2000s In 2002, she won two national championships and finished second in another. 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 2003 Vos successfully defended her national junior mountain bike title. In 2004, Vos excelled in cyclo-cross for the first time when she won her first international race in
Gieten, beating
Birgit Hollmann and
Arenda Grimberg. She finished third in the Dutch junior road race and time trial, unable to beat
Ellen van Dijk who won both events. Continuing her cyclo-cross season she added wins in
Surhuisterveen and
Pijnacker–
Nootdorp. In the last she beat
Hanka Kupfernagel and
Daphny van den Brand. For the third straight time she became Dutch junior champion in mountain biking before heading to
Verona for the junior road world championship. At the end of 2004 Vos was elected
Sport FM Sportswoman of the year 2004. In 2005, junior world champion Vos claimed her first Dutch junior national road title in front of 2004 champion Ellen van Dijk. Van Dijk was able to defend her time trial title successfully before Maxime Groenewegen, while Vos finished third again. Participating as a senior at the Dutch cyclo-cross championship Vos finished second behind Daphny van den Brand. She then won her fourth Dutch junior mountain bike title, before winning a junior World Cup meeting in
Houffalize. Including Vos's world championship in 2004 the Netherlands had won the last three editions of the junior championship (the others being
Loes Markerink in 2002 and
Suzanne de Goede in 2003). Vos competed in cyclo-cross again. Six weeks after her silver medal in Salzburg she won in
Harderwijk and
Suameer. Her next aim was the European cyclo-cross championship in
Pontchâteau, France. She started in the elite field and was expected to assist Daphny van den Brand but instead beat the favourites, including van den Brand who won silver. After the European championship she won two cyclo-crosses in
Gieten and
Loenhout. Vos was named
Sport FM Sportswoman of the year 2005. Less than a week later, the Dutch championship in
Huijbergen was again a clash between Vos and van den Brand, this time van den Brand became champion while Vos took silver. Vos then concentrated on the world cyclo-cross championship in her own country, in
Zeddam. On 29 January 2006 she was in excellent form, with only Hanka Kupfernagel and Daphny van den Brand able to catch her. Van den Brand changed bikes and lost her lead, finishing one minute behind to take bronze. The gold medal was decided in the last metres when Vos outsprinted Kupfernagel. During the 2006 road season Vos took part in the
Gracia–Orlová Tour in the Czech Republic and won the 5th stage, 2:20 ahead of the pack. In that same week she won the
Omloop van Borsele for the second time in a row, beating
Vera Koedooder and
Bertine Spijkerman. In Spain she took part in the
Emakumeen Bira and won the 1st stage. She then travelled back to the Netherlands for the national road championship in
Maastricht. Vos cycled in a group containing all the favourites for the race and outsprinted
Sharon van Essen and
Suzanne de Goede to win the title. On 28 June 2006 Vos was named
Dutch Sports Talent of the year 2006 ahead of pentathlete
Laurien Hoos and gymnast
Epke Zonderland. The additional award was handed to her by former swimming star
Erica Terpstra. A few weeks later she was strongest in the Omloop van Valkenburg where she again finished in front of de Goede. Vos was still in the junior age category and took part in the European road race championship in
Valkenburg. She won the sprint against Italy's
Tatiana Guderzo. She went on to win two stages and overall in the
Tour Féminin en Limousin. In July, she won
criteriums in
Steenwijk,
Draai van de Kaai,
Oostvoorne and
Pijnackerow. In August 2006, she signed a five-year deal with the Dutch team DSB–Ballast Nedam. It wasn't long before she won her first race with DSB. At the end of the 4th stage of the
Trophée d'Or Féminin Vos beat
Tanja Schmidt-Hennes. With the silver medal won in 2005 in mind, Vos returned to Salzburg for the senior road race at the
world road race championship. Vos remained in the bunch until
Nicole Cooke started the action in the fifth of six laps. Cooke attacked on the second climb and only
Nicole Brändli and Vos were able to catch her. A few others came back a few kilometres later.
