"I was standing down on Yamaha corner watching Arthur on the inside working as a flaggie when an announcement was made following the first couple of races for volunteers to come and help with lapscoring," she recalls. It was 1962 at Oran Park's first-ever race meeting that it all began. Now in her 55th year of motorcycle sport administration (think about that), Jan Blizzard – along with her late husband, Arthur – has been a pillar of Australian motorcycle racing events since the early 1960s.Ī competitive swimmer from a young age, Blizzard's dream of swimming the English Channel was thwarted when she began attending race meetings and fell in love with the sport. She's currently signed for the Red Bull KTM Rally Team, one of Aussie Toby Price's teammates, and she finished 15th overall in this year's rain-affected Dakar Rally. Of the six Dakar Rallies she has raced, she's finished every one and her best result came in 2015 when she finished ninth overall. She even came out to Australia in 2011 to impart some of her riding wisdom at a three-day training camp in Sydney. Her long-term dream of racing in the gruelling Dakar Rally was achieved in 2011, where her 39th overall placing saw her finish as the best-placed female rider, and it was a result she repeated (39th overall, first female) the following year in 2012. In 2010 she switched to compete in the Women’s Enduro World Championship where she finished third overall in her debut season, second overall in 2011 and won the world title for the next three consecutive years. Thirty-one-year-old Spanish motorcycle star Laia Sanz Pla-Giribert has claimed the Women’s Trial World Championship a total of 13 times, while lofting the Female European Outdoor Championship title trophy on 10 other occasions.
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