Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Video Marianne Vos was elected Cyclist of the Year at the Cycling Gala in Utrecht. The 37-year-old rider received the Keetie van Oosten-Hage Trophy for the tenth (!) time. And Vos is obviously very happy with that. “It is of course very special,” she said during the Night of Woerden CyclingFlits.
“With so many top players and top performances, it is already nice to have a nomination in your pocket. I am very happy with my season. Of course, you cannot control elections, but I am very happy with the Keetie van Oosten-Hage Trophy.”
Remarkable: after ten years, Vos was once again voted the best Dutch cyclist. “The last one was indeed a long time ago. Then of course becoming cyclist of the year is not something you are immediately concerned with. But with a season like that you can only be very happy. As I just said, so many top players have emerged in the past ten years. To be nominated and to go home with the prize is very nice.”
Vos won a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Paris – photo: Cor Vos
Very successful season
For Vos, the 2024 cycling season will go down as the year in which she finished second at the Olympic Games and won the World Cup on clay, but the Visma rider | Lease a Bike showed much more. In the spring, Vos already won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen and the Amstel Gold Race. The Dutch were also close in Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders, with two fourth places.
Later she would also win the points classification in the Tour, although she did not win a stage. She also won the Tour of Catalonia, the points classification (thanks to two stage victories) in the Vuelta a España and she came eighth at the World Road Championships in Zurich.
Last ten winners of the Keetie van Oosten-Hage Trophy
2024: Marianne Vos
2023: Demi Vollering
2022: Annemiek van Vleuten
2021: Annemiek van Vleuten
2020: Anna van der Breggen
2019: Annemiek van Vleuten
2018: Anna van der Breggen
2017: Annemiek van Vleuten
2016: Anna van der Breggen
2015: Anna van der Breggen
2014: Marianne Vos
