Marianne Vos

Marianne Vos ( born May 13, 1987 in 's- Hertogenbosch ) is a Dutch cyclist. She is the most successful and most versatile cyclist of the Netherlands and the 2000/2010-er years on the road, rail and Road Racing active. In 2008 she was Olympic champion in the points race on the track and 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the road race.

Cycling career

Since 2001, Marianne Vos is active in the power cycling. In 2002 she became Dutch Youth Champion in the road race, drove at that time, however, mainly cross-country race. In 2004 she was at the Road World Championships in Verona, Junior World Champion in the road race.

In 2006, Vos in the elite class of women; since she always drives on the same team, which bears the name Rabobank Women Cycling Team since 2012. At the beginning of 2006, she was European and World Champion in cross in front of the German Hanka copper nail. On the road, she won the Dutch Department of Radmeisterschaft, and in October she became world champion in the road race in Salzburg.

By 2013, Marianne Vos had a total of twelve World Championship title on rail, road and won in the cross-country race, as well as 16 national titles (including two tracks on a mountain bike ) and two European titles. Twice she won Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012 in the points race in the road race. Five times they won the World Cup women's cycling and twice the Giro d'Italia Femminile. They also won around 30 relevant road race. When she her title defense for the second time at the UCI Road World Championships 2013, baptized an English newspaper she Flying Dutch Woman: "She rode out with the No. 1 on her back and rode home with her position as the greatest female cyclist underlined [. ..]. "(engl. =" You went with the number 1 on her back out and came back after they had emphasized their position as the biggest female cyclist [ ... ]. " )

According to a Dutch columnist Vos was in 2011 not only the " best cyclist in history," the 've Leontien Zijlaard -van Moorsel and Jeannie Longo outflanked, but also the best athlete who had the Netherlands ever produced.

Honors

Between 2006 and 2013 Marianne Vos was awarded seven times as a Dutch cyclist of the year. 2008, 2009 and 2013, she was also in the Netherlands Sportswoman of the Year. 2013, it also received the international Velo Award for cyclist of the year.

Marianne Vox was honored with induction into the Hall of Fame of the European Cycling Union Union Européenne de Cyclisme.

For a list of the best hundred athletes from the Netherlands Marianne Vos was ranked in 2013 in 15th place

In February 2010, the Mayor announced their home community Aalbuurg, that there is named " Marianne Vos fietsroute " a 29.5 km long cycle path for her.

Team

  • 2006 DSB ballast
  • 2007-2009 DSB Bank
  • 2010-2011 Nederland bloeit
  • Since 2012 Rabobank Cycling Team Women

Success (selection)

  • World Champion in the road race ( junior women)
  • European Cross Country Champion
  • World Cross Country Champion
  • Dutch road champion
  • World Champion in the road race
  • Cross World Cup in Treviso
  • Cycling World Cup of Women
  • World champion in the points race
  • Olympic champion in the points race
  • La Flèche Wallonne
  • Trofeo Alfredo Binda - Comune di Cittiglio
  • Open de Suède Vårgårda
  • Cycling World Cup of Women
  • World Cross Country Champion
  • Trofeo Alfredo Binda - Comune di Cittiglio
  • Two stages Emakumeen Bira
  • Cycling World Cup of Women
  • World Cross Country Champion
  • Dutch Cross - Champion
  • World Cross Country Champion
  • World Champion Scratch
  • Ronde van Drenthe
  • La Flèche Wallonne
  • GP Ciudad de Valladolid
  • Dutch time trial champion
  • Dutch road champion
  • Giro d' Italia Femminile
  • Dutch Cross - Champion
  • World Cross Country Champion
  • Ronde van Drenthe
  • Trofeo Alfredo Binda - Comune di Cittiglio
  • Giro d' Italia Femminile
  • Olympic gold medalist in the road race
  • World Champion in the road race
  • Cycling World Cup of Women
  • Dutch Madison Champion
  • Dutch Cross - Champion
  • World Cross Country Champion
  • Ronde van Drenthe
  • Ronde van Vlaanderen
  • La Flèche Wallonne
  • Trophée d'Or Feminin
  • Open de Suède Vårgårda
  • Cycling World Cup of Women
  • World Champion in the road race
  • Dutch Cross - Champion
  • World Cross Country Champion
Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's points race Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics Hanka Kupfernagel UCI Women's Road World Cup 2006–07 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup 2007 UCI Women's Road World Cup 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio 2009 UCI Women's Road World Cup Emakumeen Euskal Bira 2010 UCI Women's Road World Cup 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's scratch 2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup 2013 UCI Women's Road World Cup Monique Knol Kathy Watt Sara Carrigan Nicole Cooke List of Olympic medalists in cycling (women) Nathalie Lancien Antonella Bellutti Olga Slyusareva Elsy Jacobs Yvonne Reynders Beryl Burton Audrey McElmury Tineke Fopma Josiane Bost Petra de Bruin Beth Heiden Mandy Jones Catherine Marsal Monica Valvik Barbara Heeb Alessandra Cappellotto Zinaida Stahurskaya Judith Arndt Regina Schleicher Sally Hodge Marion Clignet Vera Carrara Katherine Bates Tara Whitten Anna Millward Annemiek van Vleuten Bella van der Spiegel-Hage Hennie Top Connie Meijer Heleen Hage Mirjam Melchers Suzanne de Goede Marlijn Binnendijk Lucinda Brand Roberta Bonanomi Michela Fanini Fabiana Luperini Joane Somarriba Mara Abbott
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