Corine Dorland


Corine Stam-Dorland was a Dutch amateur "Old School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1981-1996. From 1996 to 2006 she was also an accomplished Mountain Bike 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 would go on to a respected MTB cross country 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.
Sanctioning Body: Stichting Fietscross Nederland .
First win : 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 : 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

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. Only sanctioning bodies that existed during the racer's career 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
Nederlandse Fietscross Federatie
National Bicycle Association
National Bicycle League
American Bicycle Association
United States Bicycle Motocross Association
International Bicycle Motocross Federation ***
*Dorland had an intervening birthday 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 ***
***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 ***
***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

Significant injuries

Racing habits and traits

Miscellaneous

BMX press magazine interviews and articles

Note: Only magazines that were in publication at the time of the racer's career 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 :
ABA Action, American BMX'er, BMXer :
USBA Racer :

Mountain Bike Career Record

Started racing: 1996
Sub Discipline: Cross country
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

Note: Listed are Regional, National and International titles.

Amateur

No amateur status.

Professional

Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie
Union Cycliste Internationale
National Off Road Bicycle Association
USA Cycling

Notable MTB accolades

MTB product lines

Significant MTB injuries

Miscellaneous

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. Such predictions came true.
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