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Tina Thörner
Swedish rally co-driver (born 1966)
Maria Christina Thörner (born in Säffle, Sweden on February 24, 1966) is a Swedish rally co-driver. Tina Thörner's career in motor sports started in 1990. Since then, she has won three FIA Ladies' World Rally Championship titles, a third and a second place overall in the Dakar Rally 1999 and 2006 and two FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup wins in 2008 and 2009.[1]
She has co-driven for many renowned drivers, including Louise Aitken-Walker with whom she made history to become the first ever female FIA World Rally Champions.[2] In the Dakar Rally, she raced with Jutta Kleinschmidt becoming the first women to get a podium finish in 1999,[3] and with Colin McRae[4] in 2004 and 2005. In 2008, she won her first FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup with Nasser Al Attiyah.[5]
Thörner also appeared in Let's Dance 2011 and a guest panelist in 2 episodes of Intresseklubben.