The 2014 Giro d'Italia Femminile, or 2014 Giro Rosa, was the 25th running of the Giro d'Italia Femminile, the only remaining women's Grand Tour and the most prestigious stage race on the 2014 women's road cycling calendar. It was held over ten stages (nine stages plus a prologue) from 4 July to 13 July 2014, starting in Caserta and finishing in Madonna del Ghisallo.
Last years champion, Mara Abbott, sought to defend her title riding for the UnitedHealthcare team. Five-time winner Fabiana Luperini rode in the race for the 13th time, and plans to retire after the race.
Other highly regarded competitors included; British National Time Trial Champion Emma Pooley (), Olympic and World Road Race Champion Marianne Vos (), current World Time Trial Champion Ellen van Dijk (), Evelyn Stevens (), Alena Amialiusik (Astana BePink), Emma Johansson (), Giorgia Bronzini and Linda Villumsen () and finally Elisa Longo Borghini (Hitec Products).
Teams 20 teams competed in the race:
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Alé–Cipollini Top Girls Fassa Bortolo RusVelo
Vaiano Fondriest
Estado de México–Faren Kuota
S.C. Michela Fanini Rox Astana BePink Servetto Footon BTC City Ljubljana
Hitec Products UCK Forno d'Asolo–Astute Bizkaia–Durango
Stages
Prologue 4 July 2014 – Caserta to Caserta, Prologue Result & General classification RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 1" 3 + 5" 4 + 7" 5 + 8" 6 + 8" 7 + 8" 8 Alé–Cipollini + 10" 9 + 10" 10 + 10"
Stage 1 5 July 2014 – Santa Maria a Vico to Santa Maria a Vico, Stage 1 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 Hitec Products + 4" 3 + 5" 4 + 1' 20" 5 + 1' 20" 6 + 1' 20" 7 + 1' 20" 8 Hitec Products + 1' 20" 9 UnitedHealthcare + 1' 24" 10 Hitec Products + 1' 24"General Classification after Stage 1 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 15" 3 Hitec Products + 23" 4 + 1' 36" 5 Hitec Products + 1' 42" 6 + 1' 42" 7 + 1' 44" 8 + 1' 44" 9 Hitec Products + 1' 55" 10 + 2' 06"
Stage 2 6 July 2014 – Frattamaggiore to Frattamaggiore, Stage 2 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 Alé–Cipollini s.t. 4 s.t. 5 s.t. 6 Alé–Cipollini s.t. 7 s.t. 8 Estado de México–Faren Kuota s.t. 9 s.t. 10 s.t.General Classification after Stage 2 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 21" 3 Hitec Products + 29" 4 + 1' 50" 5 + 1' 50" 6 + 1' 53" 7 + 1' 54" 8 Hitec Products + 2' 00" 9 + 2' 12" 10 Hitec Products + 2' 13"
Stage 3 In the 2014 edition of the race there are a number of stages which contain critical climbs which will favor the races who have General classification ambitions. The first of these notable climbs comes on Stage 3, San Donato Val di Comino is over 4.5 km at an average of 4.7%. 7 July 2014 – Caserta to San Donato Val di Comino, Stage 3 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 Alé–Cipollini + 10" 3 + 16" 4 Astana BePink + 20" 5 + 21" 6 + 21" 7 + 21" 8 + 21" 9 + 21" 10 Hitec Products + 21"General Classification after Stage 3 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 21" 3 Hitec Products + 29" 4 + 1' 41" 5 + 1' 50" 6 + 1' 50" 7 + 1' 53" 8 + 1' 54" 9 Hitec Products + 2' 00" 10 Hitec Products + 2' 24"
Stage 4 Approximately 15 km from the finish of Stage 4 riders will face the Torre di Jesi, a climb of 2.3 km in length at an average of over 4.5%. 8 July 2014 – Alba Adriatica to Jesi, Stage 4 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 Alé–Cipollini s.t. 3 s.t. 4 s.t. 5 s.t. 6 Alé–Cipollini s.t. 7 Hitec Products s.t. 8 s.t. 9 Astana BePink s.t. 10 Alé–Cipollini s.t.General Classification after Stage 4 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 31" 3 Hitec Products + 39" 4 + 1' 51" 5 + 2' 00" 6 + 2' 00" 7 + 2' 03" 8 + 2' 04" 9 Hitec Products + 2' 08" 10 Hitec Products + 2' 34"
Stage 5 9 July 2014 – Jesi to Cesenatico, Stage 5 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 Alé–Cipollini s.t. 4 s.t. 5 Hitec Products s.t. 6 Servetto Footon s.t. 7 s.t. 8 Estado de México–Faren Kuota s.t. 9 s.t. 10 Forno d'Asolo–Astute s.t.General Classification after Stage 5 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 41" 3 Hitec Products + 49" 4 + 2' 01" 5 + 2' 10" 6 + 2' 10" 7 + 2' 13" 8 + 2' 14" 9 Hitec Products + 2' 18" 10 Hitec Products + 2' 44"
