Marianne Vos

Nick Name

: The Cannibal

Born

:13 May,1987

Age

:32 years, 3 months

Location

:'s-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands

Website

: http://www.mariannevosofficial.com/

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About Marianne Vos

Marianne Vos is a Dutch cyclo-cross, road bicycle racer, mountain bike racer and track racer who has drawn comparison to Eddy Merckx as being "the finest cyclist of [her] generation".

Career Highlights:

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; in 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 7 times World Cyclocross Champion – in 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

2002

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,while she finished second in the Dutch time trial championship behind Roxane Knetemann.

2003

In 2003 Vos successfully defended her national junior mountain bike title.At the time trial championships she again finished second, this time behind Maxime Groenewegen while 2002 champion Roxane Knetemann finished fourth.

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.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. At the end of 2004 Vos was elected Sport FM Sportswoman of the year 2004.

2005

As junior world champion Vos claimed her first Dutch junior national road title in front of 2004 champion Ellen van Dijk.Van Dijk was able to defend her time trial title successfully before Maxime Groenewegen, while Vos finished third again.Participating as a senior at the Dutch cyclo-cross championship Vos finished second behind Daphny van den Brand.She then won her fourth Dutch junior mountain bike title, before winning a junior World Cup meeting in Houffalize.

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 world 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. Later that year, she finished second in the UCI Road World Championships.

2010

In 2010, Vos again won the silver medal in the UCI Road World Championships, but became world champion Cyclo-cross again.

2011

Vos captured her fifth consecutive silver medal at the UCI Road World Championships. She won the scratch race in the UCI Track World Championships, and the world cyclo-cross championship.Vos was appointed as a member of the inaugural UCI Athletes' Commission in 2011.

2012

In 2012, Vos won the world cyclo-cross championship again. On the road, she recorded wins at the Ronde van Drenthe and the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, but fractured her collarbone after colliding with a motorcycle during the Valkenburg Hills Classic on 25 May.

2013

In 2013, Vos started off her year with yet another dominant performance at the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships, winning her fifth World Championship in a row, and her sixth overall. Vos took little time off after her unprecedented fifth consecutive title, winning mountain bike races and then taking her first win at the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) by outsprinting Ellen van Dijk On 28 September Vos won another UCI world road race championship after riding away from her challengers on a steep climb in the final lap of the Florence, Italy, course. She finished 15 seconds ahead of the second and third placed riders.

2014

Vos started the year with another world championship in cyclocross. She then won Giro d'Italia Femminile and La Course.