Jolene Van Vugt

Jolene Van Vugt is a Canadian motocross rider born on September 17, 1980 in London, Ontario, to Dutch immigrant parents. She is the first CMRC Women's Canadian Motocross National Champion, the first woman to backflip a full-sized dirt bike, a holder of multiple Guinness World Records and a co-star of many motocross and stunt videos, and she appeared in the television show Nitro Circus. At eleven she persuaded her father to buy her a dirt bike, and at fourteen she committed to motocross full time, earning several Ontario Provincial Championships and her lifetime number 63. In 2008 she earned Guinness World Records for the first woman to backflip a dirt bike and the longest female backflip, and in 2012 she performed the Catwoman driving stunts in the film The Dark Knight Rises.