Maria Christina Thörner (born in

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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

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1999 and 2006 and two

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wins in 2008 and 2009. She has co-driven for many renowned drivers, including

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with whom she made history to become the first ever female FIA World Rally Champions. In the

, she raced with

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becoming the first women to get a podium finish in 1999, and with

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in 2004 and 2005. In 2008, she won her first

with Nasser Al Attiyah. Thörner also appeared in

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and a guest panelist in 2 episodes of Intresseklubben.

Career

Rallying

In 1990, co-driver Tina Thörner and driver

made history by becoming the first ever FIA Ladies' World Rally Champions. In 1999, she competed with driver

in the

. Three days into the race after its fifth stage, Tina and Jutta were overall rally leaders. In the end, they finished third overall and were the first women to get a podium finish at the Dakar Rally. Tina Thörner made history again in 2008 by winning the

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with

Nasser Al-Attiyah Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah ( ar, ناصر صالح ناصر عبدالله العطية : nāṣir ṣāliḥ nāṣir ʿabdullāh al-ʿaṭṭīyah; born 21 December 1970 in Doha) is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He wa ...

becoming the first Middle Eastern man and European Woman to do so. She has co-driven with drivers Lars-Erik Torph, Carina Hermanson, Susanne Kottulinsky, Mats Jonsson, Ola Strömberg, Mats Karlsson, Leif Asterhag, Louise Atiken-Walker, Isolde Holderied, Simon Davison, Uwe Nittel, Mika Solberg, Mattias Ekström, Jutta Kleinschmidt, Thomas Rådström, Kenneth Eriksson, Ari Vatanen, Colin McRae, Giniel De Villiers, Nasser Al-Attiyah and Guerlain Chicherit.

References

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