The success Prumm achieved on the world stage was no doubt one of the sparks that ignited the international racing career of Otago ’ s Courtney Duncan . The girl from Palmerston , near Dunedin , first turned heads internationally when , racing against the boys , she finished sixth overall in the 85cc class at the FIM Junior Motocross World Championships in Taupo in 2009 . That result from the then 13-year-old Duncan helped boost New Zealand to third overall in the ‘ Nations Trophy ’ classification . The result by Duncan was the best ever by a female in ( not gender-specific ) Junior Motocross World Championship racing history and she demonstrated her outstanding riding ability by finishing fourth in the second of her two championship races that weekend . It wasn ’ t long before she was a regular on the international stage , variously experiencing some great successes , but also some bitter disappointments . Just embarking on her 2016 campaign in Europe , she signed off at home by “ whipping the cream ” at the annual Woodville motocross in late January . She won the coveted MX2 class crown that day , beating a couple of male motocross heroes in the shape of Josiah Natzke and Hamish Harwood ( young men who , incidentally , would later that season be chosen to represent New Zealand at the Motocross of Nations in Maggiora , Italy ). Between 2016 and 2018 , Duncan impressed greatly on the GP scene in Europe , but she never quite managed to put her Yamaha on top of the World . She finished fifth overall in an injury-blighted 2016 campaign in Europe . Duncan crashed on a jump while leading at the German GP in May that year , the third round of the series , after clipping an errant photographer who was , shockingly , actually standing out in the middle of the track . The wrist injury she suffered that day forced her out of the following five races as she underwent