| Current season or competition: 2012 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship |
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| Sport | motorcycle speedway |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1977 |
| No. of teams | 14 riders |
| Continent | World |
| Most recent champion(s) | POL Maciej Janowski (2011) |
| Most titles | Individual - 2 titles: AUS Darcy Ward RUS Emil Sayfutdinov Team - 8 titles: Poland |
| Related competitions | Team Championship |
The Individual Speedway Junior World Championship (usually referred to as the Speedway World Under 21 Championship) is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) since 1977. The current World Champion is Maciej Janowski from Poland who won 2011 championship.
Emil Sayfutdinov from Russia (2007 and 2008) and Darcy Ward from Australia (2009 and 2010) are the only double U-21 World Champions.
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Between 1977 and 1978 the Championship was the called Individual Speedway Junior European Championship (European Speedway Under 21 Championship), open only to European riders. In 1979, the Championship allowed riders from other continents to compete, but was renamed to the Speedway World Under 21 Championship in 1988.
A new competition was named Individual Speedway Junior European Championship was founded by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) in 1998, only open to European competitors.
The minimum age of a rider to compete is 16 years of age (starting on the date of the rider's birthday). The maximum age is 21 years of age (finishing at the end of the year in which the rider celebrates his 21st birthday).
| Year | Venue | Winners | Runner-up | 3rd place |
| 1977 | Vojens | Alf Busk (9 pts) | Joe Owen (8 pts) | Les Collins (7 pts) |
| 1978 | Lonigo | Finn Rune Jensen (13 pts) | Kevin Jolly (12+3 pts) | Neil Middleditch (12+2 pts) |
| 1979 | Leningrad | Ron Preston (13 pts) | Airat Faizulin (12 pts) | Ari Koponen (11+3 pts) |
| 1980 | Pocking | Tommy Knudsen (14 pts) | Tony Briggs (12 pts) | Dennis Sigalos (11+3 pts) |
| 1981 | Slaný | Shawn Moran (15 pts) | Antonín Kasper, Jr. (14 pts) | Jiri Hrdinak (13 pts) |
| 1982 | Pocking | Antonín Kasper, Jr. (14 pts) | Mark Courtney (12+3 pts) | Peter Ravn (12+2 pts) |
| 1983 | Lonigo | Steve Baker (13 pts) | David Bargh (12 pts) | Marvyn Cox (11 pts) |
| 1984 | King's Lynn | Marvyn Cox (12 pts) | Neil Evitts (11+3 pts) | Steve Lucero (11+2 pts) |
| 1985 | Abensberg | Per Jonsson (15 pts) | Jimmy Nilsen (13 pts) | Ole Hansen (11+3pts) |
| 1986 | Rivne | Igor Marko (13 pts) | Tony Olsson (12 pts) | Brian Karger (11 pts) |
| 1987 | Zielona Góra | Gary Havelock (13 pts) | Piotr Świst (12+3 pts) | Sean Wilson (12+2 pts) |
| Year | Venue | Winners | Runner-up | 3rd place |
| Year | Venue | Winners | Runner-up | 3rd place |
| 2010 | three events | Darcy Ward (30+3 pts) | Maciej Janowski (30+2 pts) | Maksims Bogdanovs (30+1 pts) |
| 2011 | four events | Maciej Janowski (50 pts) | Darcy Ward (46+3 pts) | Przemysław Pawlicki (46+2 pts) |
| 2012 | probably seven events | |||
| Year | Venue | Winners | Runner-up | 3rd place |
| Pos | National Team | Total | |||
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| 1. | Poland | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| 2. | Denmark | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
| 3. | Great Britain | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| 4. | Australia | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| 5. | Sweden | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| 6. | Soviet Union Russia |
5 | 3 | 2 | |
| 7. | Czechoslovakia Czech Republic |
7 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 8. | United States | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| 9. | New Zealand | 2 | 2 | ||
| 10. | Croatia | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Norway | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 12. | Slovenia | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13. | Finland | 1 | 1 | ||
| Germany | 1 | 1 | |||
| Latvia | 1 | 1 |
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