The
Men's junior time trial of the
2014 UCI Road World Championships
The 2014 UCI Road World Championships took place in Ponferrada, Spain, from 21 to 28 September 2014. The cycling championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. It was the 81st UCI Road World Championships and the s ...
took place in and around
Ponferrada,
Spain on 23 September 2014. The course of the race was with the start and finish in Ponferrada.
Lennard Kämna became the first German rider to win the world title since
Marcel Kittel in 2006, with a winning margin of almost 45 seconds over his nearest competitor. The silver medal went to American rider Adrien Costa, with the bronze medal going to Australia's Michael Storer; Costa and Storer were the only riders to get within a minute of Kämna's time.
Qualification
All National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.
For the event, competing riders used numbers 2 to 70, as number 1 was left unused.
Number 1 was scheduled to be worn by the defending World Champion,
Igor Decraene
Igor Decraene (26 January 1996, in Waregem – 30 August 2014, in Zulte) was a Belgian cyclist. In 2013, he became the UCI world junior men's time trial champion. The event took place on 24 September in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. In 2013 and 2 ...
, but three weeks prior to the championships – on 30 August 2014 – Decraene was killed in
Zulte, Belgium, while returning from a house party.
Course
The course of the men's junior time trial was ; it was held over the same course as the
women's time trial. The time trial started in the centre of
Ponferrada and passed through
La Martina
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La Martina was founded by Lando Simonetti, who was working in the fashion industry in the United States until 1985. That year he moved back to his native Argentina. The ...
,
Posada del Bierzo
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History
In the late 1950s construction of the forced the relocation of the inhabitants of tw ...
and
Carracedelo
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before returning to Ponferrada. The total incline of the course was . A few kilometres before the finish there was a climb, with an incline of over and a maximum inclination of 7%. A short stretch before riding into Ponferrada was made for the championships.
Schedule
All times are in
Central European Time (
UTC+1).
Participating nations
69 cyclists from 40 nations took part in the men's junior time trial. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
*
Algeria (2)
*
Argentina (1)
*
Australia
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(1)
*
Azerbaijan (2)
*
Belgium (2)
*
Belarus (2)
*
Brazil (1)
*
Canada (1)
*
Colombia
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(2)
*
Denmark (2)
*
Ecuador (1)
*
Egypt (2)
*
Estonia (2)
*
France (2)
*
Great Britain (1)
*
Germany (3)
*
Hungary (1)
*
Ireland (2)
*
Italy (2)
*
Japan
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(1)
*
Kazakhstan (2)
*
Luxembourg (2)
*
Morocco (2)
*
Macedonia
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(1)
*
Norway (2)
*
Poland (2)
*
Portugal (2)
*
Romania (1)
*
Russia (2)
*
Slovakia (1)
*
Slovenia (2)
*
South Africa (2)
*
Spain (2) (host)
*
Sweden
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(2)
*
Switzerland
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(2)
*
Turkey (2)
*
Ukraine (2)
*
Uruguay (1)
*
United States (2)
*
Uzbekistan (2)
Prize money
The
UCI assigned premiums for the top 3 finishers with a total prize money of
€
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1,380.
Final classification
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:2014 UCI Road World Championships - Men's junior time trial
Men's junior time trial
UCI Road World Championships – Men's junior time trial
2014 in men's road cycling