From VeloNews

For the fourth time in her career and the third year in a row, Holland’s Marianne Vos won the world cyclocross championship, beating American Katie Compton and Czech Katerina Nash with a strong attack on the final lap of Sunday’s 40-minute event in Sankt Wendel, Germany.

Vos’ record now matches that of four-time women’s world cyclocross champion Hanka Kupfernagel, who despite a fast start struggled in with a fourth-place finish, 42 seconds behind the winner. Compton and Nash finished at 17 and 22 seconds, respectively.

Course conditions were similar to those in the junior men’s race on Saturday, with a slippery sheen of mud covering the otherwise-frozen surface.

Vos stayed near the front of the race from the start, locked firmly on Kupfernagel’s wheel as the German rocketed off the line to take an early lead in the six-lap event. Compton, mired in early traffic, steadily worked her way to the front and after lap 2, the three medalists moved ahead of the rest of the field.

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