Marc Coma

Marc Coma i Camps is a Spanish rally raid motorcycle rider, born on 7 October 1976 in Avià, Barcelona. Riding for KTM he won the Dakar Rally five times, in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2015, and he is a six-time winner of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. He began as an enduro rider, winning a Spanish junior championship in 1995 and the under-23 world title in 1998, and first entered the Dakar in 2002 on a Suzuki before joining the factory KTM team in 2003. His rivalry with teammate Cyril Despres shaped many of his years: in 2012 the two were separated by less than two minutes before an engine change penalty ended Coma's challenge. He was race director of the Dakar Rally from 2016 to 2018, and in 2020 he took part in the car category as co-driver of Fernando Alonso, finishing 13th.