Lotte van Drunen

Lotte van Drunen is a Dutch professional motocross racer, born on 9 August 2007. By winning the 2024 FIM Women's Motocross World Championship at seventeen she became the youngest rider to win it, and she successfully defended her title in 2025 at eighteen despite a serious ankle injury. Before her world championship career she gained notoriety as a youth rider in the Netherlands and across Europe, often podiuming or winning against male riders, and she finished third in the 65 class of the 2019 FIM Motocross Junior World Championship and third in the EMX85 class in 2021. She first rode a motocross bike at four, became Dutch national champion in the 50cc class at nine and won a second national title in 2018. She has also been one of the few women to race in a round of the FIM Motocross World Championship, in a wildcard appearance in 2024.