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Marianne Vos 
Vos pictured on 21 January 2007Personal information Full name Marianne Vos Born May 13, 1987
's-Hertogenbosch, NetherlandsHeight 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] Weight 58 kg (130 lb; 9.1 st)[1] Team information Current team Team DSB Bank Discipline Road, cyclo-cross, MTB, Track Role Rider Professional team(s) 2006– Team DSB-Ballast Nedam Major wins UCI Women's Road World Cup (2007)
La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (2007–2009)
UCI Road Race World Championships (2006)
UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships (2006, 2009–2011)Medal recordCompetitor for the 
NetherlandsCyclo-cross World Championship Gold 2006 Zeddam Elite Gold 2009 Hoogerheide Elite Gold 2010 Tábor Elite Gold 2011 Sankt Wendel Elite Silver 2008 Treviso Elite Road bicycle racing World Championship Gold 2006 Salzburg Elite road race Silver 2007 Stuttgart Elite road race Silver 2008 Varese Elite road race Silver 2009 Mendrisio Elite road race Silver 2010 Geelong Elite road race Silver 2011 Copenhagen Elite road race Track cycling Olympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing Points race World Championship Gold 2008 Manchester Points race Gold 2011 Apeldoorn Scratch Infobox last updated on
24 September 2011Marianne Vos, (
pronunciation (help·info)) (born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch cyclo-cross, road bicycle racer and track racer. After winning a junior European and world championship in road racing, she continued in senior cycling by becoming world champion in cyclo-cross and road racing at the age of 19. Vos added track racing world championships when she won the points race in 2008 and the scratch race in 2011. In the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the points race.Contents
Early years
Marianne Vos was born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant and lives in the small village of Meeuwen. She started her career when she was six years old after she watched her older brother who was already a cyclist.[2] At first she trained with her brother's team as she was not allowed to participate in races; during the winter she started training in cyclo-cross as well. When she was eight, she was able to ride races.[2] Vos also participated in speed skating and inline speed skating. At 14 she replaced inline skating with mountain biking.
Professional career
2002, 2003
In 2002 she won two national championships and finished second in another. She became Dutch mountain biking champion and won the national junior road race,[3][4] while she finished second in the Dutch time trial championship behind Roxanne Knetemann.[5] In 2003 Vos successfully defended her national junior mountain bike title.[3] At the time trial championships she again finished second, this time behind Maxime Groenewegen while 2002 champion Roxanne Knetemann finished fourth.[6]
2004
Vos excelled in cyclo-cross for the first time in 2004 when she won her first international race in Gieten, beating Birgit Hollmann and Arenda Grimberg.[7] She finished third in the Dutch junior road race and time trial, unable to beat Ellen van Dijk who won both events.[8][9] Continuing her cyclo-cross season she added wins in Surhuisterveen and Pijnacker-Nootdorp. In the last she beat Hanka Kupfernagel and Daphny van den Brand.[10][11] For the third straight time she became Dutch junior champion in mountain biking before heading to Verona for the junior road world championship.[3] Aged 17 and a first-year junior, Vos broke away in the final of five laps on the climb. She stayed clear and became world champion.[12] At the end of 2004 Vos was elected Sport FM Sportswoman of the year 2004[13]
2005
As junior world champion Vos claimed her first Dutch junior national road title in front of 2004 champion Ellen van Dijk.[14] Van Dijk was able to defend her time trial title successfully before Maxime Groenewegen, while Vos finished third again.[15] Participating as a senior at the Dutch cyclo-cross championship Vos finished second behind Daphny van den Brand.[16] She then won her fourth Dutch junior mountain bike title, before winning a junior World Cup meeting in Houffalize.[3] She finished fourth at the world junior cyclo-cross championship and won a race held in Heeswijk a week later.[3] From then on Vos occasionally took part in senior road races. One was the Omloop van Borsele which she won by beating Adrie Visser.[17] Including Vos's world championship in 2004 The Netherlands had won the last three editions of the junior championship (the others being Loes Markerink in 2002 and Suzanne de Goede in 2003).[12] Vos's goal was to add a fourth title by defending her title in Salzburg, but she finished second behind Denmark's Mie Bekker Lacota.[18]
