Toni Bou – the knowns and the unknowns

Toni Bou has won the individual FIM Trial World Championship consecutively from 2007 to 2015 (9 titles) and the FIM X-Trial from 2007 to 2016 (10 titles).

• In addition to the individual titles there are the 12 FIM Trial De Naciones titles. Bou has participated with Spain in the Trial de Naciones consecutively since 2005. Adding six titles for Trial de Naciones Indoor makes an impressive total tally of 38 championship titles.
• Toni Bou has been on the podium 61 times consecutively.
• The longest winning spell went from the 2014 season to 2015, when the Spaniard achieved eleven back-to-back triumphs.
• The season with the highest number of victories was 2015 with 13. It was also last season when Bou accumulated the highest number of points – 345 – in the year with the highest number of races held (18).
• Statistics: In 98% of Toni Bou’s participations in the world championship he has finished in the top 15. He has achieved a 70.5% podium rate and 47.5% of the 183 trials which the Spaniard has disputed have ended with a victory.
• Which is Toni Bou’s top country? The Repsol Honda Team rider has won 14 times in both Japan and Great Britain. In Spain he has finished on the top step of the podium on 12 occasions.
• Only one country remains elusive: Switzerland. Having only disputed two trials there in 2004 – his second year in the world championship – Bou finished 4th and 7th.
• Toni Bou made his debut in the world championship in Ireland in 2003 at 16 years, 5 months and 18 days of age.
• His first world championship title came – as the ‘El Mago’ Helenio Herrera, famous football coach, once put it “without getting out of the car” – between the Czech Republic GP and the Great Britain GP. The cancellation of the 2007 Belgian GP mathematically sealed victory for Bou who sported a forty point advantage going into the trial at Hawkstone Park.
• Toni Bou was the third youngest rider ever to be proclaimed world champion (at Hawkstone Park, England) with 20 years, 9 months and 11 days of age. Only Frenchman Gilles Burgat (1981, 19 years 10 months and 4 days) and American Bernie Schreiber (1979, 20 years, 20 months and 26 days) are the only two to have taken the title at a younger age.

Dates on which Toni Bou sealed the tenth world championship (outdoor) titles:
29/7/2007 Hawkstone Park (GBR)
21/9/2008 Castellolí (SPA)
13/9/2009 Isola 2000 (FRA)
25/7/2010 Foppolo (ITA)
4/9/2011 Isola 2000 (FRA)
8/7/2012 Sto. Stefano d’Aveto (ITA)
1/9/2013 Isola 2000 (FRA)
7/9/2014 Arnedo (SPA)
6/9/2015 Paços de Ferreira (POR)
3/9/2016 San Pietro Mussolino (ITA)

Dates on which Toni Bou sealed the tenth world championship (indoor) titles:
26/2/2007 Mahón (SPA)
16/3/2008 Madrid (SPA)
27/2/2009 Bolzano (ITA)
28/3/2010 Palma de Mallorca (SPA)
12/3/2011 Madrid (SPA)
17/3/2012 Milán (ITA)
23/3/2013 Bielefeld (GER)
16/3/2014 Milán (ITA)
15/3/2015 Wienner Neustadt (AUT)
26/3/2016 Marsella (FRA)