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In 2015, he began his British speedway career in the Premier League with Edinburgh Monarchs, with whom he won the League Cup, Premier League Four-Team Championship, and the Premier League title. In 2016 he won the German Championship and won the World Longtrack Championship for a second time, scoring a 7-ride maximum in the final round in Vechta, and finished in 8th place in the Under-21 World Speedway Championship. While continuing to ride for the Monarchs in the Premier League and then in the newly formed SGB Championship, in 2017 he also signed to ride for Leicester Lions in the SGB Premiership, and was selected to ride for Germany in the 2017 Speedway Best Pairs Championship. In 2019, he signed for Redcar Bears. On 1 September 2019, Riss won his first Championship Riders' title at Sheffield after qualifying for the semi-final on 12 points. He won the semi-final and then went on to win the final. He rounded off 2019 by finishing third in the Jason Crump Classic at Kurri Kurri in Australia.

He first had success in long track, winning the German championship in 2014. Later that year, at 19, he became the youngest rider ever to win the world championship. In the same year, he was part of the German teams that won the World Longtrack Team Championship and finished fourth in the European Junior Team Championship.

Born in Memmingen, Germany, the son of former rider Gerd Riss and younger brother of Mark Riss, Erik Riss began his speedway career in 2012 and rode in his home country for Automobilclub Landshut from 2013, also riding in Germany for MSV Herxheim and AMC Memmingen. He currently rides for the Redcar Bears, having signed for them in the 2019 season to ride in the SGB Championship.

Erik Riss (born 13 September 1995) is a German speedway and grasstrack rider, who won the World Longtrack Championship in 2014 and 2016, and was German speedway champion in 2016.