Women racers line up at the Goiás FIM Intercontinental Games

Maintaining the FIM’s ongoing commitment to diversity, female competitors will form an integral part of all six FIM Continental Union (CONU) teams for this season’s second edition of the biennial FIM Intercontinental Games (ICG) that is scheduled to run from 11-13 December at the Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna in Goiânia, Brazil.

The 2026 Goiás FIM Intercontinental Games will be contested by the CONUs of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and Oceania that will each field twelve riders split evenly across Supersport 300 (SSP300), Supersport (SSP) and, for the first time, MX2 classes. In keeping with the event’s ethos of inclusivity, all CONUs must include at least one female competitor per category and with such a rich global talent pool to choose from, a total of eighteen world-class women racers will assemble in Brazil.

The female athletes in action at the 2026 Goiás FIM Intercontinental Games on a class-by-class basis, starting with SSP300 competitors will all race YZF-R3 machines provided by Yamaha.

Representing FIM Africa, Abigail Bosson celebrated her twenty-first birthday in October and the South African will be looking to build on the experience she gained at the inaugural ICG – the City of Jerez FIM Intercontinental Games – that was staged in Spain in 2024. Following this she placed fourth in the 2025 Western Cape Regional Super Twins Cup 650cc Championship and this year she has been a front-runner in the STC 650 class of the Killarney Power Series where she is in contention for an end-of-season podium position.

FIM Asia is fielding twenty-four-year-old Miu Nakahara from Japan who has raced the JP-Sport class of the All Japan Road Race Championship (AJRRC) this season. A veteran of the inaugural ICG where she carded sixteen-thirteen finishes, Nakahara was the only woman selected to take part in the TVS Asia One-Make Championship in 2022 and has also competed in the Asia Road Racing Championship.

Defending ICG champion FIM Europe is relying on Elisabetta Monti from Italy. Still only sixteen, Monti has been in impressive form this season and finished a close second in the 2026 Women’s European Championship, missing out on gold by just eight points after finishing on the podium five times – including two race victories – from seven starts.

Returning for the second successive ICG, Chilean Isis Carreño will Captain FIM Latin America’s SSP300 team. The twenty-six-year-old – the first Latin American woman to compete in WorldSSP300 when she raced at Misano in 2021 – is a veteran of all three editions of the FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championships (WorldWCR) having placed twelfth in 2024 and sixteenth in 2025 and 2026.

Ella Dreher will represent FIM North America and the sixteen-year-old from Florida, who was fifth in the 2025 MotoAmerica Talent Cup, will be looking to put a successful seal on a year that was disrupted by a mid-season injury sustained in the MotoAmerica Supersport championship.

Completing the line-up of fast females in the SSP300 category, FIM Oceania will field twenty-two-year-old Australian Tara Morrison who ran seventeenth and fifteenth in the class in Jerez two years ago. After making her debut as a wild card in the FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship (WorldWCR) round at Donington in 2025, this season she finished third in the SSP300 class of the Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) after claiming sixth last year when she became the first female rider to win a race in the class.

Competing on a fleet of YZF-R7 machines supplied by Yamaha, the female field in the SSP category is equally talent-filled with FIM Africa giving experienced South African racer Nicole Van Aswegen the role of Captain in the class. Another veteran of the 2024 FIM Africa ICG team, the forty-year-old former international gymnast has enjoyed a ground-breaking career. The first woman to secure a podium finish in a National Supersport race in South Africa, she brings two decades of racing experience to Brazil.

A member of FIM Asia’s SSP selection for the second successive ICG after recording a pair of fifteenth-placed finishes in Jerez, forty-nine-year-old Naoko Takasugi has been competing in the AJRRC for two decades and finished second in the J-GP3 class this year. In 2013 she became the first-ever Japanese woman to participate in the fabled 24 Heures Motos at Le Mans and has also contested the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours and the Bol D’Or.

Another veteran of the 2024 competition when she scored eleven-nine finishes in SSP300, eighteen-year-old Josephine Bruno from Italy clinched the 2026 Women’s European Championship with victory at the final round, while a wild card appearance at the Emilia-Romagna round of the WorldWCR earned her a ninth-placed finish in race two.

Mexico’s Astrid Madrigal returns for FIM Latin America after placing fourteenth and eighteenth in her two races in Jerez in 2024. The 2021 Italika Women’s International Cup champion and winner of the 2023 Latin America 500cc Championship title, the twenty-six-year-old finished eleventh in the WorldWCR in 2026 having placed eighth in 2024 and ninth last season.

FIM North America’s Mallory Dobbs recorded a pair of thirteenth-placed finishes in the SSP class at the 2024 ICG and the thirty-two-year-old civil engineer will be aiming to build on this experience in Brazil. Dobbs raced at amateur level until making her MotoAmerica debut in 2022 and has competed in all three editions of the WorldWCR series with end-of-season rankings of eleventh in 2024, fourteenth in 2025 and twenty-third this year.

Returning for her second ICG as a member of FIM Oceania, twenty-nine-year-old Tayla Collins fought back to finish fourteenth in race two in Jerez after retiring from the opener. The first female to win a race in the ASBK when, in 2016, she secured two wins in the Moto3 category, Collins is also the first Australian woman to compete full-time in an FIM World Championship, placing seventh overall in the inaugural WorldWCR in 2024 before finishing tenth the following year and twelfth in 2026.

