Takes: Every Supercross Champion in History

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I can be a stat nerd. For years, we had to rely on Cycle News coming to our mailboxes once a week just to get results. Now, we have multiple Twitter and Instagram accounts that do DEEP, DEEP dives into everything from lap times to number of holeshots to times people wore a certain gear. It’s refreshing, as for most of this sports history, we have been way behind other forms of motorsports. Don’t even get me started how far behind we are if we were to relate it to stick and ball sports.

In addition to content accounts on social, promoters have upped their game as well, with FELD and MX Sports putting more insight into the interesting statistics that make up this beautiful sport.

With a new season approaching, I, an AMA Media Member of the Year Nominee, will dig into some stats in this here column.

Starting with… EVERY SUPERCROSS CHAMP IN HISTORY! From the very first (Pierre Karsmakers) to the latest (Cooper Webb) are listed below.

You can scroll past all this if you so please, but here are some interesting tidbits before we dive into the full list:

Most 450 Supercross Championships

1: Jeremy McGrath – 7 titles (1993–1996, 1998–2000)

2: Ricky Carmichael – 5 titles (2001–2003, 2005–2006)

3: Ryan Villopoto – 4 titles (2011–2014)

3: Ryan Dungey – 4 titles (2010, 2015–2017)

Current Riders with Championships

Cooper Webb – 3 titles (2019, 2021, 2025)

Eli Tomac – 2 titles (2020, 2022)

Jett Lawrence – 1 title (2024)

Jason Anderson – 1 title (2018)

Riders with Multiple 125/250 East Titles

Tom Vialle – 2 (2024, 2025)

Chase Sexton – 2 (2019, 2020)

Zach Osborne – 2 (2017, 2018)

Justin Barcia – 2 (2011, 2012)

Christophe Pourcel – 2 (2009, 2010)

Mickael Pichon – 2 (1995, 1996)

Brian Swink – 2 (1991, 1992)

Riders with Multiple 125/250 West Titles

Dylan Ferrandis – 2 (2019, 2020)

Cooper Webb – 2 (2015, 2016)

Ivan Tedesco – 2 (2004, 2005)

Kevin Windham – 2 (1996, 1997)

Damon Huffman – 2 (1994, 1995)

Jeremy McGrath – 2 (1991, 1992)

Jeff Matiasevich – 2 (1988, 1989)

Riders to Win Both 125/250 & 250/450 Titles

Jeremy McGrath

Ricky Carmichael

James Stewart

Ryan Villopoto

Ryan Dungey

Chad Reed

Eli Tomac

Jason Anderson

Cooper Webb

Every Supercross Champion In History

Year	450	250 East	250 West
2025	Cooper Webb	Tom Vialle	Haiden Deegan
2024	Jett Lawrence	Tom Vialle	RJ Hampshire
2023	Chase Sexton	Hunter Lawrence	Jett Lawrence
2022	Eli Tomac	Jett Lawrence	Christian Craig
2021	Cooper Webb	Colt Nichols	Justin Cooper
2020	Eli Tomac	Chase Sexton	Dylan Ferrandis
2019	Cooper Webb	Chase Sexton	Dylan Ferrandis
2018	Jason Anderson	Zach Osborne	Aaron Plessinger
2017	Ryan Dungey	Zach Osborne	Justin Hill
2016	Ryan Dungey	Malcolm Stewart	Cooper Webb
2015	Ryan Dungey	Marvin Musquin	Cooper Webb
2014	Ryan Villopoto	Justin Bogle	Jason Anderson
2013	Ryan Villopoto	Wil Hahn	Ken Roczen
2012	Ryan Villopoto	Justin Barcia	Eli Tomac
2011	Ryan Villopoto	Justin Barcia	Broc Tickle
2010	Ryan Dungey	Christophe Pourcel	Jake Weimer
2009	James Stewart	Christophe Pourcel	Ryan Dungey
2008	Chad Reed	Trey Canard	Jason Lawrence
2007	James Stewart	Ben Townley	Ryan Villopoto
2006	Ricky Carmichael	Davi Millsaps	Grant Langston
2005	Ricky Carmichael	Grant Langston	Ivan Tedesco
2004	Chad Reed	James Stewart	Ivan Tedesco
2003	Ricky Carmicahel	Branden Jesseman	James Stewart
2002	Ricky Carmichael	Chad Reed	Travis Preston
2001	Ricky Carmichael	Travis Pastrana	Ernesto Fonseca
2000	Jeremy McGrath	Stephane Roncada	Shae Bentley
1999	Jeremy McGrath	Ernesto Fonseca	Nathan Ramsey
1998	Jeremy McGrath	Ricky Carmichael	John Dowd
1997	Jeff Emig	Tim Ferry	Kevin Windham
1996	Jeremy McGrath	Mickael Pichon	Kevin Windham
1995	Jeremy McGrath	Mickael Pichon	Damon Huffman
1994	Jeremy McGrath	Ezra Lusk	Damon Huffman
1993	Jeremy McGrath	Doug Henry	Jimmy Gaddis
1992	Jeff Stanton	Brian Swink	Jeremy McGrath
1991	Jean-Michel Bayle	Brian Swink	Jeremy McGrath
1990	Jeff Stanton	Denny Stephenson	Ty Davis
1989	Jeff Stanton	Damon Bradshaw	Jeff Matiasevich
1988	Rick Johnson	Todd DeHoop	Jeff Matiasevich
1987	Jeff Ward	Ron Tichenor	Willie Surratt
1986	Rick Johnson	Keith Turpin	Donny Schmit
1985	Jeff Ward	Eddie Warren	Bobby Moore
1984	Johnny O’Mara
1983	David Bailey
1982	Donnie Hansen
1981	Mark Barnett
1980	Mike Bell
1979	Bob Hannah
1978	Bob Hannah
1977	Bob Hannah
1976	Jim Weinert
1975	Jim Ellis
1974	Pierre Karsmakers