Lausanne stages star-studded 2025 FIM Awards

The 2025 FIM Awards Ceremony was staged last night (Saturday) at the modern and strikingly distinctive SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, near the northern shore of Lake Geneva, where the global superstars of motorcycle sport came together following another hard-fought and outstanding year of competition.

The fifteenth edition of the glittering end-of-season ceremony saw this year’s FIM World Champions receive their gold medals to enthusiastic and prolonged applause led by the assembled members of the FIM Family and headed by FIM President Jorge Viegas.

With one-thousand guests in attendance, the programme was non-stop, but ran smoothly as the winners of sixty-four FIM World Championship titles from six different spheres of motorcycle sport – Circuit Racing, Motocross, Trial, Enduro, Cross Country Rallies and Track Racing – were honoured.

Filling the impressive venue were representatives from the one-hundred-and twenty-one National Federations who showed their appreciation alongside motorcycling legends, FIM Promoters, FIM Partners and representatives from the wider global motorcycle community and industry.

Expertly overseen by Lauriane Gilliéron and Gavin Emmett who filled the demanding Masters of Ceremony roles, the evening was streamed LIVE on FIM-MOTO.TV as well as via DAZN Spain, Ziggo Sport TV, The MotoGP™ Channel, North American REV TV Canada, FOX Australia, QIDIANZHI BO/ on Douyin and PRIMA SPORT 3, ensuring the assembled guests were joined by a sizeable worldwide audience.

Following his FIM President’s Speech, Jorge Viegas presented the Gold Medal Nicolas Rodil del Valle to the Canton of Vaud, represented by Mrs Luisier Brodard, President of the Council of State of Vaud.

FIM President Jorge Viegas then welcomed FIM Circuit Racing Legend Jonathan Rea onto the stage who presented the medals in the Circuit Racing category to Beñat Fernandez – FIM Supersport 300 World Champion; Stefano Manzi – FIM Supersport World Champion; Alessandro Zaccone – FIM MotoE World Champion; Brian Uriarte – FIM JuniorGP World Champion; José Antonio Rueda – FIM Moto3 Grand Prix World Champion; Diogo Moreira – FIM Moto2 Grand Prix World Champion and Maria Herrera – FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Champion.

Newly inducted FIM Hall of Fame member Harry Everts was then invited onto the stage to present the medals in the Motocross category to Elias Ishoel – FIM Snowcross World Champion; Saga Forsell – FIM Women’s Snowcross World Champion; Mano Faure – FIM 125cc Junior Motocross World Champion; Koen Hermans – FIM SidecarCross Rider World Champion; Ben van den Bogaart – FIM SidecarCross Passenger World Champion; Marc-Reiner Schmidt – FIM S1GP SuperMoto World Champion; Simon Längenfelder – FIM MX2 Motocross World Champion and Lotte van Drunen – FIM Women’s Motocross World Champion.

More warm applause greeted FIM Hall of Fame member Sammy Miller who was then invited onto the stage to present the medals in the Trial category to Ryon Land – FIM Trial3 World Champion; Harry Hemingway – FIM Trial2 World Champion; Berta Abellán – FIM Women’s Trial World Champion and Toni Bou – FIM X-Trial World Champion.

Next onto the stage was Giovanni Copioli, FIM Vice-President, who presented the medals in the Enduro category to Romain Dagna – FIM Youth Enduro World Champion; Axel Semb – FIM Junior Enduro World Champion; Billy Bolt – FIM SuperEnduro World Champion; James Moore – FIM Hard Enduro Junior World Champion; Manuel Lettenbichler – FIM Hard Enduro World Champion; Rachel Gutish – FIM Women’s Enduro World Champion; Hamish Macdonald – FIM E3 Enduro World Champion; Andrea Verona – FIM E2 Enduro World Champion and Josep Garcia – FIM E1 Enduro World Champion.

