Legends of Cross, Daphny van den Brand

The modern cross landscape of every cross having equally respected men's and women's races is simply the expected norm nowadays, we couldn't imagine it any other way, but not so long ago the landscape was very, very different. Daphny van den Brand played arguably the most significant role in getting women's cross off the ground, before going on to have arguably one of the best careers in the still short history of the women's side of the sport. So let's pay homage to one of cross greatest assets.

[@mrr2880]

Great channel.. love cross.. youtube sent me here..

[@veloCity127-g6m]

Great to see something from Daphny again. When my girlfriend at the time was looking for a cross bike and could hardly find anything because of her size, we saw Daphny's bike at a race and were approached by her husband / partner while talking about the bike and bought the bike at the end of the season in NL. You don't forget something like that .

[@breathestrongcycling3672]

i never realised the womens world champs are so recent. Never saw cross really, it wasn't a sport on the other side of the world where I'm from...NEW Zeeland 😉

[@TheFlyover]

It seems bizarre now but the worlds for women really are that new. Marianne Vos on her own has raced all but 5 of the worlds ever held, she's won a staggering 35% of the world titles for women ever awarded!