The 2000 "Total" Paris-Dakar-Cairo Rally

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Andrea Mayer

Andrea Mayer Andrea Mayer is the only woman rider in the BMW team. She has been active in motorcycle sport since 1989 and is currently the leading woman rider in motorcycle rallying. She has won her class in the Transdanubia Rally in Hungary twice, the Rally Optic 2000 in Tunisia several times and the Ladies Cup in the 1996 Paris-Dakar Rally.

When she's not riding, she works as a freelance journalist and as an instructor at BMW's Enduro Park in Hechlingen, so that her whole life can be said to revolve round the motorcycle. She has even celebrated her birthday on two occasions in the saddle of a motorcycle!

Pilot of a F650RR
  Date of birth: January 2, 1968
In: Kaufbeuren, Germany

Height and weight: 1.67 m / 62 kg
Education: higher school-leaving certificate
Professional training: journalist
Professional career: racing rider, instructor, tour guide

Hobbies: mountain biking, skiing, enduro riding
Favourite food: spaghetti
Favourite drink: buttermilk
Favourite music: rock operas

Greatest successes:
1994: Women's prize in the Atlas Rally
1995: Women's prize in the Tunisia Rally
1996: Women's prize in the Atlas Rally
Women's prize in the Granada-Dakar
2nd place in ladie's category, Tunisia Rally
1997: Women's prize in the Tunisia Rally
Women's prize in the Dubai Rally
1998: Women's prize in the Dubai Rally
1999: Women's prize in the Granada-Dakar Rally
(text from the official BMW Motorrad Team Gauloises's web pages 2000)

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