Sam Sunderland, born on 15 April 1989 in Poole, is a Dubai-based British rally raid motorcycle rider, best known for the Dakar Rally, which he won in 2017 and again in 2022. He made his Dakar debut in 2012 on a Honda after winning the UAE National Baja Championship in 2010 and 2011. In 2014, riding for the factory Honda team, he became the first British rider to win a Dakar stage since John Deacon in 1998. He then signed with the factory KTM team, won the Morocco Rally in 2015 and the Qatar Sealine Rally in 2016, and finished third overall at the 2019 Dakar. The Royal Automobile Club awarded him the 2017 Segrave Trophy for being the first Briton to win the motorcycle category of the Dakar Rally.
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