Marianne Vos
Nationality: Dutch
Date of birth: 13/05/1987
Height: 1.68m
Weight: 58kg
Team: CCC Liv
Twitter: @marianne-Vos
World and Olympic champion across a variety of cycling disciplines, Marianne Vos is widely regarded as one of the greatest cyclists of all time. She won her first World cyclo-cross and road championships at the age of 19. She has also since won the rainbow stripes on the track.
Vos is an Olympic champion in the road race, having previously won gold on the track at Beijing in the points race. Vos has also won the cyclo cross world title and every major race on the women's calendar.
Vos was born in 's-Hertogenbosch and grew up watching her older brother race. She began training with his team and also pursued speed skating, before focusing on mountain biking.
Her career has been one of dominance. She has won three World Road Race titles and a staggering seven World Cyclo-cross Championships. Classics campaigns have also been a solid focus throughout Vos' career. She has won Ronde van Drenthe, Gent-Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, La Fléche Wallone and GP de Plouay.Not limited to one day races, she has also won the Giro Rosa three times, The Women's Tour and the Ladies Tour of Norway.
With showing no signs of slowing down, she took 19 wins in 2019. She has recently been marred with injury, with a collarbone break at the Tour of Britain and will undergo surgery to connect a nod in an artery.
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'If I can have another day, start another race, I'm grateful for that': Coryn Labecki on racing with Marianne Vos, her family’s COVID tragedy, and her new outlook on life
We sat down with former Flanders winner, Coryn Labecki, to talk about finding her place in the Jumbo-Visma squad, her new outlook on life, racing with the GOAT — Marianne Vos
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Six Of The Best Women's WorldTour races of 2021
It’s been another fabulous year of women’s racing, most which we have been able to watch, here are our six favourites
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Van den Broek-Blaak takes the Simac Ladies Tour GC as Marianne Vos wins second consecutive stage
Sprinters’ teams make no mistake as the final stage ends in a bunch kick with British champion Alice Barnes second
By Owen Rogers • Published
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Marianne Vos wins a brilliantly entertaining stage of the Simac Ladies Tour as the GC is rearranged
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak finishes third and takes the overall lead with one stage remaining
By Owen Rogers • Published
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Alison Jackson makes it a day for the breakaway, winning stage one of the Simac Ladies Tour
After missing out twice in Norway, the sprint teams miscalculate again finishing four seconds back
By Owen Rogers • Published
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Marianne Vos dominates to win Simac Ladies Tour prologue
The Dutch superstar puts four seconds into her rivals at the start of the six-day race
By Owen Rogers • Published
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Mark Cavendish says Marianne Vos ‘has been an inspiration on so many levels’
Vos just claimed her 30th stage win in the Giro Donne, one of the biggest stage races on the calendar
By Alex Ballinger • Published
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Marianne Vos wins stage seven of Giro Donne, her 30th victory in the race
The Dutchwoman won her first stage of the race in 2007
By Owen Rogers • Published
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Marianne Vos masters the Giro Donne 2021 sprint to take her 29th stage victory
Overall leader Anna van der Breggen finished in the peloton and retains her lead with seven days remaining
By Owen Rogers • Published