Gautier Paulin

Gautier Paulin, born in Draguignan, France, on 26 March 1990, is a French former professional motocross racer who competed in the Motocross World Championships from 2007 until 2020. He began on BMX bikes at the age of six and won a BMX world championship at ten, then took the 2007 European motocross championship in the EMX2 class. In the MX2 class of the world championship his best result was third in 2009 on Kawasaki, after which he moved up to the premier MXGP class with the Honda factory team and finished 2015 as runner up to Romain Febvre. He later rode for Husqvarna and then Yamaha. For France at the Motocross des Nations he was a member of the team that won five consecutive events from 2014 to 2018, and in 2023 he won it again as team manager of the French team.