Marianne Vos

Marianne Vos (; born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike under a lifetime contract. She has won 15 World Championships across four separate cycling disciplines – cyclo-cross, gravel, road and track. 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. On the road, Vos has won the World Road Race Championship 3 times (2006, 2012 and 2013). She has multiple wins at major road cycling events including the Giro d'Italia Women, La Flèche Wallonne, Amstel Gold Race and Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio; 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. Vos has also won the points classification at all three of the largest women's stage races – the Giro d'Italia Women, Tour de France Femmes and La Vuelta Femenina. Vos also won the Dutch National Road Race Championships 4 times and the Dutch National Time Trial Championships twice. In cyclo-cross, Vos has won the World Cyclo-cross Championship 8 times (2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2022), and the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships 7 times. In the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup, she has won 27 races, and claimed first place overall in the 2018–19 season. In gravel racing, Vos has won the World Gravel Championship twice (2024 and 2026). 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".

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