Steven Odendaal

Steven Odendaal is a motorcycle racer from South Africa and the 2021 World Supersport runner-up. He currently competes in the FIM Endurance World Championship with the BMW Motorrad EWC factory team.

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Career

Odendaal made a number of Moto2 World Championship appearances including a full season in with Team AGR Speed Up.
Odendaal won the South African national Super600 Championship in 2014 and 2015. In the European FIM CEV Repsol Championship, he finished 5th in 2014 and 4th in 2015 before claiming the title in 2016 in Portimão, Portugal, two rounds ahead of the season's final.
In 2017, Odendaal joined the Project NTS with a brand new chassis to challenge for the European title again. He finished in 3rd position overall in the FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship, claiming his third South African 600cc national title as well, despite missing four races due to his international commitments. In 2018–2019 Odendaal competed in the FIM Moto2 World Championship aboard the NTS chassis before making a switch to the Supersport World Championship in 2020, where he finished 5th overall in his debut season.
For 2021, Odendaal joined the Evan Bros. Yamaha team in World Supersport, winning the first three opening races of the season.
In 2022, Odendaal won the Bol d'Or 24 hour endurance race together with teammates and Florian Alt on a Yamaha R1. He finished third overall in the Endurance World Championship.
In 2025 Odendaal joined the BMW Motorrad factory EWC team alongside Sylvain Guintoli and Markus Reiterberger. The team was close to winning the world championship title when their engine broke down with 30 minutes to go of the final 24 hour race at Bol D'Or. In the same year Odendaal won the title in the Spanish Superbike Championship with his Czech team New2Project.