Judith Arndt left the group by herself. Vos made the jump to Arndt and they led for a few minutes until the chasers came back. From then, the group stayed together apart from attacks on either the flat road or the second climb. The race went to a sprint of 15 riders, with Vos taking another
rainbow jersey. In the
European cyclo-cross championship Vos won a bronze medal behind
Daphny van den Brand and
Hanka Kupfernagel. In 2007, Vos won
La Flèche Wallonne Féminine and the
Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt World Cup events before going on to win the series overall. She also finished second in the
road race world championships, conceding her title to
Marta Bastianelli of Italy who broke away in the last 15 km of the race. In 2008, Vos added a track cycling world title to her list when she won the
women's points race at the
track cycling world championships. In doing so, she became the first woman to have held world championship titles on the road, track and cyclo-cross. Vos became
Olympic points race champion at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing. at the
2011 UCI Road World Championships;
Giorgia Bronzini (1), Marianne Vos (2) and
Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (3)In 2012, Vos won the world cyclo-cross championship again. On the road, she recorded wins at the
Ronde van Drenthe and the
Trofeo Alfredo Binda, but fractured her collarbone after colliding with a motorcycle during the
Valkenburg Hills Classic on 25 May. Although she was still able to finish the race in second place and did not require surgery, she did not resume racing until the Dutch
national championships on 23 June in which she finished second, 3 seconds behind
Annemiek van Vleuten. She then raced in the
Giro Donne, where for the second year running she won five stages and the general classification. On 29 July she won gold in the
London Olympic Games road race winning the sprint from a 3-woman breakaway which formed following the final lap of the
Box Hill, Surrey circuit on the return to London. She finished 16th in the
time trial. In September, Vos won her second road race world title in
Valkenburg, Netherlands after five second places in a row (2007–2011). In 2013, Vos started off her year with yet another dominant performance at the 2013 cyclo-cross world championships, winning her fifth world championship in a row, and her sixth overall. Vos took little time off after her unprecedented fifth consecutive title, winning mountain bike races and then taking her first win at the
Tour of Flanders by outsprinting
Ellen van Dijk. On 28 September Vos won another
world road race championship after riding away from her challengers on a steep climb in the final lap of the course in Florence, Italy. She finished 15 seconds ahead of the second and third placed riders. .In 2014, Vos started the year with a record seventh world championship in cyclo-cross. Six of those titles were consecutive. Later in the year, she won the
Giro d'Italia Femminile and the first edition of
La Course. La Course took place on the last day of the
Tour de France for men. The women's race was launched after a successful petition by
Le Tour Entier, a group led by Marianne Vos,
Emma Pooley,
Kathryn Bertine and
Chrissie Wellington. She also won the first edition of
The Women's Tour. The rest of her 2015 season was plagued by a persisting hamstring injury. She later announced she was overtrained and would not participate in the 2015–2016 cyclo-cross season. .In 2016, Vos recovered and won her first
World Tour race in stage 3 of the
Tour of California. She was one of four women selected for the Dutch national team for the
2016 Summer Olympics that same month. She finished in 9th place in the
Olympic road race, which was won by her teammate
Anna van der Breggen. At the end of the year, Vos was the individual champion of the
UCI Women's World Tour. and the UCI Women's World Cup leader's jersey. Her bike also has gold detailing denoting she is the reigning Olympic Champion.
2020s In 2020, Vos won the points classification at the
Giro Rosa, as well as 3 stage wins. Vos participated in first edition of
Tour de France Femmes. She won stage 2 to Provins, defeating
Katarzyna Niewiadoma,
Elisa Longo Borghini and
Silvia Persico in the sprint. This gave her the overall lead and made her holder of the yellow jersey. She also took the early lead in the points classification. She then won Stage 6 from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges to Rosheim, gaining a comfortable lead in the points classification and making Tour de France history by being the first woman to win a stage while wearing the yellow jersey. As a result, she extended her lead to +0:30 over both Niewiadoma and Persico. She fell out of contention for the yellow jersey after stage 7, but still maintained the lead in the points classification. Even though she had led this classification for several stages, she would wear the green jersey for the first time on the final day of the race. Ultimately, Vos finished 26th in the general classification, 36 mins and 56 secs behind winner
Annemiek van Vleuten. In 2023, Vos won the points classification at
La Vuelta Femenina, as well as two stages. Vos abandoned the
2023 Tour de France Femmes after six stages in anticipation of the
world road race championship – however she finished 47th, nearly 15 minutes behind the winner. In 2024, Vos won the
Amstel Gold Race for the second time. At
La Vuelta Femenina, Vos won the points classification for the second year in succession, as well as winning two stages. At the
Paris 2024 Olympic Games women's road race, Vos won a silver medal by beating
Lotte Kopecky in a sprint for second place. At the
Tour de France Femmes, Vos won the points classification for the second time. ==Outside sports==