She stayed clear and became world champion. Aged 17 and a first-year junior, Vos broke away in the final of five laps on the climb. For the third straight time she became Dutch junior champion in mountain biking before heading to Verona for the junior road world championship. In the last she beat Hanka Kupfernagel and Daphny van den Brand. Continuing her cyclo-cross season she added wins in Surhuisterveen and Pijnacker- Nootdorp. She finished third in the Dutch junior road race and time trial, unable to beat Ellen van Dijk who won both events. 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. RIDERS REPUBLIC JUMBO BIKE TRIALAt the time trial championships she again finished second, this time behind Maxime Groenewegen while 2002 champion Roxane Knetemann finished fourth. In 2003 Vos successfully defended her national junior mountain bike title. 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. In 2002, she won two national championships and finished second in another. At 14 she replaced inline skating with mountain biking. Vos also participated in speed skating and inline speed skating. When she was eight, she was able to ride races. At first she trained with her brother's team as she was not allowed to participate in races during the winter she started training in cyclo-cross as well. She started her career when she was six years old after watching her older brother who was already a cyclist. Marianne Vos was born in 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant and lives in the small village of Babyloniënbroek. Vos has drawn comparison to Eddy Merckx as being "the finest cyclist of generation". 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. She has 24 races at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup, and claimed the first place overall in the 2018–19 season. She has multiple wins at the Giro Rosa, 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. 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. Vos added track racing World Championships when she won the points race in 2008 and the scratch race in 2011. Īfter 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.
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