Emma Bristow (now Emma Fry) MBE began life in1990. Nowadays she’s a a British professional motorcycle trials rider and nine-times Women’s World Championship winner in World Trials.
In 2014, Bristow became the first British rider to win the Women’s FIM Trial World Championship. She also has two FIM SuperEnduro World Championships (2014 and 2015), a two-time European champion in the Women’s Trial European Championship in 2013 and 2017 and ten British women’s titles.
Emma began riding at the age of four and became a four time British Youth Champion. She started her international career at the 2006 World Championships, riding to 9th place in the Andorra round at the age of 16. Competing on a Gas Gas, Bristow contested the European and World rounds over the next few seasons.
Bristow signed for the Ossa factory in 2011 and rode to runner up position in the World Championships, a result she repeated in 2012. At the end of the season, Bristow left her factory ride at Ossa to join Sherco.[4]
In 2013, she won her first Women’s FIM Trial European Championship title. In 2014, she won both the British Women’s Title and the Women’s FIM Trial World Championship title. She then won the FIM Trial World Championship every year from 2014 to 2020.
In 2020, she became the first female ever to win the prestigious Torrens Trophy Award and made history when she also become the first person to ride into the Royal Automobile Club on two wheels. In 2022, she won her eighth World Trials Championship.
