Back ماريان فوس Arabic ماريان فوس ARZ Marianne Vos AST Марыяна Вос Byelorussian Marianne Vos Catalan Marianne Vosová Czech Marianne Vos Welsh Marianne Vos Danish Marianne Vos German Marianne Vos Spanish
Marianne Vos (ⓘ; born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike.[7][8]
After winning a junior European and World Championship in road racing, she continued her success 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. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the points race; at the 2012 Summer Olympics, gold in the women's road race. She is a 3 times World Road Race Champion – in 2006, 2012 and 2013 – and 8 times World Cyclo-cross Champion – in 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2022.
She has multiple wins at the Giro Donne, Holland Ladies Tour, Ladies Tour of Norway, La Flèche Wallonne, Ronde van Drenthe, Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, Emakumeen Euskal Bira and GP de Plouay – Bretagne; also she ranked first in points in the UCI Women's Road World Cup five times and in the 2019 UCI Women's World Tour. She has 24 races at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup, and claimed the first place overall in the 2018–19 season.
Vos was a founding member of Le Tour Entier, which campaigned for a Women's Tour de France and improvements to women's cycling generally. Vos has drawn comparison to Eddy Merckx as being "the finest cyclist of [her] generation".[9]
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- ^ "Marianne Vos extends contract through 2025, says her "own development is still ongoing"". Cycling Weekly. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
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- ^ a b "Athlete Biography – VOS Marianne". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 1 September 2008.
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- ^ "Bertizzolo lands at CCC-Liv after Movistar contract problems". Cyclingnews.com. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ "Jumbo-Visma Women Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Marianne Vos to spearhead Jumbo-Visma women's team in 2021". Cyclingnews.com. 19 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ Fotheringham, William (29 July 2012). "London 2012: Lizzie Armitstead strikes Olympic silver on a soggy Mall". The Guardian.