DAKAR 2025

Daniel Sanders wins Dakar 2025 with podium for Tosha Schareina and Adrien Van Beveren

Australian Daniel Sanders has taken the overall win at Dakar 2025, which he led from the prologue to the end - something that no one had done since Spaniard Marc Coma in 2009 -, achieving the third Touareg for Australia after those won by Toby Price in 2016 and 2019; and regaining the throne for KTM a year after losing it to Honda.

The golden wing brand has had to settle for a double podium: second place has gone to Spaniard Tosha Schareina, who ends eight years of drought for Spanish motorcycling on the podium at the Dakar (since Gerard Farrés' third place in 2017); with Frenchman Adrien Van Beveren repeating the third place from a year ago. The Spaniard Edgar Canet has conquered the Rally2 category as a rookie and at just 19 years old, ahead of the Austrian Tobias Ebster and the Frenchman Romain Dumontier -winner of the same in 2023-; while the Romanian Emanuel Gyenes has won a very tight duel in Original. Within the Rally2, Canet has also won in the Junior and Rookie subcategories; the Spanish Sandra Gómez in Women and the Czech David Pabiska in Veteran.

The final stage, a loop in Shubaytah with a short 61-kilometre special, was for the South African Michael Docherty, also winner of the penultimate stage; who has beaten Adrien Van Beveren by just three seconds, with Tobias Ebster third at 44 seconds to reinforce his status as the best privateer in the general classification ahead of the Slovak Stefan Svitko, fifth today. Between them was Tosha Schareina, yesterday's winner, with the champion Daniel Sanders in sixth position. The top 10 was completed by the Argentine Luciano Benavides - who is just a few steps away from the podium in his best final position -, Romain Dumontier, the Portuguese Rui Gonçalves and the winner of the last Dakar, the American Ricky Brabec.

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