Vos went to cyclo-cross again. Six weeks after her silver medal from Salzburg she won in Harderwijk and Suameer.[19][20] Her next aim was the European cyclo-cross championship in Pont-Château, France. She started in the élite field and was expected to assist Daphny van den Brand but instead beat the favourites, including van den Brand who won silver.[21] After the European championship she won two cyclo-crosses in Gieten and Loenhout.[22][23] Vos was named Sport FM Sportswoman of the year 2005'.'[13]
2006
Vos won her first race of 2006 on 1 January in Pétange.[24] Less than a week later, the Dutch championship in Huijbergen was again a clash between Vos and van den Brand, this time van den Brand becoming champion while Vos took silver.[25] Vos then concentrated on the world cyclo-cross championship in her own country, in Zeddam. On 29 January 2006 she was in excellent form, with only Hanka Kupfernagel and Daphny van den Brand able to catch her. Van den Brand changed bikes and lost her lead, following at a minute to take bronze. The gold medal was decided in the last metres when Vos outsprinted Kupfernagel.[26]
During the 2006 road season Vos took part in the Gracia-Orlova Tour in the Czech Republic and won the 5th stage, 2:20 before the pack.[27] In that same week she won the Omloop van Borsele for the second time in a row, beating Vera Koedooder and Bertine Spijkerman.[28] In Spain she took part in the Emakumeen Bira and won the 1st stage.[29] She then travelled back to Holland for the national road championship in Maastricht. Vos showed up in the group containing all favourites and outsprinted Sharon van Essen and Suzanne de Goede to win the title.[30] On 28 June 2006 Vos was named Dutch Sports Talent of the year 2006 in front of pentathlete Laurien Hoos and gymnast Epke Zonderland. The additional award was handed to her by former swimming star Erica Terpstra.[31]
A few weeks later she was strongest in the Omloop van Valkenburg where she again finished in front of de Goede.[32] She still had the age of a junior and took part in the European road race championship in Valkenburg. She won the sprint against Italy's Tatiana Guderzo.[33] She went on to win two stages and overall in the Tour Féminin en Limousin.[34] In July, she won criteriums in Steenwijk, Draai van de Kaai, Oostvoorne and Pijnackerow.[35]
In August, she signed a five-year deal with the Dutch Team DSB-Ballast Nedam.[36] It wasn't long before she won her first race with DSB. At the end of the 4th stage of the Trophée d'Or Féminin Vos beat Tanja Schmidt-Hennes.[37]
With the silver medal won in 2005 in mind, Vos returned to Salzburg for the senior road race at the World Championship of road cycling. Vos remained in the bunch until Nicole Cooke started the action in the fifth of six laps. Cooke attacked on the second climb and only Nicole Brändli and Vos were able to catch her. A few others came back a few kilometres later. Judith Arndt left the group by herself. Vos made the jump to Arndt and they led for a few minutes until the chasers came back. From then, the group stayed together apart from attacks on either the flat road or the second climb. The race went to a sprint of 15 riders, Vos taking another rainbow jersey.[38]
In the 2006 UCI Cyclo-cross European Championships Vos won a bronze medal behind Daphny van den Brand and Hanka Kupfernagel.[39]
2007
Vos won La Flèche Wallonne Féminine and the Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt World Cup events before going on to win the series overall. She also finished second in the Road Race World Championships, conceding her title to Marta Bastianelli of Italy who broke away in the last 15 km of the race.
2008
Vos added a track cycling work title to her list when she won the Women's Points Race at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In doing so, she became the first woman to have held world championship titles on the road, track and cyclo-cross. Vos became Olympic points race champion at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
2009
In 2009, Vos started by winning the Cyclo-cross world championships. She also had success on the road, as she won La Flèche Wallonne Féminine for the third time.
