2014 Women's Cycling World Cup

The 2014 Women's Cycling World Cup is the 17th edition of this series of the most important one-day races in women's road cycling, which has been held by the World Cycling Association UCI since the 1998 season .

With the aim of increasing the attractiveness of the competitions, the UCI introduced additional special ratings in addition to the overall individual and team ratings for the 2014 season. A sprint and a mountain classification are awarded on the basis of intermediate sprints , as well as a junior classification on the basis of the finish line. The leaders of these special rankings, like the overall leaders, will be awarded with a scoring jersey . The look of the rating jerseys is based on designs by Iris Slappendel , an active racing cyclist who won a UCI design competition.

With the Sparkassen Giro Bochum , a German race is part of this series for the first time since 2009.

The overall ranking of the female drivers was won by Elizabeth Armitstead from Britain, ahead of Emma Johansson from Sweden and last year's Dutch winner Marianne Vos . In the team standings , the victorious Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team . Iris Slappendel won the sprint ranking, Alena Amjaljussik won the mountain ranking and Elena Cecchini won the junior ranking .

run

date	run	Winners	Leading driver	Leading team
March, 15	Ronde van Drenthe	Elizabeth Armitstead	Elizabeth Armitstead	Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team
March 30	Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio	Emma Johansson	Elizabeth Armitstead	Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team
April 6th	Tour of Flanders	Ellen van Dijk	Elizabeth Armitstead	Boels Dolmans cycling team
April 23	La Flèche Wallonne Féminine	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot	Elizabeth Armitstead	Boels Dolmans cycling team
May 18	Tour of Chongming Island	Kirsten Wild	Elizabeth Armitstead	Boels Dolmans cycling team
3rd August	Sparkassen Giro	Marianne Vos	Elizabeth Armitstead	Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team
August 22nd	Open de Suède Vårgårda - team time trial	Specialized-lululemon	Elizabeth Armitstead	Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team
August 24th	Open de Suède Vårgårda - one day race	Chantal Blaak	Elizabeth Armitstead	Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team
August 30th	Grand Prix de Plouay-Bretagne	Lucinda Brand	Elizabeth Armitstead	Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team

Final score

Driver rating # Surname nationality team Points 1 Elizabeth Armitstead  GBR Boels Dolmans cycling team 515 2 Emma Johansson  SWE Orica AIS 390 3 Marianne Vos  NLD Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team 370 4th Anna van der Breggen  NLD Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team 346 5 Kirsten Wild  NLD Giant Shimano 290 6th Pauline Ferrand-Prévot  FRA Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team 285 7th Ellen van Dijk  NLD Boels Dolmans cycling team 269 8th Elisa Longo Borghini  ITA Hitec Products 255 9 Chantal Blaak  NLD Specialized-lululemon 225 10 Giorgia Bronzini  ITA Wiggle Honda 225

Team rating # team nationality Points 1 Rabobank Liv Women Cycling Team  NLD 1515 2 Boels Dolmans cycling team  NLD 1001 3 Specialized-lululemon  United States 666 4th Giant Shimano  NLD 576 5 Hitec Products  NOR 538 6th Orica AIS  OUT 464 7th Estado de Mexico Faren  MEX 376 8th Wiggle Honda  GBR 310 9 Alé Cipollini  ITA 186 10 Lotto Belisol Ladies  BEL 176

See also

• UCI women's road cycling calendar 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ uci.ch of December 24, 2013: A sneak preview of the new leader jerseys ( Memento of February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ radsportseiten.net from December 25, 2013: 9 World Cup races with design leader jersey by Iris Slappendel
3. ↑ Jersey Design Contest UCI World Cup - Modified version - Iris Slappendel. uci.ch, archived from the original on January 4, 2014 ; Retrieved January 17, 2014 . 
4. ↑ rad-net.de from January 20, 2014: Women's race in Bochum receives World Cup status

Web links

• UCI road cycling calendar
• UCI road cycling rankings
• UCI road cycling results