Extending the competition to off-road racing for the second edition, competitors in the MX2 category will be supplied with motorcycles matching each rider’s requested brand and model and complying with FIM regulations.

Still only eighteen years old, Zimbabwe’s Caitlin Ann Parkes finished fourth in the 2026 South African MX Ladies Championship, improving one position on her finish the previous year. A BSc degree student in Exercise and Sport, Parkes also won the WMX class at the 2025 FIM Africa Motocross of African Nations.

Taking her place behind the start gate for FIM Asia, twenty-four-year-old Japanese racer Manaka Kawai has dominated the Ladies’ class of the All-Japan Motocross Championship this year as she raced to her fourth consecutive crown and her sixth in the last seven seasons.

Spain’s Daniela Guillén is Captain of FIM Europe’s MX2 team. A regular competitor in the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship (WMX) since 2021, the twenty-year-old claimed silver in 2023 and 2024 and won a bronze last year before finally striking gold in 2026 with three overall victories and a lowest race position of third.

Stepping in for FIM Latin America, Ecuador’s Fernanda Carrillo arrives in Brazil fresh from the biggest win of her career. The sixteen-year-old from the province of Azuay was crowned Latin American WMX Champion on home soil in Cuenca on 8 November, winning both motos while still recovering from collarbone surgery. The reigning Ecuadorian national champion had already made her mark on the continental stage with third place in the 2025 Latin American WMX Championship in Calama, Chile.

Carrillo’s FIM North America counterpart, seventeen-year-old Mayla Herrick had to wait until round three of the 2026 American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) Women’s Motocross Championship to be old enough to compete and immediately claimed a moto win before crashing out of the second race. Despite this she still finished the season ranked eighth with overall podiums at Unadilla and Ironman Raceway and she was the youngest member of the Team USA squad that won the FIM Oceania Women’s Motocross Cup in early 2026.

Completing the line-up of women racers in the 2026 Goiás FIM Intercontinental Games, FIM Oceania is fielding twenty-two-year-old Australian Taylah McCutcheon who has finished second in the MXW class of the national ProMX championship for the previous two seasons. This year she also finished fifth in the AMA Women’s Motocross Championship and was sixth in the opening WMX moto at the 2025 MXGP of Australia.

With women accounting for twenty-five per cent of the seventy-two-rider entry list, and three of them captaining their CONU teams, the FIM Women’s Commission has welcomed the 2026 Goiás FIM Intercontinental Games as a showcase for female talent across all six CONUs and all three classes. Established champions will line up alongside emerging talents, reflecting both the current strength and the promising future of women’s motorcycling.

Commenting on the female line-up, Janika Judeika, Director of the FIM Women’s Commission, said: “The FIM Intercontinental Games are a wonderful example of how talent, opportunity and representation come together. Seeing female riders from all six continental regions competing across three disciplines, including women taking on team captain roles, is a strong and encouraging message for the future of our sport. These women are not only representing their continents; they are inspiring the next generation of riders and showing that opportunities in motorcycling should have no boundaries. For the FIM Women’s Commission, this is exactly the progress we want to continue building on.”

San Juan to host the FIM SuperEnduro Grand Finale in Puerto Rico

The FIM SuperEnduro World Championship will conclude its season in San Juan, Puerto Rico, next week. Named the Grand Finale, the newly added eighth round will bring the Prestige season to a close at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot and mark the first FIM World Championship event ever held in Puerto Rico.

The addition takes the championship across the Atlantic, extending the previously announced seven-round calendar and bringing SuperEnduro to a new audience in the Caribbean. San Juan joins Belgrade, Budapest and Greater Paris as one of four capital-city destinations on the schedule.

Puerto Rico’s largest indoor arena, the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, will host the final racing of the Prestige season. Known locally as the Choliseo, the venue will welcome the world’s leading SuperEnduro riders as they compete for the last championship points and their places in the final standings.

Beyond the arena, San Juan offers a distinctive setting for the Grand Finale. The colourful streets of Old San Juan, historic waterfront and nearby beaches give visiting fans an opportunity to combine the final race weekend with a stay in one of the Caribbean’s most recognisable destinations.

Alongside Prestige, an Open class will compete at the Grand Finale using the same 3-final race format as the championship’s premier category. It will give riders from the other SuperEnduro classes, as well as competitors from outside the regular championship field, an opportunity to take part in the Grand Finale.

The calendar expansion builds on ever growing interest in SuperEnduro. 65,000 spectators attended last season, with four venues selling out. Moreover, record rider entry levels reflect the increasing appeal of SuperEnduro among competitors, too. Adding Puerto Rico extends that growth geographically, bringing the championship’s close racing and demanding indoor tracks to a new host destination.

The SuperEnduro season will begin on 5 December 2026 in Gliwice, Poland, before resuming after the winter break in Riesa, Germany, on 9 January. Bilbao, Belgrade and Budapest follow, ahead of the French round in Greater Paris on 27 February. Newcastle will host the seventh round on 6 March, with the Prestige field then travelling to San Juan for the Grand Finale on 20 March.