The Unstoppable Ms. Vos

Can Vos be beaten in CX?
(image credit: Nicola CC BY-SA 3.0)

Rabobank's star rider Marianne Vos has scored a fourteenth consecutive victory, winning the Elite Women class at the Grote Prijs Skidôme Rucphen cyclo cross ahead of Daphny van den Brand and Nikki Harris on a muddy and windswept parcours.

Of course, many riders would want to take it easy today, with the Hoogerheide round of the CX World Cup scheduled for tomorrow; but not Vos - or perhaps she wins even when she's taking it easy? That the multiple World and National Champion even shows up at a relatively minor event such as this to race in front of small numbers of spectators is as admirable as her extensive palmares, and evidence of her great love for the sport.

Bart Aernouts won the Elite Men's race, Max Gulickx won the Novices race, Koen Weijers won among the Juniors and Freek de Jonge was the victorious Amateur.

Elite Women
1 Marianne Vos
2 Daphny van den Brand
3 Nikki Harris
4 Reza Hormes Raven Stijn
5 Arenda Grimberg
6 Asa Maria Erlandsson
7 Nancy Bober
8 Yara Kastelijn
9 Kajsa Snihs
10 Iris Ockeloen
11 Christine Vardaros
12 Ayako Toyooka
13 Nicolle De Bie Leyten
14 Lotte Eikelenboom

Elite Men

1 Bart Aernouts
2 Mariusz Gil
3 Tom Meeusen
4 Gerben De Knegt
5 Lars Van Der Haar
6 Jim Aernouts
7  Dave De Cleyn
8 Stan Godrie
9 Joeri Adams
10 Floris De Tier
11 Jiri Polnicky
12 Niels Wubben
13 Jens Adams
14 Sven Beelen
16 Patrick Van Leeuwen
17 Diether Sweeck
18 Vincent Baestaens
19 Isaac Suarez
20 Magnus Darvell
21 Daniel Peeters
22 Jonas Pedersen
23 Yu Takenouchi
24 Kristof Cop
25 Ingmar Uytdewilligen


Amateurs
1 Freek de Jonge
2 Ivar Hartogs
3 Eddie van der Grijn
4 Gerard Kooistra
5 Roel van Houtum
6 Dennis Moolhuijsen
7 Atse Ten Brinke
8 Tom van Braak
9 Marcel Scheffer
10 Ronald Kolkman
11 Micha de Vries
12 Lars Rietveld
13 Patrick de Laat

Juniors
1 Koen Weijers
2 Kevin Suarez Martinez
3 Onno Verheyen
4 Dennis Wahlqvist
5 Richard Jansen
6 Emil Linde
7 Stig Callay
8 Robbie van Bakel
9. Kevin Dupont
10 Koen van de Ven
11 Jelle Vanden Dries


Novices
1 Max Gulickx
2 Bram Welten
3 Sieben Wouters
4 Vincent Peeters
5 Jordi Talen
6 Kelvin Bakx
7 Sjoerd van de Stelt
8 Kevin van Bennekom
9 David Hockx
10 Thomas Visser
11 Bob Olieslagers
12 Wesley Floren
13 Erik Boer
14 Tommie Bone
15 Sjoerd Bax
16 Yorick Verberne
17 Ruben Bekkers
18 Lars Akkermans
19 Olaf Remmerswaal
20 Thom Martens
21 Teun van de Ven
22 Ruben De Goede
23 Tim Kouwenhoven