Max Dilger (born 14 July 1989) is a

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and longtrack speedway rider from Germany. He earned 3 international caps for the German national speedway team.

Career

In 2006, Dilger started racing in Poland and rode for the Hungarian team

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during the 2006 Polish speedway season. He would then spend two seasons with

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. In 2008, Dilger won the German Junior Championship and was nominated as a track reserve at 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany, but was replaced by

Kevin Wölbert Kevin Wölbert (born 14 June 1989) is a German motorcycle speedway rider who has won the Individual German Championship title three times. Career history When Max Dilger was injured, Wölbert was nominated as second track reserve at the 200 ...

. He started racing in the British leagues during the 2009 Premier League speedway season, when riding for the

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. Also in 2009, Dilger rode for Kolejarz Opole in the Polish Speedway Second League. He would stay with both the Scottish club and Opole in 2010. He then joined

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in Poland for 2011 and 2012 and returned to British speedway with the Redcar Bears in 2012. After the 2014 season with

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he left conventional speedway to concentrate on longtrack and was very successful reaching several World Longtrack Series finals. In 2019, he was part of the German team, along with Lukas Fienhage and

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, that won the silver medal at the 2019 Team Long Track World Championship. He also returned to league speedway in 2019, re-joining Polonia Piła and after two more seasons, once again joined Piła for the 2022 Polish speedway season. In 2022, he was part of the German team, along with Erik Riss and Lukas Fienhage that won the 2022 Team Long Track World Championship. He was on

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's roster for the 2023 Swedish speedway season and in 2024, riding with Daniel Spiller for the Herxheim Drifters, Dilger took third place in the German pairs championship. In 2024, he won another gold medal at the 2024 FIM Long Track of Nations. In October 2024, Dilger suffered a serious crash in a French league match, injuring his

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which caused spinal cord damage and had to undergo a long rehabilitation.

Results

Speedway

World Championships

* Individual U-21 World Championship ** ''

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

- 14th placed in the Quarter-Final One'' ** ''

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

- 15th placed in the Semi-Final One'' ** ''

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

- 13th placed in the Semi-Final Two'' **

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

- ''qualify to the Semi-Final Two'' * Team U-21 World Championship **

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

Rybnik Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; ) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 mi) from the Czech Republic, Czech border. It i ...

- 4th placed (2 pts) **

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- 4th placed (4 pts) ** ''

- 3rd place in the Qualifying Round Two'' ** ''

- 2nd place in the Qualifying Round One'' ** ''

- 3rd place in the Qualifying Round Two''

European Championships

* Individual European Championship ** ''

- 8th placed in the Semi-Final One'' * European Pairs Championship **

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- 7th placed (0 pts) ** ''

- 6th placed in the Semi-Final One'' **

Miskolc Miskolc ( , ; ; Czech language, Czech and ; ; ; ) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 as of 1 January 2014, Miskolc is the List of cities and towns in Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, ...

- 5th placed (did not started) * Individual U-19 European Championship ** ''

- 13th placed in the Semi-Final Three'' * Team U-19 European Championship **

Rawicz Rawicz (; ) is a town in west-central Poland with 21,398 inhabitants as of 2004. It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Leszno Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Rawicz County. History The ...

- Runner-up (2 pts) * European Club Champions' Cup ** ''

- 4th placed in the Semi-Final One'' for MC Pfaffenhofen

Longtrack

World Longtrack Championship

Grasstrack

European Championship

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dilger, Max 1989 births Living people German speedway riders Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship riders Sportspeople from Lahr German expatriate sportspeople in Poland German expatriate sportspeople in England German expatriate sportspeople in Scotland German expatriate sportspeople in Sweden