Cyclist Marianne Vos took the world cyclo cross title in Tabor, Czech Republic at the weekend, seeing off Germany’s Hanka Kupfernagel and team mate Daphny van den Brand who took silver and bronze.

Vos, 22, won the world cyclo cross title first in 2006 and again last year.
According to website Bike World News Vos showed a ‘dominating performance that left the rest of the world’s best in her wake’ and ‘used handling skills and a supreme level of confidence to dive into corners and power out of them, gaining time on her rivals with every turn.’
Cyclo cross is a mass bike race consisting of many laps of a short course including wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles, sometimes requiring cyclists to dismount and carry their bikes.