2014 Tour of Beijing

2014 Tour of Beijing 2014 UCI World Tour 29 29 10–14 October 2014 5 km Philippe Gilbert Belgium BMC 2014 red Dan Martin Republic of Ireland GRS 2014 Esteban Chaves Colombia OGE 2014 Tyler Farrar United States GRS 2014 green Michał Gołaś Poland OPQ 2014 polkadot Esteban Chaves Colombia OGE 2014 white OGE 2014 2013 The 2014 Tour of Beijing was the fourth and final running of the Tour of Beijing stage race. It started on 10 October in Hebei's Chongli County and ended on 14 October at the Bird's Nest Piazza after five stages. It was the 29th and final race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season. At the 2014 UCI Road World Championships in September, cycling's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), decided that its race-organising subsidiary, Global Cycling Promotion, would not continue to organise the Tour of Beijing; the 2014 edition would be the final edition. UCI President Brian Cookson had criticised the subsidiary body during his election campaign,http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/brian-cookson-new-and-exciting-era-no-place-tour-of-beijing-137590 Brian Cookson: 'New and exciting era' does not have place for Tour of Beijing – Cycling Weekly 24 September 2014 Cycling Weekly and the Tour of Beijing was not seen as being well-liked by cyclists. According to Cycling Weekly, "Dull routes and an absence of roadside spectators meant the race failed to exhibit much of an atmosphere, and its position at the very end of the calendar made it even less appealing – a long flight eastwards after a whole season's racing is a very tough sell to exhausted cyclists dreaming of the winter off."http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/tour-beijing-2014-preview-139321 Tour of Beijing 2014 preview 9 October 2014 Cycling Weekly Some issues presented themselves before and during the race. On September 10 it emerged that Valentin Iglinsky of Astana Pro Team had returned a positive test for EPOhttp://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/CleanSport/16/67/88/20141009ADRVProvisionalSuspensionEN_English.pdf Archived copy 2014-10-12 2016-05-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20160509062900/http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/CleanSport/16/67/88/20141009ADRVProvisionalSuspensionEN_English.pdf dead at the Eneco Tour. He confessed to doping to the team and was immediately sacked,http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/valentin-iglinskiy-sacked-by-astana-after-positive-test Valentin Iglinskiy sacked by Astana after positive test Cyclingnews.com 10 September 2014 three weeks later Valentin's brother, Maxim Iglinsky was provisionally suspended by the UCI for an EPO positive on August 1.http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/maxim-iglinskiy-provisionally-suspended-for-epo Maxim Iglinskiy provisionally suspended for EPO Cyclingnews.com October 2014 It was later announced that Astana withdrew themselves from the Tour of Beijing in line with the Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible rules, which state that a team with two positives in a short period of time must not participate in the next World Tour event.http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/astana-withdraws-from-tour-of-beijing-following-maxim-iglinskiy-positive Astana withdraws from Tour of Beijing following Maxim Iglinskiy positive Cyclingnews.com 6 October 2014 7 October 2014 There was also the prospect of two Grand Tour winners – Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde attending the race with serious winning intentions – with Contador bidding to overhaul his