Amber Rae Giroux
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Amber Rae Giroux (* 1986 ) is a Canadian enduro athlete and motocrosser . In 2012 she was a member of the Canadian women's national team at the 87th International Six-Day Race .
Career
Amber Giroux, originally from Saskatchewan , grew up in a family passionate about motorsport. Two of her sisters and her mother also drive motocross races.
In 2006 she won the qualifying race for the national women's motocross championship. In 2008 she finished sixth in the National Motocross Championship and eighth the following year. In 2010 Amber Giroux finished fifth in this championship. Amber Giroux was banned from the first three races of the 2011 season because of an aggressive exchange of words with a CMRC official during a run in Walton, Ontario in August 2010.
In 2011 she switched to KTM and, in addition to motocross races, mainly drove enduro and cross-country races. In 2012 she was a member of the Canadian women's national team at the 87th International Six-Day Race. She was eliminated with an injury on the third day.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ To Be or Not to Be? ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Results CMRC Womens National 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ directmotocross.com September 7, 2010: Out of the Blue presented by Schrader's ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ insidemotocross.ca September 27, 2012: ISDE Team Canada Update # 2 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Giroux, Amber Rae |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian motocross rider and enduro athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1986 |