Vos at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships.
Personal information
Full name
Marianne Vos
Nickname
The Cannibal[1]
Born
(1987-05-13) 13 May 1987 (age 36) 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Height
1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[2]
Weight
58 kg (128 lb)[2]
Team information
Current team
Visma–Lease a Bike
Disciplines
Road Cyclo-cross Mountain biking Track
Role
Rider
Rider type
All-rounder
Professional teams
2006–2020
DSB–Ballast Nedam[3][4]
2021–
Team Jumbo–Visma
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
World Championships (2006, 2009–2014, 2022)
European Championships (2005, 2009)
National Championships (2011–2015, 2017, 2022)
World Cup (2018–19)
Road
Major Tours
Tour de France Femmes
Points classification (2022)
2 individual stages (2022)
Giro d'Italia Femminile
General classification (2011, 2012, 2014)
Points classification (2007, 2010–2014, 2020)
Mountains classification (2011)
Young rider classification (2010)
32 individual stages
La Vuelta Femenina
Points classification (2023)
3 individual stages (2023 2024)
Stage races
Emakumeen Bira (2008, 2011)
Holland Ladies Tour (2009–2012)
The Women's Tour (2014)
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs (2012, 2013)
Ladies Tour of Norway (2017, 2018, 2019)
One-day races and Classics
Olympic Games Road Race (2012)
World Road Race Championships (2006, 2012, 2013)
National Road Race Championships (2006, 2008, 2009, 2011)
National Time Trial Championships (2010, 2011)
Tour of Flanders (2013)
La Flèche Wallonne (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013)
Trofeo Alfredo Binda (2009, 2010, 2012, 2019)
GP de Plouay (2012, 2013)
La Course by Le Tour de France (2014, 2019)
Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik (2011, 2014, 2017)
Open de Suède Vårgårda (2009, 2013, 2018)
Ronde van Drenthe (2011, 2012, 2013)
Amstel Gold Race (2021, 2024)
Gent–Wevelgem (2021)
GP Ciudad de Valladolid (2011)
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs (2011)
Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt (2007)
Sparkassen Giro Bochum (2014)
Medal record
Representing the Netherlands
Women's Cyclo-cross
World Championships
2006 Zeddam
Elite
2009 Hoogerheide
Elite
2010 Tábor
Elite
2011 Sankt Wendel
Elite
2012 Koksijde
Elite
2013 Louisville
Elite
2014 Hoogerheide
Elite
2022 Fayetteville
Elite
2008 Treviso
Elite
2017 Bieles
Elite
2015 Tábor
Elite
2019 Bogense
Elite
European Championships
2005 Pontchâteau
Elite
2009 Hoogstraten
Elite
2003 Tábor
Elite
2018 Rosmalen
Elite
2006 Huijbergen
Elite
Women's Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
2012 London
Road race
World Championships
2006 Salzburg
Road race
2012 Valkenburg
Road race
2013 Tuscany
Road race
2007 Stuttgart
Road race
2008 Varese
Road race
2009 Mendrisio
Road race
2010 Geelong
Road race
2011 Copenhagen
Road race
2013 Florence
Team Time Trial
2021 Flanders
Road race
European Games
2019 Minsk
Road race
European Championships
2006 Valkenburg
Road race
2007 Sofia
Road race
2017 Herning
Road race
2018 Glasgow
Road race
2009 Hooglede-Gits
Road race
2009 Hooglede-Gits
Time Trial
Women's Track cycling
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing
Points race
World Championships
2008 Manchester
Points race
2011 Apeldoorn
Scratch
Marianne Vos (pronunciationⓘ; born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike.[5][6]
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".[7]
^Cary, Tom (5 May 2014). "All-conquering 'Cannibal' Marianne Vos is still hungry for success". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
^ ab"Athlete Biography – VOS Marianne". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 1 September 2008.
^"CCC-Liv Team Unveils Competition Kit". Liv Cycling UK. Giant UK Ltd. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
^"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.
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