Toni Bou

Toni Bou

Date of birth: 17/12/1986 Birthplace: Piera – Catalunya – Spain Weight: 75 kg Height: 175 cm Years as Repsol rider: 7 (including 2013)

Honours

First championship: Catalan Trial Championship (junior)
First World Championship podium: Germany 2005
First World Championship victory: Galicia 2006
World Championship titles: 6 Indoor, 6 Outdoor

Sporting career

Biography

Born on October 17, 1986 and living in Piera (Barcelona), Toni Bou started as a Bike Trial rider when he was eight. After winning the World Championship of his category, in 1999 he took the leap to the motorbike Trial.

Immersed in the motorcycling category, in 2001 he took the Junior Spanish Championship, a title that was followed by the 250cc European Cup for young stars in 2002 and the European Championship in 2003. In 2005 he was part of the team that won the Trial des Nations, was runner-up in the Trial Indoor Spanish Championship and fifth in the Outdoor World Championship.
The next year, Bou achieved his first wins in the highest class, both in the Indoor class (third in the World Championship) and the Outdoor class, where he finished again in fifth position of the World Championship classification.

After joining the ranks of the Repsol Montesa Honda team in the 2007 season, the rider from Piera dominated the Indoor World Championship. With a Montesa Cota 4RT, Toni Bou won four of the eight rounds that formed the Indoor calendar. The great level he showed placed him among the favourites to won the Trial Outdoor World Championship, that he also won after taking nine victories from the eleven rounds of the Championship. The icing of the cake was the Repsol rider’s victory in the Indoor Spanish Championship and his third consecutive win as a member of the Spanish team in the Trial des Nations.

The following year the Repsol rider repeated his title in the Indoor World Championship and, after seven wins and five second positions in the Outdoor Championship, Bou was again absolute King of the discipline for the second year in a row. To close the season, he took again the Trial des Nations win with Spain and was once more Trial Indoor Spanish Champion.

With a level ever higher, Toni Bou took again the title in 2009 of the Indoor and Outdoor Trial World Championships. He won four rounds indoor from the five that took place and seven outdoor from the eleven that formed the calendar. He finished the season winning the outdoor and indoor Spanish Championships and achieving a fifth victory in the Trial des Nations with the Spanish team. An amazing season in which he won the five titles he was fighting to get.

The Repsol rider started the 2010 season without lowering his level one bit and achieving his two main targets of the year: to repeat for the fourth year in a row the victory in the World Championships, both indoor and outdoor. Four wins and one second position in the five rounds of the 2010 indoor Championship confirmed his crushing dominance of the class. With his seventh victory in ten rounds of the Outdoor Championship, Toni Bou took his fourth consecutive title, closing the year with a new Indoor Spanish Title and as runner-up of the Outdoor Spanish Championship.

The rider from Piera faced the 2011 season with the maximum ambition and competitiveness to defend his number one. Thanks to his talent and the support of his team, the Repsol Montesa Honda, Toni Bou had a faultless year: in march he added a new title to the X-Trial, Indoor Trial after winning the six rounds of the calendar. In September the Repsol rider obtained a new Outdoor title, his tenth consecutive World Championship.

After taking his sixth X-Trial FIM World Championship with winning all rounds last march, the Repsol rider was unbeatable in the second half of the World Championship season. In the outdoor discipline, Bou achieved fantastic results that allowed him to also take his sixth outdoor World title, two rounds before the end of the series. With the two 2012 titles, Bou achieves, at only 25, the amazing number of 12 World Championship crowns, all of them consecutive, thus tied with Dougie Lampkin’s record, who achieved seven Outdoor and five Indoor titles.

The next challenge for the Repsol rider in 2012 will be the two Spanish Trial Championships. After the four round held outdoor, Bou will have two new rounds to recover the only point that separates him from the lead of the Championship. The Repsol rider will be able to finish the season with the National Indoor series, which have not started yet.