Milko Potisek

Milko Potisek, born on 27 December 1989 in Dunkirk and known as the Lion of Flanders, is a French motorcycle racer who specialises in motocross and sand racing. The son of a motorcycle dealer, he began riding a Yamaha PW50 at the age of three and raced the 65cc class of the Belgian Motocross Championship at eight. He finished runner-up in the MX3 World Championship in 2011, entered the MX1 World Championship in 2012 and raced in MXGP in 2014. His strongest results came on sand, where he won the Enduropale du Touquet three times, in 2018, 2020 and 2022, the last of which sealed the 2022 French Sand Racing Championship. In the same year he became French Elite Motocross Champion. He recovered from serious crashes in 2014 and 2024 and finished second in the 2025 Enduropale.