Toni Bou

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 eleven 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.

With a new engine in his Montesa Cota 4RT and the resulting adaptation curve in a World Champion with included new non-stop rules – that do not allow stopping in the areas before facing a new obstacle-, Bou shone again in the 2013 Outdoor Championship and achieved the title for the seventh season in a row. After a close fight with Adam Raga, the championship’s outcome was decided in the last round, after gathering 7 wins, 4 second places and 2 third position. At 26, the Repsol rider achieved the impressive amount of 14 consecutive World Championship titles –7 Outdoor and 7 in X-Trial–, beating the record set by Dougie Lampkin.

In 2014, Toni Bou’s ambition is still intact and he has proved it by winning the first of the two World Championships of the season. One round before the end of the Championship, the Repsol rider has taken his 15th World Championship -8th in the Indoor category- with a perfect performance, as he has won the five rounds of the series. A success that allowed him to increase to 26 his consecutive Indoor victories.

After achieving his eighth Indoor World Championship, Toni Bou did not failed in the Outdoor World Championship either. The Repsol Honda Team rider won the World Championship in the last round of the season held in La Rioja. With this new success, the rider from Piera wrote yet another golden page of this sport’s history, by beating Dougie Lampkin and Jordi Tarrés -both with 7 outdoor titles-.

Bou showed great consistency during the whole championship, as he did not step down from the second step of the podium (even when he suffered a rib injury at the Japan GP). Those impressive results allowed him to secure his 16th World Championship (8 Indoor and 8 Outdoor), all of them consecutive.