Teams from across Europe will go into battle this coming Saturday (13 September) when the 2025 FIM Long Track of Nations (LToN) powered by Anlas, Kineo and HKC Koopmann is staged at Vechta in north-west Germany.

  • Germany defend FIM Long Track of Nations crown on home ground
  • French team aim to emulate their 2019 victory at Vechta
  • Strong Dutch line-up combines youth and experience

The day after the sport’s brightest young stars are due to go head-to-head in the third edition of the FIM Long Track Under 23 World Cup, action in the outdoor Reiterwaldstadion Vechta will resume with riders from seven nations coming together to determine which country has the right to call itself the sport’s undisputed number one for the next twelve months.

The competition was dominated last season by ten-time winners Germany, but the reigning champions are fielding a dramatically different team this time around with only Lukas Fienhage from their victorious 2024 side returning to defend the title in front of a home crowd.

Fienhage has the honour of being team Captain and has been in fantastic form this season. Currently leading the FIM Long Track World Championship with one round remaining, the three-time LToN winner is joined in the side by the hugely experienced pairing of Jörg Tebbe and Stephan Katt – both multi-time LToN champions – and Mario Niedermeier who is making his debut in the competition.

Runners up last year and champions in 2018 and again in 2019 when the event was last staged at Vechta, the French side features two changes to the team that won silver on home ground in Morizès in 2024 with Captain Mathias Trésarrieu and Jordan Dubernard – who finished first and second in the FIM Long Track Challenge earlier this month – returning for another attempt at the title alongside Tino Bouin and Anthony Chauffour.

Great Britain, champions in 2015, finished third last season and for 2025 field an almost unchanged line-up. Captained by Chris Harris who will once again be joined by Zach Wajtknecht and veteran Andrew Appleton, the British quartet is completed by exciting young racer Cameron Taylor.

Finland have never won the LToN and field an unchanged team from last year, led by forty-one-year-old Captain Tero Aarnio with support from Henri Ahlbom and Jesse Mustonen, while their near neighbours Denmark combine experience with youth with Kenneth Kruse Hansen as Captain alongside Jacob Bukhave and seventeen-year-old sensation Patrick Kruse.

With their best-ever finish of second coming in 2022, the last time the event was staged in Germany, the Czech Republic were fifth last season and are once again represented by Jan Macek, Daniel Klima and Captain Hynek Stichauer who will be joined in Vechta by Jan Hlacina.

The only other nation in action that have won the LToN, the Netherlands – champions in 2013, 2016 and 2023 – struggled last season, but this year return with three of the four riders who took the title on home ground two years ago in Roden.

Captained by Mika Meijer, the only returning rider from 2024, the powerful Dutch team also features Romano Hummel – the 2021 FIM Long Track World Champion – and Dave Meijerink, who both helped their country to gold in 2022 alongside Meijer, as well as talented newcomer William Kruit.

The action in the Reiterwaldstadion Vechta is scheduled to get under way at 19:30 (local time).
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