Jānis Mārtiņš Reišulis (born 25 March 2008) is a Latvian professional Motocross racer. Reišulis has competed full-time in the Motocross World Championship since the 2026 season. Reišulis is a two-time European Motocross Champion.
Reišulis has represented his country at the Motocross des Nations on two occasions and is scheduled to make his third appearance at the 2026 event.
Alongside picking up his European titles in the EMX125 and EMX250 classes, Reišulis has also won national championships at 125cc level in Germany, The Netherlands and his native Latvia.
Reišulis is the younger brother of Kārlis Reišulis, who is also a world-championship level motocross racer. The pair have spent several years as teammates whilst racing in the MXGP paddock.
Career Junior career After starting in the sport at a young age, Reišulis progressed through the junior ranks in Latvia and around Europe. He competed in the EMX65 class of the 2018 European Motocross Championship, where he finished seventh overall.
In 2021, Reišulis became Latvian champion in the MX85 class and finished as runner-up in the EMX85 class of the 2021 European Motocross Championship, qualifying on pole at the event and winning second race. He also represented Latvia at the 2021 FIM Motocross Junior World Championship, finishing fourteenth overall in the 85 class. Reišulis stepped up to ride three rounds of the EMX125 class towards the end of the season, marking his debut on a 125cc motorcycle. Despite his young age he adapted to the change well, comfortably scoring points and showing further potential by recording a second place race finish.
Staying with the Latvian KTM Motofavorīts team, Reišulis joined his older brother in a full-time campaign for the EMX125 class of the 2022 European Motocross Championship. At the opening round he grabbed his first overall podium, by finishing third. At the third round, on home soil in Latvia, Reišulis took his first race win and in doing so registered a win in the EMX125 class before his older brother. Across the remaining rounds he took two further race wins and his first overall round victory at the deep sand track of Lommel. Third in the final EMX125 standings was coupled with second at the FIM Junior World Championship, where he won the second race. His breakthrough season in 2022 was capped off with him picking up three 125cc national titles. As well as successfully defending his Latvian title, he took the Junior Cup 125 class in the ADAC MX Masters and the 125cc class in the Dutch Masters of Motocross.
With his older brother moving up to the EMX250 class, Reišulis moved to replace him in Yamaha's official EMX125 team for the 2023 European Motocross Championship. Following his strong results in the previous season, Reišulis was the favourite to take the EMX125 title, although once the series was underway he did have to fend off the challenge of Mathis Valin. Out of nine rounds, Reišulis took seven overall wins and twelve individual race wins to become European champion by 60 points over the Frenchman. At the FIM Junior World Championship in Romania however, the roles were reversed, with the Latvian picking up the silver medal for the second year running in the 125 class. Reišulis also successfully defended his Dutch Masters 125cc title in 2023, making him a back-to-back champion in the series.
At the age of fifteen, Reišulis was selected to represent Latvia at the 2023 Motocross des Nations, in the MX2 class. Making his debut on a 250cc motorcycle at the event, he finished his qualifying race in fifteenth, before retiring from his first main race and finishing outside the top-twenty and a lap down in the other.
MX2 2024 Following his successful 2024 season, Reišulis was promoted to Yamaha's official team to compete in the EMX250 class. After a strong start to the season at the opening round in Spain, he picked up a knee injury that ruled him out for the rest of 2024, curtailing his rookie season on a 250cc motorcycle.
2025 Retained by the official Yamaha team for the 2025 European Motocross Championship, Reišulis would make up for the missed 2024 season by winning five of the thirteen contested EMX250 rounds. With ten individual race wins to his name, Reišulis would overcome a strong challenge from Noel Zanócz to become European champion. Reišulis also entered the MX2 class at the MXGP of Germany, but ultimately did not start either of the races and so missed out on his Motocross World Championship debut. At the end of the season, Reišulis was named in the Latvian team for the 2025 Motocross des Nations. After finishing his qualifying race in ninth, he finished twenty-seventh and seventeenth in the main races, as the team finished ninth overall.
2026 Reišulis made his full-time world championship debut in the MX2 class of the 2026 FIM Motocross World Championship, joining the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory team.
Honours FIM Motocross Junior World Championship 125: 2022 & 2023 European Motocross Championship EMX250: 2025 EMX125: 2023 , 2022 EMX85: 2021 ADAC MX Masters Junior Cup 125: 2022 Dutch Masters of Motocross 250cc: 2026 125cc: 2022 & 2023 Latvian Motocross Championship MX85: 2021
Career statistics Motocross des Nations YearLocationNationClassTeammatesTeam OverallIndividual Overall 2023 Ernée MX2 Pauls JonassKārlis Reišulis 12th 19th 2025 Ironman MX2 Kārlis ReišulisPauls Jonass 9th 10th
FIM Motocross World Championship By season SeasonClassNumberMotorcycleTeamRaceRace WinsOverall WinsRace Top-3Overall PodiumPtsPlcd 2025 MX2 772 Yamaha VHR VRT Yamaha Official EMX250 Team 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A Total 0 0 0 0 0 0
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