Outside sports
Vos is an ambassador for Youth United for Sri Lanka (YU4SL), set up by young people to help underprivileged people in Sri Lanka. Speed skater Ireen Wüst and other Dutch celebrities joined Vos as an ambassador.[40]
Her cat Chiapoessie is named after former Italian road racer Claudio Chiappucci (poes is Dutch for cat).[41]
Achievements
Marianne Vos's palmarès, a list of her main achievements:[42][43]
- 2002
- 1st Dutch National Mountain Biking Championships (Junior)
- 1st Dutch National Road Race Championships (Junior)
- 2nd Dutch National Time Trial Championships (Junior)
- 2003
- 1st Dutch National Mountain Biking Championships (Junior)
- 2nd Dutch National Time Trial Championships (Junior)
- 2004
- 1st Cyclo-cross race in Gieten
- 3rd Dutch National Road Race Championships (Junior)
- 3rd Dutch National Time Trial Championships (Junior)
- 1st Cyclo-cross race in Surhuisterveen
- 1st Cyclo-cross race in Pijnacker-Nootdorp
- 1st Dutch National Mountain Biking Championships (Junior)
- 1st UCI Road World Championships - Junior Women's Road Race
- 2005
- 2nd UCI Road World Championships - Junior Women's Road Race (Juniors)
- 1st European Championship Cyclo-cross
- 2nd Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st Dutch National Road Race Championships (Juniors)
- 3rd Dutch National Time Trial Championships (Juniors)
- 1st Dutch National Mountain Biking Championships (Juniors)
- 1st Mountain Bike World Cup meeting in Houffalize (Juniors)
- 1st Mountain Bike race in Heeswijk
- 1st Omloop van Borsele
- 1st Cyclo-cross race in Harderwijk
- 1st Cyclo-cross race in Sumar
- 1st Cyclo-cross race in Gieten
- 1st Cyclo-cross race in Loenhout
- 2006
- 1st
UCI Road Race World Championships - 1st UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
- 1st European Road Race Championships
- 3rd UCI Cyclo-cross European Championships
- 1st Dutch National Road Race Championships
- 2nd Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st Cyclo-cross race in Pétange
- 1st Stage 5, Gracia-Orlova
- 1st Omloop van Borsele
- 1st Stage 1, Emakumeen Bira
- 1st Omloop van Valkenburg
- 1st Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin
- 1st Stage 1, Tour Féminin en Limousin
- 1st Stage 3, Tour Féminin en Limousin
- 1st Criterium Steenwijk
- 1st Draai van de Kaai
- 1st Criterium Oostvoorne
- 1st Criterium Pijnacker
- 1st Stage 4, Trophée d'Or Féminin
- 2007
- 1st UCI Women's Road World Cup
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (World Cup)
- 1st Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt (World Cup)
- 1st Ronde van Gelderland (1.2 W)
- 1st Overall, Giro di San Marino (2.1 W)
- 1st Stage 1 ITT, Giro di San Marino (2.1 W)
- 1st Stage 2, Giro di San Marino (2.1 W)
- 1st Stage 3, Giro di San Marino (2.1 W)
- 1st Omloop van Borsele (1.2 W)
- 1st Stage 1, Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin (2.1 W)
- 1st Stage 2, Emakumeen Bira (2.1 W)
- 1st Stage 3, Emakumeen Bira (2.1 W)
- 2nd Overall, Emakumeen Bira (2.1 W)
- 1st Stage 2, Giro d'Italia Femminile (2.1 W)
- 2nd UCI Road World Championships
- 2008
- 1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Points Race
Gold Olympic Games - Points race- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 1st Dutch National Road Race Championships
- 2nd UCI Road World Championships
- 2009
- 1st UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 1st Dutch National Road Race Championships
- 2nd UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Holland Ladies Tour
- 2010
- 1st UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
- 1st Dutch National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen voor Vrouwen
- 2nd UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Holland Ladies Tour
- 2011
- 1st Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
- 1st UCI Track World Championships, Scratch race
- 3rd Ronde van Vlaanderen voor Vrouwen
- 1st Ronde van Drenthe
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 1st Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- 1st Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Holland Ladies Tour
- 2nd UCI Road World Championships
External links
- Official Marianne Vos website
- Marianne Vos profile at CycleBase.nl
- Marianne Vos profile at Cycling Archives
References
- ^ a b "Athlete Biography - VOS Marianne". Beijing Olympics official website. http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/8/217858.shtml.
