Clément Desalle


Clément Desalle is a Belgian professional motocross racer. He has competed in the MXGP class of the Motocross World Championships since 2006. Desalle has placed amongst the top three competitors in the world championships on six occasions.

Motocross career

Born in La Louvière, Belgium, Desalle began competing in the premier MXGP class as soon as he became a professional racer in 2009. In his fourth season of competition, he won his first Grand Prix race in the Czech Republic and placed third in the 2009 FIM Motocross World Championship season riding for the LS Motors-Honda team. Between 2010 and 2013 would rank either second or third in the motocross world championships while riding for the Teka-Suzuki team run by Sylvain Geboers with former motocross world champion Eric Geboers as the team manager. Desalle was also a member of the victorious Belgian 2013 Motocross des Nations team that included Ken De Dycker and Jeremy Van Horebeek.
He joined the Kawasaki factory racing team in 2016.

GP wins

2003: 9th 125cc French cadet class
2004: 9th 125cc French Junior class
2005: 5th 125cc Junior world championship

9th 125cc European championship
2006: 25th MX1 world championship

8th MX1 German championship
2007: 20th MX1 world championship

5th MX1 German championship
2008: 11th MX1 world championship

2nd MX1 German championship
2009: 3rd MX1 world championship

Pro open Belgian champion
2010: 2nd MX1 world championship
2011: 3rd MX1 world championship
2012: 2nd MX1 world championship
2013: 2nd MX1 world championship
2014: 4th MXGP world championship
2015: 10th MXGP world championship
2016: 8th MXGP world championship
2017: 4th MXGP world championship
2018: 3rd MXGP world championship
2019: 14th MXGP world championship