The 2014

La Route de France The Route de France Féminine is a women's cycle race. First held in 2006, it was rated 2.2 by the UCI for the 2006 and 2007 edition, and 2.1 since. The race was cancelled in 2011, but returned the next year. With the ending of the Grande Bouc ...

was an Elite Women's road race, rated at 2.1 by the UCI. Claudia Lichtenberg of won the first stage by 29 seconds and held on to the leader's jersey for the entire race.

Teams

The following teams are participating: ;

UCI Women's Teams A UCI Women's Team is a women's road bicycle team sanctioned by the International Cycling Union ( UCI). These teams compete in the major women's bicycle races including the UCI Women's Road World Cup and the team time trial for trade teams at the ...

* Alé–Cipollini * Astana BePink *

Lointek Sopela Women's Team () is a professional cycling team based in Spain, which competes in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling events such as the UCI Women's World Tour and elite women's races. Team history On 7 October 2014, Fanny Riberot ...

* Lotto–Belisol Ladies * Poitou–Charentes.Futuroscope.86 * RusVelo *

Team Giant–Shimano Team DSM () is a Dutch professional cycling team at UCI WorldTeam level. The team is managed by Iwan Spekenbrink. History The team was founded in 2005 under the name "Shimano-Memory Corp", sponsored by Skil and Shimano, and was based in the ...

* Vaiano Fondriest * Wiggle–Honda ;National teams * Australia * France * Lithuania * Netherlands * Slovakia

Stages

The 2014 edition of the race has seven road race stages, with no prologue or time trial stages.

Stage 1

;10 August 2014 – Mouilleron-en-Pareds to Mouilleron-en-Pareds,

Stage 2

;11 August 2014 – Mouilleron-en-Pareds to Ligné,

Stage 3

;12 August 2014 –

Château-du-Loir Château-du-Loir (; literally 'Château of the Loir') is a former commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. On 1 October 2016, it was merged into the new commune Montval-sur-Loir.

Vendôme Vendôme (, ) is a subprefecture of the department of Loir-et-Cher, France. It is also the department's third-biggest commune with 15,856 inhabitants (2019). It is one of the main towns along the river Loir. The river divides itself at the ...

Stage 4

;13 August 2014 –

Cloyes-sur-le-Loir Cloyes-sur-le-Loir (, literally ''Cloyes on the Loir'') is a former commune on the River Loir, a few kilometres south of the town of Châteaudun in the department of Eure-et-Loir in northern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new c ...

to Chalette-sur-Loing,

Stage 5

;14 August 2014 – Paucourt to

Migennes Migennes () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. Laroche-Migennes station has rail connections to Dijon, Paris, Auxerre, Corbigny and Avallon. Population Town partnership * Simmern, Rhine ...

Stage 6

;15 August 2014 –

Pougues-les-Eaux Pougues-les-Eaux () is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. Pougues-les-Eaux station has rail connections to Nevers, Cosne-sur-Loire and Paris. Demographics See also * Communes of the Nièvre department The following is ...

Varennes-sur-Allier Varennes-sur-Allier (, literally ''Varennes on Allier''; oc, Varenas) is a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. History In 52 BC during the Gallic Wars lived by Julius Caesar, Vercingetorix crosse ...

Stage 7

;16 August 2014 –

Marcigny Marcigny () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. History Marcigny was the site of the first Cluniac nunnery, founded in 1056. St Anselm was unsuccessful in attempting t ...

to Marcigny,

Classification leadership

References

External links

*{{official website La Route de France 2014 in women's road cycling 2014 in French sport