Belgian motorcycle racer

Clément Desalle (born 19 May 1989) is a Belgian former professional motocross racer. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 2006 to 2020. Desalle raced in the premier 450cc cl* for his entire motocross career, finishing second four times, third twice and fourth twice.

Contents

• 1 Motocross career
• 2 GP wins
• 3 Season results
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Motocross career

Born in La Louvière, Belgium, Desalle began competing in the premier MXGP cl* as soon as he became a professional racer in 2006. In his fourth season of compe*ion, he won his first Grand Prix race in the Czech Republic and placed third in the 2009 FIM Motocross World Championship season riding for the LS Motors-Honda team. Between 2010 and 2013 would rank either second or third in the motocross world championships while riding for the Teka-Suzuki team run by Sylvain Geboers with former motocross world champion Eric Geboers as the team manager. Desalle was also a member of the victorious Belgian 2013 Motocross des Nations team that included Ken De Dycker and Jeremy Van *beek.

He joined the Kawasaki factory racing team in 2016. Descale announced his retirement in 2020 after 15 seasons.

GP wins

• Loket (Czech Republic) 9 August 2009
• Canelinha (Brazil) 13 September 2009
• Agueda (Portugal) 9 May 2010
• Kegums (Latvia) 27 June 2010
• Fermo (Italy) 12 September 2010
• Sevlievo (Bulgaria) 10 April 2011
• Glen Helen (USA) 15 May 2011
• Agueda (Portugal) 12 June 2011
• Loket (Czech Republic) 7 August 2011
• Agueda (Portugal) 10 June 2012
• Uddevalla (Sweden) 1 July 2012
• Losail (Qatar) 2 March 2013
• Loket (Czech Republic) 4 August 2013
• Bastogne (Belgium) 18 August 2013
• Matterley Basin (Great Britain) 25 August 2013
• Arco di Trento (Trentino) 13 April 2014
• Talavera de la Reina (Spain) 11 May 2014
• St. Jean d'Angely (France) 1 June 2014
• Teutschenthal (Germany) 22 June 2014
• *en (Netherlands) 28 August 2016
• Ernée (France) 28 May 2017
• Orlyonok (Russia) 11 June 2017
• Orlyonok (Russia) 1 May 2018

Season results

2003: 9th 125cc French cadet cl*

2004: 9th 125cc French Junior cl*

2005: 5th 125cc Junior world championship
9th 125cc European championship

2006: 25th MX1 world championship
8th MX1 German championship

2007: 20th MX1 world championship
5th MX1 German championship

2008: 11th MX1 world championship
2nd MX1 German championship

2009: 3rd MX1 world championship
Pro open Belgian champion

2010: 2nd MX1 world championship

2011: 3rd MX1 world championship (missed three rounds due to injury)

2012: 2nd MX1 world championship

2013: 2nd MX1 world championship

2014: 4th MXGP world championship

2015: 10th MXGP world championship

2016: 8th MXGP world championship

2017: 4th MXGP world championship

2018: 3rd MXGP world championship

2019: 14th MXGP world championship (missed 11 rounds due to injury)

References

External links

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