Dimitri Bergé
Born (1996-02-05) 5 February 1996
Marmande, France
NationalityFrench
Career history
Great Britain
2014–2015Glasgow
2015, 2018Redcar
2016Sheffield
2017Berwick
2018–2019Belle Vue
Poland
2022–2023Landshut
2024Krosno
Sweden
2020–2021Masarna
2022Lejonen
2023Rospiggarna
Denmark
2021Fjelsted
Individual honours
2019World Longtrack Champion
2023French national Champion
2018European Grasstrack Champion
Team honours
2018, 2019World Longtrack Team champion

Dimitri Bergé (born 5 February 1996) is a motorcycle speedway rider from France.

Career

Bergés' major honours include the 2009 125cc Grasstrack and the World 250cc Longtrack Champion 2012. He was a World Under-21 finalist in 2016 and 2017 and represented France in the 2018 Speedway of Nations.

As well as Speedway he is an accomplished Long Track rider and won a bronze medal in the 2015 Individual Long Track World Championship. He won the first round in Herxheim, Germany and finished runner-up overall[1] in the 2018 Individual Long Track World Championship. He was also a member of the France team who won the Team Long Track World Championship for the first time in front of their ecstatic fans in Morizes on 1 September 2018 scoring 22 of France's 54 points winning total. Dimitri has also represented his native France in the Speedway of Nations.

He rode for the Redcar Bears having joined them in 2018.[2] He signed for Belle Vue Aces for the 2018 and 2019 seasons.

In 2019, he was part of the French team, along with Mathieu Trésarrieu and David Bellego, that won the 2019 Team Long Track World Championship.[3]

In 2023, he was part of the French team that competed at the 2023 Speedway World Cup in Poland[4] and he also won his first French Individual Speedway Championship.[5][6]

Family

His father Philippe Bergé was also an international speedway rider.[7]

Major results

Individual Long Track World Championship

Year GP Points Pos GP Wins GP Podiums
201312211
2014DNC
20154643rd2
201658152
2017DNC
201851082nd13
201951211st14

Best Grand-Prix results

Team Long Track World Championship

European Grasstrack Championship

  • 2018 France Tayac (Champion) 19pts

Speedway of Nations

Year Riders Round Points Pos
2018Rode with David BellegoRO145th
2019Rode with David Bellego & Gaetan StellaRO164th

References

  1. "Home | FIM".
  2. "Bears bring in two". redcarbears.co.
  3. "World Longtrack Championship". GrasstrackGB. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  4. "WELCOME TO SWC". FIM. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  5. Christian Weber (1 November 2023). "Speedway from around the globe". Speedway Star.
  6. "CHAMPIONNAT DE FRANCE DE SPEEDWAY" (PDF). Moto Federation Francoise. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  7. "Dimitri Bergé profile". Sheffield Speedway. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
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