with Theo Pijper, Dirk Fabriek, Romano Hummel) *

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(First) 64pts (Rode with

, Romano Hummel)

Grasstrack European Championship

* 2004 Eenrum (10th) 11pts * 2005 Schwarme (17th) 4pts * 2006

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(9th) 10pts * 2007

(7th) 11pts * 2008 Siddeburen (11th) 8pts * 2009 Berghaupten (7th) 14pts * 2010

(5th) 12pts * 2011

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(Second) 10pts * 2012 Eenrum (Third) 16pts * 2013

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region () of Detmold (region), Detmold and the L ...

(Champion) 19pts * 2014 Saint-Macaire (Champion) 20pts * 2015

Staphorst Staphorst () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. History The villages of Staphorst and its southern neighbour Rouveen came into existence as in the 13th century monks started to bring the bogs and swamps into culture. All ...

(Champion) 19pts * 2016

(6th) 17pts

Dutch Grasstrack Championship

* 2003 (Third) * 2004 (Champion) * 2005 (8th) * 2006 (Champion) * 2007 (Champion) * 2008 (Third) * 2009 (6th) * 2010 (Third) * 2011 (Champion) * 2012 (Second) * 2013 (Champion) * 2014 (Champion) * 2015 (Champion) * 2016 (Champion)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jong, Jannick De Dutch speedway riders Dutch motorcycle racers 1987 births Living people Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship riders 21st-century Dutch people