Stage 6 Stage 6 sees one of the most significant climbs of the 2014 edition of the race. The Samede La Crossetta gains almost 700 metres of altitude in approximately 8 km, therefore averaging over 8%. 10 July 2014 – Gaiarine to San Fior, Stage 6 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 15" 3 + 15" 4 + 15" 5 + 15" 6 Hitec Products + 15" 7 + 15" 8 + 1' 06" 9 + 4' 19" 10 Hitec Products +4' 19"General Classification after Stage 6 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 45" 3 Hitec Products + 53" 4 + 2' 12" 5 + 2' 17" 6 + 2' 58" 7 + 4' 41" 8 + 6' 09" 9 + 6' 18" 10 + 6' 18"
Stage 7 11 July 2014 – Aprica to Chiavenna, Stage 7 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 s.t. 4 s.t. 5 Alé–Cipollini s.t. 6 s.t. 7 s.t. 8 Forno d'Asolo–Astute s.t. 9 Hitec Products s.t. 10 s.t.General Classification after Stage 7 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 54" 3 Hitec Products + 1' 03" 4 + 2' 20" 5 + 2' 24" 6 + 3' 08" 7 + 4' 51" 8 + 6' 19" 9 + 6' 24" 10 + 6' 28"
Stage 8 Stage 8 finishes in the first of two consecutive summit finishes. The San Domenico di Varzo climb is 11 km averaging 8%. 12 July 2014 – Verbania to San Domenico di Varzo, Stage 8 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 UnitedHealthcare + 5" 3 + 29" 4 + 53" 5 + 1' 27" 6 + 1' 28" 7 + 1' 53" 8 + 1' 53" 9 S.C. Michela Fanini Rox + 1' 58" 10 + 2' 01"General Classification after Stage 8 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 16" 3 + 1' 17" 4 UnitedHealthcare + 1' 39" 5 Hitec Products + 1' 46" 6 + 2' 47" 7 + 6' 27" 8 + 6' 44" 9 + 6' 57" 10 + 7' 10"
Stage 9 The second of the two mountain finishes is the climb at Madonna del Ghisallo, a 10 km climb at just over 5%. 13 July 2014 – Trezzo sull'Adda to Madonna del Ghisallo, Stage 9 result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 25" 3 + 25" 4 + 33" 5 UnitedHealthcare + 33" 6 Hitec Products + 38" 7 + 49" 8 + 50" 9 + 50" 10 S.C. Michela Fanini Rox + 1' 52"General Classification after Stage 9 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 15" 3 + 1' 32" 4 UnitedHealthcare + 1' 54" 5 Hitec Products + 2' 06" 6 + 3' 18" 7 + 6' 59" 8 + 7' 16" 9 + 8' 23" 10 + 8' 36"
Classification leadership Stage Winner General classification Points classification Mountains classification Young rider classification Italian rider classification P Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten Not awarded Pauline Ferrand-Prévot Tatiana Guderzo 1 Marianne Vos Marianne Vos Marianne Vos Ashleigh Moolman Elisa Longo Borghini 2 Giorgia Bronzini 3 Annemiek van Vleuten Valentina Scandolara 4 Marianne Vos 5 Marianne Vos 6 Emma Pooley 7 Marianne Vos Emma Pooley 8 Emma Pooley 9 Emma Pooley Final Marianne Vos Marianne Vos Emma Pooley Pauline Ferrand-Prévot Elisa Longo Borghini
Sub-classifications Points Classification RiderTeamPoints 1 115 2 65 3 48 4 48 5 45Mountains classification RiderTeamPoints 1 64 2 33 3 31 4 26 5 UnitedHealthcare 25
Youth Classification RiderTeamTime 1 2 Hitec Products + 8" 3 + 3' 56" 4 Top Girls Fassa Bortolo + 21' 22" 5 Astana BePink + 24' 44"Italian rider classification RiderTeamTime 1 Hitec Products 2 Estado de México–Faren Kuota + 8' 40" 3 Alé–Cipollini + 18' 17" 4 Alé–Cipollini + 21' 10" 5 Top Girls Fassa Bortolo + 21' 14"
Points scales The following table shows the number of points awarded for the Points and Mountains classifications. With respect to the Mountains classification, the table shows how the points are scaled dependent on the category of the climb.
Position Competition Points scale 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points classification N/A 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1Mountains classification 1st Category 13 11 9 7 5 – – – – – 2nd Category 7 5 3 2 1 – – – – – 3rd Category 5 4 3 2 1 – – – – –
Time bonuses Time bonuses of 10, 6, and 4 seconds are awarded to the first three riders across the finish line of each stage (except the prologue). Time bonuses of 3, 2, and 1 seconds are awarded to the first three riders to cross the line of each intermediate sprint.
References
External links Cycling News