{"id":334264,"date":"2025-12-08T05:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334264\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T05:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:27:07","slug":"marc-marquez-receives-surprise-fim-trophy-for-motogp-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334264\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez receives surprise FIM trophy for MotoGP comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Marquez was presented with the 2025 MotoGP World Champion\u2019s gold medal during the annual FIM Awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>But the evening in Lausanne, Switzerland, also delivered a final surprise.<\/p>\n<p>As the event drew to a close, the Spaniard was called back to the stage and handed the new &#8216;FIM Sporting Trophy&#8217; by President Jorge Viegas, who praised the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati Lenovo <\/a>rider for producing \u201cone of the greatest sporting comebacks ever\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The inscription on the trophy read: &#8216;Excellence through resilience, courage and tenacity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez fought his way back to the top of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> after five gruelling years marked by career-threatening arm and eye injuries, a departure from long-time employer Honda, a new start at Gresini and finally a championship-winning move to the factory Ducati team.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach and every champion who has taken to the stage has earned and been totally worthy of the gold medal they have collected,\u201d Viegas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evening was brought to the perfect close by being able to present the new FIM Sporting Trophy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a>, who produced one of the greatest sporting comebacks ever this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed by former double World Superbike champion James Toseland on the red carpet, Marquez reflected:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a long time, five years, but I am super happy to be back at the FIM Awards. It means the season has been super good, and it is also very nice to meet mates from other disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he was prouder of the injury comeback or world championship itself, Marquez replied:<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say the comeback. It was the most challenging thing in my career. The most difficult thing. It is something that I have been fighting a lot these last years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was something that also, at some points, I saw as nearly impossible. But we did it. We came back. And we closed that comeback with the championship, which was the most important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marquez dominated the 2025 season to secure a ninth premier-class crown with five rounds remaining, although a shoulder injury meant he missed the closing events.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez was presented with the 2025 MotoGP World Champion\u2019s gold medal during the annual FIM Awards ceremony.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,8456,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-334264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ducati","11":"tag-ducati-lenovo-team","12":"tag-marc-marquez","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}