Many countries have already announced their line-ups for the upcoming Motocross of Nations – the often-called ‘Olympic Games of Motocross’ – and now we have Team Spain to add to our list.
Leading the way for Spain will be defending MXGP world champion Jorge Prado, with Oriol Oliver in the MX2 class and Rubén Fernández in the MXGP class.
Spain finished seventh at the MXoN in France last year.
But we still await the host nation, Team GB (10th in 2023) – the squad to represent the three countries that make up the three countries of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) – and also the naming of riders to represent Italy (third last year), Slovenia (9th in 2023), Estonia, Finland, Chile, Ireland, Guam, Mexico, Croatia, Puerto Rico, Poland, Morocco, Luxembourg, Ukraine, Greece and Norway, for example.
There are obviously plenty of other countries, besides these ones, who could still enter the event, but the nations we’ve listed here were among the 37 countries that did race the MXoN last season and could reasonably be expected to also show up this time around too.
Set for Matterley Basin, near Winchester, in England, on the weekend of October 4-6, this year’s 77th edition of the Motocross of Nations (MXoN) will be, as always, the biggest and best motocross event on the world calendar.
The top five nations at the MXoN at Ernee, in France, last season were France, Australia, Italy, Germany and Belgium, with Team New Zealand finishing 14th.
Here we have a list of entries so far for the MXoN 2024:
France (winners in 2023): Romain Febvre, Maxime Renaux and Tom Vialle.
Australia (2nd in 2023): Jett Lawrence, Hunter Lawrence and Kyle Webster.
Germany (4th in2023): Ken Roczen, Simon Längenfelder and Max Nagl.
Belgium (5th in 2023): Sacha Coenen, Lucas Coenen and Liam Everts.
Switzerland (6th in 2023): Jeremy Seewer, Arnaud Tonus and Valentin Guillod.
Spain (7th in 2023): Jorge Prado, Oriol Oliver and Rubén Fernández.
United States (8th in 2023): Chase Sexton, Aaron Plessinger and Chance Hymas.
The Netherlands: Jeffery Herlings, Kay de Wolf and Calvin Vlaanderen.
New Zealand: Brodie Connolly, Hamish Harwood and Josiah Natzke.
Japan: Haruki Yokoyama, Yuki Okura and Kainosuke Oshiro.
Brazil: Fabio Santos, Enzo Lopes and Bernardo Tiburcio.
Denmark: Mikkel Haarup, Mads Fresoe and Nicolai Skovbjerg.
Latvia: Karlis Reisulis, Mairis Pumpurs and Edvards Bidzans.
Ireland: Cole McCullough, Martin Barr and Jason Meara.
South Africa: Tristan Purdon, Camden McLellan and Cameron Durow.
Czech Republic: Petr Polak, Julius Mikula and Jakub Terešák.
Austria: Michael Sandner, Michael Kratzer and Marcel Stauffer.
Lithuania: Domantas Jazdauskas, Marius Adomaitis and Erlanda Mackonis.
Canada: Dylan Wright, Kaven Benoit and Jess Pettis.
Portugal: Luis Outeiro, Sandro Lobo and Paulo Alberto.
Venezuela: Anthony Rodriguez, Lorenzo Locurcio and Daniel Bortolin.
Iceland: Mani Pétursson, Eiour Palmarsson and Alexander Kuc.
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