fellow Spaniard Valverde's lead at the top of the overall points standings of the World Tour. However, the combination of Valverde's success and Contador's injury at the Giro di Lombardia, the previous race on the calendar, meant that in the end neither cyclist attended the Tour of Beijing. During the race, Beijing was hit with particularly strong pollution problems,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/china-pollution-levels-hit-20-times-safe-levels China pollution levels hit 20 times safe limit the Guardian 10 October 2014 and after complaints from cyclists, stage 2 of the Tour was shortened. Schedule StageDateCourseDistanceTypeWinner 1 10 October Chong Li to Zhangjiakou 167.0 km 1 on 20px|link=Flat stage Flat stage Luka Mezgec SLO 2 11 October Chong Li to Yanqing 111.0 km 1 on 22px|alt=|link= Flat stage Philippe Gilbert BEL 3 12 October Yanqing to Qianjiandian 176.0 km 1 on 22px|alt=|link= Medium mountain stage Tyler Farrar USA 4 13 October Yanqing to Mentougou Miaofeng Mountain 157.0 km 1 on 22px|alt=|link= Mountain stageDan Martin IRL 5 14 October Tiananmen Square to Bird's Nest Piazza 117.0 km 0 on 20px|link=Flat stage Flat stageSacha Modolo ITA Participating teams As the Tour of Beijing is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Because of Astana's self-suspension (see above), only seventeen teams were able to attend. With Astana's absence, Vacansoleil–DCM folding at the end of the previous season, and no wild-card team invited, this represented a big decrease from the 20 teams of the 2013 Tour of Beijing. The seventeen teams that competed in the race were:http://www.tourofbeijing.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Tour-of-Beijing-2014-Start-List1.pdf Archived copy 2014-10-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20141018062924/http://www.tourofbeijing.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Tour-of-Beijing-2014-Start-List1.pdf 2014-10-18 usurped 22em ALM 2014 BEL 2014 BMC 2014 CAN 2014 EUC 2014 FDJ 2014 GRS 2014 GIA 2014 KAT 2014 LAM 2014 LTB 2014 MOV 2014 OPQ 2014 OGE 2014 SKY 2014 SAX 2014 TFR 2014 Stages Stage 1 10 October 2014 — Chong Li to Zhangjiakou, 167 km 1 on Stage 1 result RiderTeamTime 1 Luka Mezgec SLO GIA 2014 4h 22' 58" 2 Caleb Ewan AUS OGE 2014 + 0" 3 Tyler Farrar USA GRS 2014 + 0" 4 Sacha Modolo ITA LAM 2014 + 0" 5 Nikolas Maes BEL OPQ 2014 + 0" 6 Moreno Hofland NED BEL 2014 + 0" 7 Steele Von Hoff AUS GRS 2014 + 0" 8 Boy van Poppel NED TFR 2014 + 0" 9 Davide Appollonio ITA ALM 2014 + 0" 10 Olivier Le Gac FRA FDJ 2014 + 0"General Classification after Stage 1 RiderTeamTime 1 Luka Mezgec SLO 20px20px GIA 2014 4h 22' 48" 2 Caleb Ewan AUS 20px OGE 2014 + 4" 3 Julian Kern GER ALM 2014 + 5" 4 Tyler Farrar USA GRS 2014 + 6" 5 Jérémy Roy FRA FDJ 2014 + 6" 6 Tosh Van der Sande BEL 20px LTB 2014 + 8" 7 Philippe Gilbert BEL BMC 2014 + 9" 8 Sacha Modolo ITA LAM 2014 + 10" 9 Nikolas Maes BEL OPQ 2014 + 10" 10 Moreno Hofland NED BEL 2014 + 10" Stage 2 11 October 2014 — Chong Li to Yanqing, 111 km 1 on Stage 2 result RiderTeamTime 1 Philippe Gilbert BEL BMC 2014 2h 29' 02" 2 Reinardt Janse van Rensburg RSA GIA 2014 + 0" 3 Rui Costa POR LAM 2014 + 0" 4 Sergey Chernetskiy RUS KAT 2014 + 0" 5 Dan Martin IRL GRS 2014 + 0" 6 Pieter Serry BEL OPQ 2014 + 0" 7 Jesús Herrada ESP MOV 2014 + 0" 8 Esteban Chaves COL OGE 2014 + 0" 9 Daryl Impey RSA OGE 2014 + 0" 10 Mikaël Cherel FRA ALM 2014 + 0"General Classification after Stage 2 RiderTeamTime 1 Philippe Gilbert BEL 20px20px BMC 2014 6h 51' 49" 2 Reinardt Janse van Rensburg RSA GIA 2014 + 5" 3 Rui Costa POR LAM 2014 + 7" 4 Jesús Herrada ESP 20px MOV 2014 + 11" 5 Pieter Serry BEL OPQ 2014 + 11" 6 