TOP TEN FOR KILLEEN

OXFORD youngster Luke Killeen was the highest-placed Great Britain rider in Thursday’s FIM European Under-19 Final at Herxheim.

Killeen put in a gritty performance with a score of seven points for a 10th place finish, whilst Luke Harrison and Ashton Boughen finished with scores of three and two points respectively to finish the evening in 14th and 15th places.

Ukraine’s Nazar Parnitskyi was crowned the new European Under-19 Champion after facing a run-off with Denmark’s Bastian Pedersen after both riders had tied on 13 points.

The 2024 SGP2 (World Under-21) Champion Wiktor Przyjemski claimed the bronze medal with a score of 12 points after Denmark’s Mikkel Andersen was cruelly disqualified from his fourth heat, and he therefore finished just outside the rostrum places on 11.

The three British riders now head back to the UK in a bid to add their own British Championship to their CV over the weekend, as they all compete in the British Under-19 Final at Oxford on Sunday afternoon – with Killeen and Boughen in action for the Cheetahs in the Cab Direct Championship Grand Final the previous evening.