Camden McLellan at the MXGP of Sweden went 3-3 across both motos in Uddevalla to take third overall, his fourth consecutive MX2 podium and the tenth of his career. Sacha Coenen won the day for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing ahead of Liam Everts.
MX2 Overall – Medal Table (MXGP of Sweden):
🥇 Sacha Coenen (KTM) – 50 points
🥈 Liam Everts (Husqvarna) – 44 points
🥉 Camden McLellan (Triumph) – 40 points
Glimminge Motorstadion is the oldest venue on the World Championship calendar, having hosted its first 500cc Grand Prix back in 1958, and it turned out one of the biggest crowds of the season — an attendance figure north of 28,000 packed onto the cliffsides above the circuit.
More sunshine than Saturday baked the hardpack surface even harder, leaving riders across every class fighting for traction on a slick track that punished anything careless.
That’s the context for what McLellan did here. This wasn’t a track that handed anybody anything.
Coenen took the Fox Holeshot Award in race one and held the inside line cleanly from Everts and Janis Reisulis, with Camden McLellan away well in fourth ahead of Simon Längenfelder.
Getting past Reisulis took patience. Camden McLellan made repeated attempts at the Latvian and couldn’t force the move until Reisulis ran wide at the first corner on lap 13 — an opening McLellan took immediately.
The top four ran within three seconds of each other at one stage, but Coenen held off a late charge from Everts, who set the fastest lap of the race on the penultimate circulation.
Race 1 (Top 3):
Sacha Coenen (KTM) – 33:45.306
Liam Everts (Husqvarna) – +1.264
Camden McLellan (Triumph) – +11.257
Coenen doubled up on the holeshot in race two, his 13th of the season and eight clear of anyone else in that table. Everts, Camden McLellan and Julius Mikula gave chase off the start.
McLellan’s afternoon nearly ended on the opening lap when Kay Karssemakers threw an ambitious move at him and crashed heavily over the handlebars, the Dutchman later pulling into pit lane with damage to either bike or body.
McLellan came through it untouched and settled into third, where he stayed.
Ahead of him, Coenen refused to buckle and Everts finished just under two and a half seconds back for the second time in a day, unable to find the mistake he needed.
Race 2 (Top 3):
Sacha Coenen (KTM) – 35:19.455
Liam Everts (Husqvarna) – +2.442
Camden McLellan (Triumph) – +9.849
Camden McLellan, Triumph Racing Factory Team:
“Third is not too bad, some good championship points and good vibes, and this weekend shows it is not over until it is really over.”
“Four podiums on the bounce on a track built to punish mistakes — that’s not luck, that’s a rider proving he belongs in this title fight!” – 🎙️Jay
The championship picture is where this result carries real weight. McLellan now sits third in the MX2 World Championship on 656 points, 16 clear of Längenfelder and 21 adrift of Coenen in second, with Triumph teammate Guillem Farres leading on 701.
MX2 World Championship Standings (Top 5):
Guillem Farres (Triumph) – 701 points
Sacha Coenen (KTM) – 677 points
Camden McLellan (Triumph) – 656 points
Simon Längenfelder (KTM) – 640 points
Liam Everts (Husqvarna) – 595 points
Farres arrived in Sweden with a 47-point buffer over Coenen and left with 24. The Spaniard rode the weekend with facial scarring from a heavy crash in Saturday’s Qualifying Race, was outside the top ten off the start in race one, and fought back to sixth, then went 12th to fourth in race two while setting the fastest lap of the day in the class.
That’s the gap McLellan is hunting from third, and it’s tightening with four rounds still to run.
The Uddevalla result also broke a streak that had nothing to do with the South African but everything to do with how hard this podium was to take. Längenfelder had never left Uddevalla without a podium before Sunday, and his fifth-place finish in race two ended that run. The German won Saturday’s Qualifying Race and still couldn’t convert it.
Triumph’s own season is running parallel to McLellan’s. The manufacturer leads the MX2 constructors’ standings on 807 points, nine ahead of KTM, chasing a first world title in the class.
Two riders in the championship top three is doing most of that work.
McLellan’s charge up the standings started properly at Lommel, where a perfect weekend in the sand lifted him into third overall in the series. Sweden’s hardpack was the opposite challenge and he handled it with the same finishing position both times out.
The consistency is the story. Ten career podiums, four of them consecutive, across surfaces that demand completely different skill sets.
Round 16 heads to Arnhem next weekend for the MXGP of the Netherlands, the last sand race on the 2026 calendar. Given what happened at Lommel, McLellan should be in the mix there.
There was one other South African note from Uddevalla. Calvin Vlaanderen went down hard at the first corner of MXGP race two after a tangle with home rider Isak Gifting, and although the Red Bull Ducati Factory Team man was sidelined for the rest of the race, he came away shaken rather than seriously hurt.
Four GPs remain. McLellan is 21 points off second and 45 off the championship lead, with two of his rivals separated by less than a race win.
It is not over until it is really over.
📸 Images via Camden McLellan – Triumph Racing / MXGP Uddevalla Sweden
