Tanyaradzwa Adel Muzinda (born 31 August 2004) is a
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
an Motocross rider. She was the first woman to win a motocross championship in Zimbabwe.
Life
Muzinda was born in
Harare
Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...
in 2004 and she began riding a motorbike when she was five encouraged by her enthusiastic father, Tawanda.
[ Her mother is named Adiyon and she has three siblings.][
In 2017 she had a fall that damaged her hip and she had difficulty walking for several months.][
Motocross championships were first organized in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1957. No woman had ever won a championship until Muzinda won.
The Africa Union Sports Council Region Five Annual Sports Awards honored Muzinda South Africa's Junior Sportswoman of the Year in 2018.
The African Union recognized her as the junior sportswoman of the Year in 2018. At the end of 2019, she and her family moved to Florida supported by the Italian three times world motocross champion ]Stefy Bau
Stefy Bau is an Italian former professional motocross and supercross racer. After a career-ending injury in 2005, Stefy became the General Manager of the newly established FIM Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme Women's World Motocross Ch ...
. Bau became her manager while her father continued as her (and two of her siblings) trainer.[
In 2021 she was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women.]
References
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2004 births
Living people
Zimbabwean motocross riders