Jean-Baptiste Ley, Warner Bros. Discovery Sports’ Motorsport Events Director, was then invited onto the stage to present the medals in the Track Racing category to Tino Stjernegaard Olsen – FIM SGP4 World Champion; Villads Pedersen – FIM Speedway Youth World Champion – SGP3; Nazar Parnitskyi – FIM Speedway Under 21 World Champion – SGP2; Zach Wajtknecht – FIM Long Track World Champion; Ervín Krajčovič – FIM Flat Track World Champion and Martin Haarahiltunen – FIM Ice Speedway World Champion.

FIM President Jorge Viegas then returned to the stage to present certificates to the Presidents of the Federations before handing out the Team category medal winners to Australia – FIM Motocross of Nations, received by Motorcycling Australia CEO Peter Doyle; Austria – FIM SuperMoto of Nations; France – FIM Junior SuperMoto of Nations, received by FFM President Sébastien Poirier; Germany – FIM Speedway of Nations Under 21 – SoN2, received by DMSB Vice-President Hans-Robert Kreutz; Great Britain – Long Track of Nations, received by ACU Chairman Tim Lightfoot; Italy – FIM International Six Days’ of Enduro Junior World Trophy and FIM International Six Days’ of Enduro World Trophy, received by FMI President Giovanni Copioli; the Netherlands – FIM SidecarCross of Nations and FIM QuadCross of Nations, received by KNMV Secretary General Wim Mulder; Spain – FIM Women’s Trial des Nations and FIM Trial des Nations and the USA – FIM International Six Days’ of Enduro Women’s World Trophy, received by AMA Chairman Robert Dingman.

FIM Deputy President Ignacio Verneda was then invited onto the stage to present the medals in the Endurance category to YART Yamaha – FIM Endurance Team World Champion; Manfred Kainz – Team Manager; Karel Hanika – FIM Endurance World Champion; Marvin Fritz – FIM Endurance World Champion and Jason O’Halloran – FIM Endurance World Champion.

The final category of the night was for Ultimate Champions with FIM President Jorge Viegas once again on stage to make the presentations to Daniel Sanders – FIM World Rally-Raid Champion – RallyGP; Toni Bou – FIM TrialGP World Champion; Josep Garcia – FIM EnduroGP World Champion; Bartosz Zmarzlik – FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Champion; Romain Febvre – FIM MXGP Motocross World Champion; Toprak Razgatlıoğlu – FIM Superbike World Champion and Marc Márquez – FIM MotoGP™ Grand Prix World Champion.

The night was brought to a conclusion with a surprise award for Marc Márquez who was presented with the FIM Sporting Trophy by FIM President Jorge Viegas.

Commenting on another successful running of the FIM Awards Ceremony, FIM President Jorge Viegas said: “To be able to celebrate this occasion in the FIM’s home country for the very first time and to have every 2025 FIM World Champions in attendance has cemented this edition of the FIM Awards to be one of the best we have enjoyed in the fifteen year history of this unique event.

“This very special evening has only been possible thanks to the support of the Canton of Vaud, the City of Lausanne and Swiss Moto, plus all the other stakeholders who have been able to join us to celebrate our collective achievements on and off the track this year.

“Each and every champion who has taken to the stage has earned and been totally worthy of the gold medal they have collected from our legends and special guests who were on hand to present these awards. The evening was brought to the perfect close by being able to present the new FIM Sporting Trophy to Marc Marquez who produced one of the greatest sporting comebacks ever this season.

“Finally on behalf of the FIM I would like to thank everyone who has been part of our successes during 2025, I truly hope together we can make 2026 even better.”

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The FIM (Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme) founded in 1904, is the governing body for motorcycle sport and the global advocate for motorcycling. The FIM is an independent association formed by 123 National Federations throughout the world. It is recognised as the sole competent authority in motorcycle sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Among its 50 FIM World Championships the main events are MotoGP, Superbike, Endurance, Motocross, Supercross, SuperMoto, Trial, Enduro, Cross-Country, Speedway and E-Bikes. Furthermore, the FIM is also active and involved in the following areas: public affairs, road safety, touring, and protection of the environment. The FIM was the first international sports federation to impose an Environmental Code in 1994.