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Alexz Wigg

{{short description|British motorcycle racer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}

{{Infobox motorcycle rider

| name = Alexz Wigg

| image = 2008 SPEA FIM European Trial Motorcycle Championship, Bangor (5) - geograph.org.uk - 754771.jpg

| caption = 2008 SPEA FIM European Trial Motorcycle Championship, Bangor

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1989|11|11}}

| birth_place = Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England

| nationality = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} British

| death_date =

| death_place =

| Current team = Gas-Gas

| Bike number =

| website = [http://www.alexz-wigg.com/ Alexz Wigg official site]

}}

Alexz Wigg (born 11 November 1989), is an English International motorcycle trials rider.

Biography

Born in Aylesbury, United Kingdom, Wigg started riding at 4 years of age. He progressed through the schoolboy trials ranks and was European Youth Champion in 2004.{{cite web |url=http://www.gasgasuk.com/alexz-wigg-press-release/ |title=Gas Gas Youth Team |publisher=gasgasuk.com |accessdate=30 January 2015}} For 2006 Wigg rode a Gas Gas motorcycle and contested the Youth World Championships and European Junior Championships, emerging as winner of both titles.{{cite web |url=http://www.alexz-wigg.com/about-alexz |title=Alexz Wiggz Biography |publisher=www.alexzwiggs.com |accessdate=29 January 2015}} 2007 saw him finish runner up in the Junior World Championships. For the 2008 season he was again runner-up in the Junior World Championship, and that year also in the Junior European Championship. Wigg finally clinched the Junior World title in 2010, along with the European Title and a win at the famous Scottish Six Days Trial.{{cite web |url=http://www.g2fgroup.com/html/ssdt/html/SSDT11-280411.html |title=Wigg wins the Scottish |publisher=g2fgroup.com |accessdate=29 January 2015}} In 2011 he switched to riding for the Sherco factory team, contesting the FIM Trial World Championship. He hit problems mid-season and in 2012 he went back to riding in the world championships for the Gas Gas factory.{{cite web |url=http://www.gasgasuk.com/team-gallery |title=Gas-Gas Team 2015 |publisher=gasgasuk.com |accessdate=29 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118224720/http://www.gasgasuk.com/team-gallery/ |archive-date=18 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}

International Trials Championship Career

{{cite web|url=http://trialonline.org/01%20TRIAL.FIM/01.MONDE/101.INDEX.GENERAL/01%20101%20INDEX%20GENERAL.htm |title=FIM European Championship |publisher=trialonline.org |accessdate=26 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609165935/http://www.trialonline.org/01%20TRIAL.FIM/01.MONDE/101.INDEX.GENERAL/01%20101%20INDEX%20GENERAL.htm |archivedate=9 June 2016 }}

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!valign="middle"| Points

!valign="middle"| Pos

!valign="middle"| Notes

2006

|align="left"| FIM European Junior Championship

| Gas Gas

|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| SPA
2

|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| POR
3

|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| FRA
1

|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| ITA
1

|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| POL
1

|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| CZE
3

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|

|

|

|

| 107

| 1st

|European Junior Champion

2007

|align="left"| FIM European Championship

| Gas Gas

| SPA
15

| FRA
15

| ITA
15

| POL
10

| NOR
-

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 9

| 17th

|

2008

|align="left"| FIM European Championship

| Montesa

| IRL
4

| ITA
-

|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| POL
2

|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| CZE
2

|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| SWE
2

|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| POR
1

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 84

| 2nd

|

2009

|align="left"| FIM European Championship

| Beta

| POR
10

|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| ITA
3

|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| POL
1

|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| CZE
3

|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| SPA
2

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 73

| 3rd

|

2009

|align="left"| FIM World Championship

| Beta

| IRL
-

| IRL
-

| POR
-

| GBR
-

| GBR
-

| JAP
-

| JAP
-

| ITA
-

| AND
-

| SPA
10

| FRA
11

|

|

| 11

| 14th

|

2010

|align="left"| FIM European Championship

| Beta

|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| ITA
2

| SPA
4

|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| POL
1

|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| AND
2

|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| ITA
3

|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| CZE
1

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 97

| 1st

| European Champion

2010

|align="left"| FIM World Championship

| Beta

| SPA
12

| POR
13

| POR
12

| JAP
12

| JAP
12

| GBR
10

| GBR
10

| FRA
14

| RSM
12

| ITA
11

| CZE
9

|

|

| 49

| 12th

|

2011

|align="left"| FIM World Championship

| Sherco

|GER
13

| FRA
12

| FRA
11

| SPA
11

| AND
10

| ITA
15

| GBR
-

| JAP
-

| JAP
-

| FRA
-

| FRA
-

|

|

| 24

| 12th

|

2012

|align="left"| FIM World Championship

| Gas Gas

| FRA
13

| FRA
12

| AUS
13

| AUS
13

| JAP
8

| JAP
14

| SPA
12

| SPA
10

| AND
11

| AND
13

| ITA
14

| GBR
10

| GBR
8

| 57

| 11th

|

2014

|align="left"| FIM World Championship

| Gas Gas

| AUS
12

| AUS
11

| JAP
12

| JAP
-

| EUR
-

| EUR
12

| ITA
13

| BEL
12

| GBR
10

| GBR
13

| FRA
11

| SPA
13

| SPA
13

| 44

| 12th

|

Honors

  • FIM European Youth Champion 2004
  • FIM European Junior Champion 2006
  • FIM European Champion 2010

{{Motorcycle trials competition}}

Related Reading

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://www.alexz-wigg.com/ Alexz Wigg official site]

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Category:1989 births

Category:Living people

Category:English motorcycle racers

Category:Motorcycle trials riders

Category:Sportspeople from Aylesbury