The fiancee of late Australian motocross rider Joel Evans has announced the birth of their first child, nearly six months on from his death.

Evans, 30, crashed in a top-level MX1 race at the ProMX Championship event in South Australia and later died in hospital.

Tributes flowed from around the sport before the Queenslander’s partner Michaela shared that “the hardest day of our lives has been made easier knowing a piece of you lives on”.

“Yesterday we lost the most incredible person on this earth,” Michaela wrote in April.

“The most authentic, loved and kind-hearted soul. He loved and devoted his life to this sport which brought him so much joy and he rode it out right till the end.

“We are so grateful for the outpouring of love and support for our beautiful man.

“He is such a lov

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