About Erik Riss

Erik Riss (born 13 September 1995) is a German speedway, longtrack and grasstrack rider, who won the World Longtrack Championship in 2014 and 2016, and was German speedway champion in 2016.
Born in Memmingen, Germany, the son of former rider Gerd Riss and younger brother of Mark Riss, Erik Riss began his speedway career in 2012 and rode in his home country for Automobilclub Landshut from 2013, also riding in Germany for MSV Herxheim and AMC Memmingen.
He first had success in long track, winning the German championship in 2014. Later that year, at 19, he became the youngest rider ever to win the world championship. In the same year, he was part of the German teams that won the World Longtrack Team Championship and finished fourth in the European Junior Team Championship.[