Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) added one other title to her lengthy listing of achievements, having secured the elite girls’s nationwide title on the Dutch Gravel Championships on Saturday in Epe.
Vos received the 70-kilometre race, attacking midway via the occasion, and completed solo, with Moniek Tenniglo taking second and Lorena Wiebes third in her final race for Staff DSM.
It was a last-minute choice for Vos to compete within the gravel nationwide championships occasion, and he or she famous that it match properly together with her preparations for the cyclo-cross season.
Marianne Vos, the reigning cyclo-cross World Champion, begins her cyclo-cross marketing campaign at Kiremko Nacht van Woerden on Tuesday, October 25.
She just lately competed on the UCI Street World Championships in Wollongong, Australia, on the finish of September after which took a brief break.
She didn’t take part within the inaugural UCI Gravel World Championships held in Veneto in October, received by Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (France).
In Woerden, Vos will make her debut in her rainbow jersey with Jumbo-Visma after successful a exceptional eighth cyclo-cross world title in Arkansas in January.
Beginning her cyclo-cross season later than most, Vos can be anticipated to compete on the Cyclo-cross World Cup Maasmechelen on October 30 after which the European Cyclo-cross Championships on November 5 in Namur.
“As evidenced by latest weeks, the extent is excessive. The competitors is on edge. I need to carry out properly, particularly in mild of the European Championships, which can happen on November 5 in Namur,” Vos stated.
She can even race at World Cup GP Beekse Bergen on November 13 within the Netherlands, Superprestige Merksplas on November 19 and World Cup Overijse on November 20.
“The [GP Beekse Bergen] course is unknown to everybody as a result of this can be a new cross on the calendar,” stated Vos. “I am trying ahead to this race. World Cup races within the Netherlands are additional particular. Particularly now that I get to start out within the rainbow jersey.”