1. Marc Coma i Camps was born on 7 October 1976 and is a Spanish rally racing motorcycle rider.
15 Facts About Marc Coma
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Marc Coma won the Dakar Rally in 2006,2009,2011,2014, and 2015 riding a KTM motorcycle, and is a six-time winner of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship.
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Marc Coma was the race director of the Dakar Rally from 2016 to 2018.
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Marc Coma was born on 7 October 1976 in Avia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Marc Coma started to be interested in motorcycling since childhood.
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Marc Coma climbed as high as seventh in the overall classification before retiring halfway through the rally, but his performance caught the eye of the factory Repsol-backed KTM team, which he joined in 2003.
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Marc Coma finished third in four stages, but could finish no higher than 18th overall, and would retire from the rally in 2004 after suffering head injuries in a crash.
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Marc Coma contested four of that year's World Championships rounds, and victory in the Argentina-based Rally Por Las Pampas and Egyptian Rallye des Pharaons was enough for him to clinch the title.
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Marc Coma dominated the 2007 Dakar Rally, winning three stages to build up a lead of almost an hour over his closest rival, Despres, before a navigational error and a crash with two stages remaining forced him to retire.
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Marc Coma nonetheless was able to take a third Cross-Country Rallies title with another five victories that year.
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The Dakar was cancelled in 2008, Marc Coma retiring early on from its replacement, the 2008 Central Europe Rally, after fracturing his knee in the second stage.
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The Dakar moved to South America in 2009, Marc Coma winning three of the first four stages and securing a comfortable second victory in the event, nearly 90 minutes clear of runner-up Despres.
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Marc Coma recovered from this to finish runner-up in the World Championship with three wins, before taking a fourth Dakar victory on his return to the event in 2014 with a further two stage wins.
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Marc Coma clinched a sixth world title the same year with victory in Morocco.
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In 2015, Marc Coma took the position of the Dakar's Sporting Director, which he got by Etienne Lavigne.