Louise Forsley

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Louise Forsley
NationalityAmerican
Born (1988-06-07) 7 June 1988 (age 33)
Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States

Louise Forsley (born 7 June 1990 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States) is an International Women's motorcycle trials rider. Forsley rode the US NATC National Championships and the FIM World Trials Championships. Forsley is a two time Women's National Champion. Louise competed in the 2012 Xgames in Los Angeles, California and took home the silver medal.

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Biography

Forsley grew up in Bernardston, Massachusetts. She finished third in the 2004 US NATC Women's Trials Championship behind the Canadian Gas Gas duo of Christy Williams and Kerry Williams. She was selected as part of the US Trial des Nations team and traveled to Spain along with Nicole Bradford and Debbie Evans Leavitt. The team finished 8th. [1]

In 2005, she went one better with a runner-up position behind Christy Williams. Once more Forsley was selected for the US Women's Trial des Nations team, this time the event was held in Italy. The team of Forsley, Bradford and Sarah Duke finished in 9th place. [1]

For the next several years she concentrated on riding the FIM Trial World Championship with a best result of 5th place in Spain during the 2008 Championship.

She returned to US National competition in 2011, taking the NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Championship after remaining unbeaten all year, putting together the perfect season, a feat she repeated the following year.

National Trials Championship Career

[2]

YearClassMachineRd
1
Rd
2
Rd
3
Rd
4
Rd
5
Rd
6
Rd
7
Rd
8
Rd
9
Rd
10
Rd
11
Rd
12
Rd
13
PointsPosNotes
2003 Flag of the United States.svg NATC Women's Scorpa CA
6
CA
5
WA
-
WA
-
OR
-
OR
-
PA
3
PA
3
RI
4
RI
4
WY
7
WY
5
CA
-
1254th
2004 Flag of the United States.svg NATC Women's Sherco TN
2
TN
2
CO
3
CO
3
CA
1
OH
2
OH
3
VT
1
VT
2
1353rd
2005 Flag of the United States.svg NATC Women's Sherco TX
3
TX
2
TN
2
TN
2
CO
2
CO
1
CA
3
CA
3
VT
1
VT
1
NY
-
NY
-
1902nd
2006 Flag of the United States.svg NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Sherco AZ
1
AZ
1
OK
1
OK
2
TN
1
TN
-
RI
-
RI
-
1451stNATC Women's ES Champion
2009 Flag of the United States.svg NATC Expert Gas Gas NE
7
NE
7
TN
6
TN
-
VT
7
VT
-
NY
10
NY
8
707th
2011 Flag of the United States.svg NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Sherco TX
1
TX
1
PA
1
PA
1
TN
1
TN
1
TN
1
1501stNATC Women's ES Champion
2012 Flag of the United States.svg NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Sherco CA
1
CA
1
CO
1
CO
1
OH
1
OH
1
RI
1
RI
1
1501stNATC Women's ES Champion
2019 Flag of the United States.svg NATC Women's Pro Scorpa NE
-
NE
-
MN
-
MN
-
CO
2
CO
2
OR
1
OR
1
1103rd

FIM World Women's Trials Championship Career

[2]

YearTeam123PointsRank
2004ShercoSPA
15
SPA
14
317th
2005ShercoITA
12
ITA
-
415th
2006ShercoAND
6
BEL
8
FRA
9
188th
2007ShercoCZE
15
BEL
-
GBR
9
812th
2008Gas-GasLUX
-
SPA
5
AND
11
169th
2011ShercoGER
-
CZE
-
ITA
14
219th

Honors

Stunt Performance

Since 2015, Forsley has been doing theatrical and stunt performance as Black Widow for the show Marvel Universe Live! [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "trial des nations". americanmotorcyclist.com. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 "US Trials Championships". trialonline.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  3. "Now a Marvel hero, former bike racer is enjoying her superpowers - The Boston Globe".