Mikaël Cherel FRA ALM 2014 + 11" 7 Sergey Chernetskiy RUS KAT 2014 + 11" 8 Rigoberto Urán COL OPQ 2014 + 11" 9 Warren Barguil FRA GIA 2014 + 11" 10 Julián Arredondo COL TFR 2014 + 11" Stage 3 12 October 2014 — Yanqing to Qianjiandian, 176.0 km 1 on Stage 3 result RiderTeamTime 1 Tyler Farrar USA GRS 2014 4h 15' 46" 2 Luka Mezgec SLO GIA 2014 + 0" 3 Nikolas Maes BEL OPQ 2014 + 0" 4 Moreno Hofland NED BEL 2014 + 0" 5 Maximiliano Richeze ARG LAM 2014 + 0" 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR SKY 2014 + 0" 7 Danny van Poppel NED TFR 2014 + 0" 8 Boy van Poppel NED TFR 2014 + 0" 9 Davide Appollonio ITA ALM 2014 + 0" 10 Caleb Ewan AUS OGE 2014 + 0"General Classification after Stage 3 RiderTeamTime 1 Philippe Gilbert BEL 20px BMC 2014 11h 07' 35" 2 Reinardt Janse van Rensburg RSA GIA 2014 + 5" 3 Rui Costa POR LAM 2014 + 7" 4 Daryl Impey RSA OGE 2014 + 9" 5 Jesús Herrada ESP 20px MOV 2014 + 10" 6 Luka Mezgec SLO GIA 2014 + 11" 7 Pieter Serry BEL OPQ 2014 + 11" 8 Sergey Chernetskiy RUS KAT 2014 + 11" 9 Mikaël Cherel FRA ALM 2014 + 11" 10 Warren Barguil FRA GIA 2014 + 11" Stage 4 13 October 2014 — Yanqing to Mentougou Miaofeng Mountain, 157.0 km 1 on Stage 4 result RiderTeamTime 1 Dan Martin IRL GRS 2014 4h 12' 14" 2 Esteban Chaves COL OGE 2014 + 2" 3 Philippe Gilbert BEL 20px BMC 2014 + 2" 4 Rui Costa POR LAM 2014 + 2" 5 Julián Arredondo COL TFR 2014 + 10" 6 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA ALM 2014 + 10" 7 Warren Barguil FRA GIA 2014 + 10" 8 Rigoberto Urán COL OPQ 2014 + 10" 9 Sergey Chernetskiy RUS KAT 2014 + 10" 10 David López ESP SKY 2014 + 13"General Classification after Stage 4 RiderTeamTime 1 Philippe Gilbert BEL 20px BMC 2014 15h 19' 47" 2 Dan Martin IRL GRS 2014 + 3" 3 Esteban Chaves COL 20px OGE 2014 + 9" 4 Rui Costa POR LAM 2014 + 11" 5 Sergey Chernetskiy RUS KAT 2014 + 23" 6 Warren Barguil FRA GIA 2014 + 23" 7 Julián Arredondo COL TFR 2014 + 23" 8 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA ALM 2014 + 23" 9 Rigoberto Urán COL OPQ 2014 + 23" 10 Pieter Serry BEL OPQ 2014 + 26" Stage 5 14 October 2014 — Tiananmen Square to Bird's Nest Piazza, 117 km 1 on Stage 5 result RiderTeamTime 1 Sacha Modolo ITA LAM 2014 2h 40' 10" 2 Greg Henderson NZL LTB 2014 + 0" 3 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR SKY 2014 + 0" 4 Tyler Farrar USA GRS 2014 + 0" 5 Moreno Hofland NED BEL 2014 + 0" 6 Luka Mezgec SLO 20px GIA 2014 + 0" 7 Davide Appollonio ITA ALM 2014 + 0" 8 Ben Swift GBR SKY 2014 + 0" 9 Caleb Ewan AUS OGE 2014 + 0" 10 Enrique Sanz ESP MOV 2014 + 0"Final General Classification RiderTeamTime 1 Philippe Gilbert BEL 20px BMC 2014 17h 59' 57" 2 Dan Martin IRL GRS 2014 + 3" 3 Esteban Chaves COL 20px OGE 2014 + 9" 4 Rui Costa POR LAM 2014 + 11" 5 Sergey Chernetskiy RUS KAT 2014 + 23" 6 Warren Barguil FRA GIA 2014 + 23" 7 Julián Arredondo COL TFR 2014 + 23" 8 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA ALM 2014 + 23" 9 Rigoberto Urán COL OPQ 2014 + 23" 10 Mikaël Cherel FRA ALM 2014 + 26" Classification leadership table Stage WinnerGeneral classification25pxPoints classification25pxMountains classification25pxYoung rider classification25pxTeam Classification 1 Luka Mezgec Luka Mezgec Luka Mezgec Tosh Van der Sande Caleb Ewan GIA 2014 2 Philippe Gilbert Philippe Gilbert Philippe Gilbert Jesús Herrada OPQ 2014 3 Tyler Farrar Tyler Farrar Michał Gołaś GIA 2014 4Dan Martin Luka Mezgec Esteban Chaves OGE 2014 5Sacha Modolo Tyler Farrar Final Philippe Gilbert Tyler Farrar Michał GołaśEsteban ChavesOGE 2014 References External links http://www.tourofbeijing.net/ Category:2014 UCI World Tour 2014 Category:2014 in Beijing Category:October 2014 sports events in China