Stefan Everts

Ten, which is still the record for the Motocross World Championship: the 125cc title in 1991, the 250cc title in 1995, 1996 and 1997, the 500cc title in 2001 and 2002, and the premier class in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

101. That was the record until Jeffrey Herlings passed it in 2023. The first came at the Hungarian Grand Prix in 1991 and the last in 2006, the season in which he won fourteen of the fifteen rounds.

A nickname for a rider who has won world titles in all three of the traditional motocross classes — 125cc, 250cc and 500cc, which add up to 875. Eric Geboers was the first to do it and Everts the second.

He was the first rider to win motocross world championships on all four Japanese manufacturers: Suzuki in 1991, Kawasaki in 1995, Honda in 1996 and 1997, and Yamaha from 2001 onwards.

He won three Grands Prix on the same day at the French circuit, in three different classes — the 125cc, the premier class and the 650cc.

Harry Everts, a Belgian rider who won four motocross world championships himself. Stefan was riding a motorcycle from the age of four.

2006, in the MX1 class on a Yamaha. He won fourteen of the fifteen Grands Prix and retired as champion at thirty-three, then became motocross race director for the KTM factory team.

He was bitten by a malaria mosquito while attending a charity motocross event in Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and was admitted to intensive care at UZ Leuven in critical condition in December. He woke from an induced coma on 17 December, and later lost eight toes to surgery, but learned to walk again.

Belgian Sportsman of the Year five times, in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006, a tally surpassed in Belgium only by Eddy Merckx; the Belgian National Sports Merit Award in 2003; the Flemish Sportsjewel in 1997; and a statue at Neeroeteren, raised in 2006.