2024 CMA Awards

At the Annual General Meeting, on January 18, 2025, the 2024 CMA Awards were confirmed by the Board of Directors, and awarded as follows:

Award of Merit – Christy Williams Richards

The CMA premier award given in recognition of exceptional effort or achievement on behalf of the CMA. Any current or former member is eligible, except those who retired from office during 2023. This is a one time award.

Christy Williams Richards is a four-time Canadian Women’s Trials Champion, ten-time American NATC Women’s Trials Champion, and has competed at the Trials des Nations for many years.  Having officially retired from competition in 2017, Christy has continued as a mentorand instructor in Trials, promoting Trials as a sport and a recreational activity. She has taken the lead in promoting Women in Trials, hosting multiple Women’s Trials Training sessions, and enabling the CMA to again send a Women’s team to the Trial des Nations, where she joined the team as Manager and minder.  Christy has organized CMA National Trials events, and still represents Canada in many Trials events overseas and at home. 

Ambassadors Award – Toni Sharpless

Any person, competitor or worker, who gains exceptional recognition for the CMA in international motorcycle activity.

Toni Sharpless has organized, funded and led the FIM MiniGP Canada Series for the past two years, and helped our riders to reach the FIM MiniGP World Finals in Spain, in 2023 and 2024.  Toni is growing the Canada series each year and is bringing incredible new opportunities, both locally and internationally, to the young riders in Canada.

White Memorial Trophy – Trystan Hart

Donated by Ron & Eve White - Best performance by a Canadian rider in all disciplines.

Bert Irwin Memorial Cup – Owen McKill

Donated by Ontario Region - Best Performance at the ISDE.

No. 1 Plate, Trials – Murphy Aaron

CSBK Superbike Champion – Ben Young

MiniGP Champion – Lincoln Scott

Congratulations, and thank you to all our Award Winners for helping make this year a success!