After eight years away from the Trial World Championship, Laia Sanz has returned to the top of the podium, winning the last round of the 2021 season with her GASGAS TXT GP 300 to become Women’s TrialGP World Champion, thus adding an incredible collection of 14 world titles in the specialty!
Proving once again that she is the undisputed queen of trial, Laia Sanz did exactly what she had to do in the all-important final round of the 2021 TrialGP World Championship, winning the event and an incredible 14th trial title in the process. Laia came into the Portuguese event one point behind her closest rival in the championship, Emma Bristow, but Laia showed her winning mentality from the moment she entered the first zone of the day.
"After an eight-year absence from the Trial World Championships, Laia's long-awaited return has resulted in her 14th Trial World Championship."
Fully aware that there was no margin for error, he completed the first lap by scoring just four feet. With this result she was already World Champion, however, the best was yet to come, as on the second lap she only accumulated two points and made her best ride of the season, when it mattered most. With this third victory in the 2021 championship, Laia has never dropped below second place during the season, and with her serenity and consistency she has managed to claim her fourteenth trial world title.
This impressive victory has even more merit considering that Laia had been absent from the Trial this year, after abandoning the speciality at the end of 2013, due to the impossibility of combining it with the Enduro World Championship and the Dakar Rally. In addition, her return has been especially complicated, after overcoming a very difficult last three years in terms of health, being forced to overcome mononucleosis, Q fever and Lyme disease.
