Corine Dorland

Corine Dorland
Personal information
Full name Corine Stam-Dorland
Nickname "The Queen of BMX"
Born June 30, 1973
Loenen, the Netherlands
Height 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) (c. 1992)
Weight 60 kg (130 lb) (c. 1992)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Mountain bike racing(MTB
Cyclo-cross
Role Racer
Rider type BMX: Off Road
MTB: Cross-country
Amateur team(s)
1982 Peugeot
1983-1986 Vicuna Kuwahara (Europe)
1987-1988 AMEV Nederland b.v.
1988-1989 Be-One
1990 Royal Dutch KNWU
1990-1991 Sunn
1992-1996 GT Bicycles (Europe)
Professional team(s)
1997-1999 VSB Batavus
2000-2001 Be-One
2002 Power Plate/Bik
2003 Bik/Powerplate
2004 Bik/Gios
Infobox last updated on
January 6, 2009

Corine Stam-Dorland (née Dorland) (born June 30, 1973 in Loenen, Gelderland) was a Dutch amateur "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1981-1996. From 1996 to 2006 she was also an accomplished Mountain Bike (MTB) Cyclo-cross and Road Bike racer. Her nickname during her BMX career was "The Queen of BMX", largely for her nearly unbroken streak of a total of ten World Champions, several European Championships and an almost equal number of National championships from when she was eight years old until she was 21. She was to Holland and European BMX as a whole as Cheri Elliott was to American BMX. Indeed, her career was much longer than Elliott's garnering far more titles on the local, national and international level than her near contemporary American counterpart (Dorland is three years younger than Elliott). Dorland would go on to a respected MTB cross country (XC) racing career. In that sub-discipline Dorland would capture three national titles in MTB and earn a spot on Holland's 2000 Sydney, Australia Olympic team. She also went on to fulfill a prediction that many had made for her in another area. Because of her stunning physical beauty, she was also a model in her adult years concurrent with her MTB career. She appeared in many racing related advertisements. As with Elliott in the United States, many a male BMXer was sad to see her retire from the world of BMX.

Racing career milestones

Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

Started Racing: 1980 at six years old.

First race result: She won.[1]

Sanctioning Body: Stichting Fietscross Nederland (SFN) (in English the Dutch Bicycle Motocross Foundation).

First win (local): See "First race result".

First sponsor:

First National race result:

First national win:

Turned Professional: No Professional Career

First Professional race result: See Above.

First Professional win: See Above.

Retired: 1996 at 23 years old. She started Mountain Bike Racing during her last year of BMX. Crossed over fully into Mountain Bike racing in 1997 and later into Cyclo-Cross and Road Racing. She left BMX because she had won everything.

Height & weight at height of her career (1994): Ht:5'7" Wt:~130 lbs

Career factory and major bike shop sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are used.

Amateur

Professional

Career bicycle motocross titles

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. Only sanctioning bodies that existed during the racer's career(s) are list. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.

Amateur

Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU)

Nederlandse Fietscross Federatie (NFF)

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)***

*Dorland had an intervening birthday (June 30) between the European and World Championships held at the time in June and July respectively.
**This is not the same as the European Championships.

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)***

***There wasn't a 16 girls class that year. Her streak of seven consecutive IBMXF World Championships was broken after this year and she didn't win the World Championship in her age group in 1990.

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)***

***Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC, the amateur cycling arm of the UCI, had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1996 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.

Professional

BMX press magazine interviews and articles

BMX magazine covers

Note: Only magazines that were in publication at the time of the racer's career(s) are listed unless specifically noted.

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

BMX Plus!:

Total BMX

Bicycles and Dirt:

Bicross Magazine & Bicross & Skate Magazine

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (the NBL official publication under two different names):

ABA Action, American BMX'er, BMXer (the ABA official publication under three different names):

USBA Racer (the USBA official publication):

Mountain Bike Career Record

Started racing: 1996

Sub Discipline: Cross country (XC)

First race result:

Sanctioning body: UCI

Retired: 2005

Career MTB factory and major Non-factory sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by MTB press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are given.

Amateur

No amateur status.

Professional

Career Mountain Bike Racing (MTB) titles

Note: Listed are Regional, National and International titles.

Amateur

No amateur status.

Professional

Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU)

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)

National Off Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)

USA Cycling

Miscellaneous

Image of Corine in 2004 on the Powerplate/Bik team.

An April 2007 image.

It was predicted while she was in the middle of her BMX career that she could be a model because of her early developing beauty.[7] Such predictions came true.

http://home.planet.nl/~vuurm001/dorland1.jpg

http://home.planet.nl/~vuurm001/dorland2.jpg

Corine posing in famous Sportsweek magazine advertisement.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ BMX Plus! December 1988 Vol.11 No.12 pg.39
  2. ↑ BMX Plus! April 1982 Vol.5 No.4 pg.23
  3. ↑ BMX Plus! December 1999 Vol.22 No.12 pg.32
  4. ↑ Super BMX & Freestyle May 1986 Vol.13 No.5 pg.26
  5. ↑ Fortis.com precursors page.
  6. ↑ Yahoo page on Belgium Bank Mergers & Acquisitions (Fortis)
  7. ↑ BMX Plus! December 1988 Vol.11 No.12 pg.40

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