Noora Naraghi

Noora Naraghi is an Iranian motocross racer, born on 30 May 1988 in Tehran. She became interested in the sport after watching her father, Mehrshad Naraghi, compete, and she began riding motorcycles at the age of four; her mother and her brother are also motocross riders. On 30 October 2009 she won Iran's first-ever female championship in motocross, which made headline news in Iran and worldwide. In 2010 she travelled to Tallahassee, Florida, to learn motocross from Stefy Bau, a former women's world motocross champion, at an elite motocross academy for women, a story that CNN picked up. In 2010 she also raced in competitions sponsored by the American Motorcyclist Association.