The 2014
Gracia–Orlová
Gracia–Orlová is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. It was created in 1987.
Since 2004, it starts in Dětmarovice. A mountain stag ...
was the 28th edition of a stage race held in the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
, with a
UCI rating of 2.2. It was the seventh stage race of the
2014 Women's Elite cycling calendar.
The 2014 edition of the race faced some organisational problems; there were two less stages compared to the
2013
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edition of the race. The organisers had to cancel a stage only a month before the race, due to two sponsors dropping out.
The winner of the 2013 edition,
Ellen van Dijk
Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time ...
, did not start, as she competed in the concurrent
Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs. Furthermore, , who won most of the stages in 2013, did not compete in the 2014 edition.
Stages
Prologue
;1 May 2014 –
Havířov
Havířov (; pl, ) is a city in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 69,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the region. Havířov lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. ...
, ,
individual time trial
An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also track-b ...
(ITT)
Prologue Result and General Classification after Prologue
Stage 1
;2 May 2014 –
Dětmarovice
Dětmarovice (; pl, , german: Dittmarsdorf, ''Dittmannsdorf'') is a municipality and village in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Koukoln ...
to
Štramberk,
Stage 2
;3 May 2014 –
Lichnov to Lichnov,
Stage 3
;4 May 2014 –
Orlová
Orlová (; pl, ; german: Orlau) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 28,000 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Orlová is made up of four town parts: Lazy, Lutyně, Město and Poru ...
to Orlová,
Classification leadership
References
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2014 in women's road cycling
2014
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