- ^ a b Persoonlijke gegevens Marianne Vos, mariannevos.nl
- ^ a b c d e Mountain bike results, mariannevos.nl
- ^ NK NEDERLAND NIEUWELINGEN 2002, cyclebase.nl
- ^ NK NEDERLAND TIJDRIT NIEUWELINGEN 2002, cyclebase.nl
- ^ NK NEDERLAND TIJDRIT NIEUWELINGEN 2003, cyclebase.nl
- ^ Gieten, Cyclocross (V) 2004, dewielersite.net
- ^ NK NEDERLAND JUNIOREN 2004, cyclebase.nl
- ^ NK NEDERLAND TIJDRIT JUNIOREN 2004, cyclebase.nl
- ^ Surhuisterveen Centrumcross (V) 2004, dewielersite.net
- ^ Pijnacker-Nootdorp, Cyclocross (V) 2004, dewielersite.net
- ^ a b Vrooming Vos wins Junior crown, eurosport.com, 1 October 2004
- ^ a b Sport FM Verkiezing, mariannevos.nl
- ^ NK NEDERLAND JUNIOREN 2005, cyclebase.nl
- ^ NK NEDERLAND TIJDRIT JUNIOREN 2005, cyclebase.nl
- ^ NK Cyclocross, Elite, Nederland (V) 2005, dewielersite.net
- ^ OMLOOP VAN BORSELE 2005, cyclebase.nl
- ^ 2005 Junior World Championships Day 6 (Road Races), britishcycling.org
- ^ Harderwijk, Cyclocross (V) 2005, dewielersite.net
- ^ Suameer (Ned) 15 October 2005, mariannevos.nl
- ^ European Cyclo-Cross Championships 2005, britishcycling.org
- ^ Gieten, Cyclocross (V) 2005, dewielersite.net
- ^ Loenhout, Cyclocross (V) 2005, dewielersite.net
- ^ Pétange, cyclocross (V) 2006, dewielersite.net
- ^ NK Cyclocross, Elite, Nederland (V) 2006, dewielersite.nl
- ^ Vos takes Cyclo-cross world championships at the line, cyclingnews.com, 29 January 2006
- ^ Gracia - Orlova (V) 2006, dewielersite.net
- ^ OMLOOP VAN BORSELE 2006, cyclebase.nl
- ^ Emakumeen Bira (V) 2006, dewielersite.net
- ^ NK NEDERLAND 2006, cyclebase.nl
- ^ Vos gekozen tot Talent van het Jaar, wielerrevue.nl, 28 June 2006
- ^ OMLOOP VAN VALKENBURG 2006, cyclebase.nl
- ^ EK op de weg, Beloften (V) 2006, dewielersite.net
- ^ Tour Féminin en Limousin 2006, dewielersite.net
- ^ Marianne Vos:Wielrennen, mariannevos.nl
- ^ Vos with DSB for five years, cyclingnews.com, 7 August 2006
- ^ Trophée d'Or Féminin 2006, dewielersite.net
- ^ Vos takes her second rainbow in a year, cyclingnews.com, 23 September 2006
- ^ EC Cyclo-cross 2006, wielercomite-huybergen.nl
- ^ Cooperation of our YU4SL ambassadors, yu4sl.com
- ^ Interview on NOS Studio Sport, omroep.nl
- ^ Uitslagen van Marianne Vos, Dewielersite.net
- ^ Marianne Vos Results, cyclebase.nl
Sporting positions Preceded by
Regina SchleicherWorld Road Race Champion
2006Succeeded by
Marta BastianelliPreceded by
Hanka KupfernagelWorld Cyclo-cross Champion
2006Succeeded by
Maryline SalvetatPreceded by
Hanka KupfernagelWorld Cyclo-cross Champion
2009-2011Succeeded by
IncumbentPreceded by
Nicole CookeUCI Women's Road World Cup Champion
2007Succeeded by
Nicole CookePreceded by
Nicole CookeUCI Women's Road World Cup Champion
2009-2010Succeeded by
IncumbentAwards Preceded by
Marleen VeldhuisDutch Sportswoman of the Year
2008 – 2009Succeeded by
Nicolien SauerbreijCategories:- 1987 births
- Living people
- Dutch cyclists
- Cyclo-cross cyclists
- Female cyclists
- UCI World Champions
- Sportspeople of multiple sports
- People from 's-Hertogenbosch
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in cycling
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