Who's in the Teams
MX des Nations 2015
When Italy named it’s 2015 Motocross des Nations team, everybody in the sport just stood back in silence. No Cairoli. No Phillipaerts. No Guarneri. No Lupino. Instead the Italian team will be Samuele Bernardini (24th in 250 GP points), Michele Cervellin (11th in EMX 250 points) and Ivo Monticelli (19th in 250 GP points). However, every team has issues. AMA Champion Ryan Dungey refused to race the MXDN this year. Kevin Strijbos, Clement Desalle and Ken DeDycker are all injured for Belgium. Ken Roczen says he won’t race on the German team because he wants to heal up from minor surgery on August 31. Luckily for Germany, Max Nagl has recovered from his broken ankle and is back racing. Arnaud Tonus is signed up for the Swiss team, but hasn’t raced much in 2015 because of a lingering illness (they already named an alternate to take his place just in case). Davy Pootjes has been replaced on the Dutch MXDN team by Nick Kouwenberg. Ken De Dycker, who has spent most of the 2015 season injured, will replaced Kevin Strijbos on Team Belgium. No matter how you look at it, it’s hard to imagine a Motocross des Nations without Cairoli, Dungey, Desalle, Stribos or Roczen, but get used to it. Here are the teams named so far.
USA
Justin Barcia
Jeremy Martin
Cooper Webb
HOLLAND
Brian Bogers
Nick Kouwenberg
Glenn Coldenhoff
FRANCE
Gautier Paulin
Marvin Musquin
Romain Febvre
GERMANY
Max Nagl
Henry Jacobi
Dennis Ullrich
GREAT BRITAIN
Shaun Simpson
Max Antie
Dean Wilson
IRELAND
Graeme Irwin
Martin Barr
Stuart Edmonds
NEW ZEALAND
Ben Townley
Kayne Lamont
Cody Cooper
AUSTRALIA
Todd Waters
Jay Wilson
Dean Ferris
JAPAN
Makoto Ogata
Toshiki Tomita
Yohei Kojima
BRAZIL
Thales Vilardi
Fabinho Santos
Jean Ramos
SWITZERLAND
Valentin Guillod
Jeremy Seewer
Arnaud Tonus (or Andy Baumgartner)
FINLAND
Jere Haavisto
Miro Sihvonen
Valtteri Malin
SPAIN
Jose Butron
Ander Valentin
Jorge Zaragoza
BELGIUM
Jeremy Van Horebeek
Julien Lieber
Ken De Dycker
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jaromir Romancik
Filip Neugebauer
Martin Michek
LITHUANIA
Nerijus Rukstela
Vytautas Bucas
Arminas Jasikonis
PUERTO RICO
Juan Reyes
Michael Leib
Jason Astudillo
LATVIA
Davis Ivanovs
Pauls Jonass
Matiss Karro
DENMARK
Nikolaj Larsen
Thomas Kjer Olsen
Stefan Kjer Olsen
PORTUGAL
Rui Goncalves
Sandro Peixe
Hugo Basaula
SWEDEN
Filip Bengtsson
Alvin Ostlund
Jesper Jonsson
ESTONIA
Tanel Leok
Harri Kullas
Gert Krestinov
ITALY
Samuele Bernardini
Michele Cervellin
Ivo Monticelli
RUSSIA
Evgeny Bobryshev
Vsevolod Brylyakov
Ivan Baranov
VENEZUELA
Carlos Badiali
Hector Rodriquez
Lorenzo Locurcio
POLAND
Kukasz Lonka
Gabriel Chetnicki
Tomasz Wysocki
SLOVENIA
Klemen Gercar
Peter Irt
Tim Gajser
SLOVAKIA
Martin Kohut
Richard Sikyna
Tomas Simko
LUXEMBOURG
Eric Tabouraing
Danile Casoli
Bjorn Frank
AUSTRIA
Lukas Neurauter
Pascal Rauchenecker
Gunter Schmidinger
GREECE
Panagiotis Kouzis
Ionnis Touratzidis
Dimitrios Kontoletas
CROATIA
Marko Leljak
Matija Kelava
Matej Jaros
NORWAY
Henrik Wahl
Magne Klingsheim
Lasse Christofferson
UKRAINE
Roman Morozov
Dymtro Asmanov
Volodymir Tarsov
MOROCCO
Abdelhalim Soulimani
Said El Mejjad
Houmame Gabari
