Jerez 2024.
Jerez 30th November and 1st December 2024.
6 Continental Teams. 19 Countries, 48 Riders Male & Female.
Two classes SSP & SSP300.
This will be the inauguration of the FIM Intercontinental Games. The Games will bring all six continents together, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America and Oceania.
With forty-eight competitors from 19 countries that includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Thailand and the United States.
This biannual event will take the name of the hosting city.
The city of Jerez FIM Intercontinental Games will be organised with the support of la Junta de Andalucia.
The first games will be limited to Supersport 700 and Supersport 300 classes with Yamaha Europe the Official Partner providing R7 and R3 bikes. The series is intended to provide an international platform for young riders.
Dunlop will be the official supplier and will provide racing service for the competition.
BETA UTENSILI will support the Continental Unions with their professional mechanical tools and toolboxes.
Riders will be wearing their Continents team colours with electronic airbag suits supplied by SPIDI.
XPD will supply boots, Airoh will provide the riders with their FIM Racing homologated GP 800 helmets and the official supplier for fuel will be Panta Racing Fuel.
The eight riders will take part in both classes, four in each class.
To keep up with FIM’s ongoing commitment to diversity, each class must have at least one female rider.
They tell us that The Intercontinental Games will benefit from exceptional TV coverage supported by the FIM circuit racing promoters Dorna, Warner Bros, Discovery (WBD) and Sports Europe will broadcast the series on their digital platforms.
The series will have four races, two per class: R7 & R3.
Points will be awarded to each rider based on their ranking and that will be added to the other team members points to determine which CONU will be crowned as the first winner of the Games.
Jorge Viegas, the FIM President first proposed the idea of an ICG to the FIM Board of directors in 2002.
“As the date for the first-ever FIM InterContinental Games draws closer the sense of anticipation is growing stronger and stronger. It is very exciting to be bringing together all six FIM Continental Unions in the FIM’s one-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary year and to have riders from across the world competing underlines a very real sense of unity. I am confident that this is just the beginning and that the ICG will continue to develop and grow.”
The Games will expand to other disciplines that may include Motocross and Enduro as the event becomes established.
Team Africa will consist of an all South African line-up.
Ruche Moodley
Chris Wright
Taigh Janse van Rensburg
Abigail Bosson
Clint Seller
Dino Iozzo
Leungo Gaorekwe
Nicole van Aswegen
And team manager, Damion Purificati.
Jerez 30th November and 1st December 2024.
