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The 2014 Baltic Chain Tour was the fourth modern edition of the
Baltic Chain Tour Baltic Chain Tour is a stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. Baltic Chain Tour was established to commemorate Baltic Way. Tour is conducted mainly in the Baltic states of Estonia ...
road cycling race. It was held over a period of five days between 20 and 24 August 2014.Programme of the event
/ref> The race was a part of the
2014 UCI Europe Tour The 2014 UCI Europe Tour was the tenth season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2014 season began on 2 February 2014 with the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise and ended on 19 October 2014 with the Chrono des Na ...
with a race classification of 2.2. This year the tour coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Chain, a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989, with approximately two million people joining their hands to form a human chain spanning over across the three
Baltic states The Baltic states, et, Balti riigid or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term, which currently is used to group three countries: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, ...
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Teams

A total of 20 teams raced in the 2014 Baltic Chain Tour: 12 UCI Continental teams, 5 national teams and 3 amateur tams. * * *Belarus ''(national team)'' * * * EC St Etienne-Loire * Estonia ''(national team)'' * Experiment 23 *
Team Frøy–Bianchi Team Frøy–Bianchi () was a UCI Continental cycling team based in Norway. The team was managed by Espen Hillmann with assistance from directeur sportif A ''directeur sportif'' ( French for sporting director, although the original French term ...
* Germany ''(national team)'' * * * Lithuania ''(national team)'' * * Russia ''(national team)'' * SJK Viiking * * *
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Route


Stages


Stage 1

;20 August 2014 —
Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...
(Lithuania) to Panevėžys (Lithuania),


Stage 2

;21 August 2014 —
Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
(Latvia) to
Sigulda Sigulda (; german: Segewold, pl, Zygwold, russian: Сигулда) is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, from the capital city Riga. Overview Sigulda is on a picturesque stretch of the primeval Gauja river valley. Because of the reddish Dev ...
(Latvia),


Stage 3

;22 August 2014 — Valmiera (Latvia) to Pärnu (Estonia),


Stage 4

;23 August 2014 — Pärnu (Estonia) to
Viljandi Viljandi (, german: Fellin, sv, Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,407 in 2019. It is the capital of Viljandi County and is geographically located between two major Estonian cities, Pärnu and Tartu ...
(Estonia),


Stage 5

;24 August 2014 — Viljandi (Estonia) to
Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...
(Estonia),


Classification leadership table


References


External links

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Baltic Chain Tour Baltic Chain Tour is a stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. Baltic Chain Tour was established to commemorate Baltic Way. Tour is conducted mainly in the Baltic states of Estonia ...
Baltic Chain Tour Baltic Chain Tour is a stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. Baltic Chain Tour was established to commemorate Baltic Way. Tour is conducted mainly in the Baltic states of Estonia ...
Baltic Chain Tour Baltic Chain Tour is a stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. Baltic Chain Tour was established to commemorate Baltic Way. Tour is conducted mainly in the Baltic states of Estonia ...
Baltic Chain Tour Baltic Chain Tour is a stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. Baltic Chain Tour was established to commemorate Baltic Way. Tour is conducted mainly in the Baltic states of Estonia ...
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