Vuelta a Costa Rica 2014

Vuelta Kölbi a Costa Rica 2014
Host country	Costa Rica
Competition period	14.-25. December 2014
Stages	eleven stages
overall length	1413 km
Starting field	96 drivers from 7 nations in 15 teams (66 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Juan Carlos Rojas 35:25:30 h 2. César Rojas +8: 46 min 3. Josué González + 15:37 min
Team evaluation	JPS-Giant 107: 13: 47 h
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Juan Carlos Rojas
Scoring	Juan Carlos Rojas
Sprint scoring	Arnold Alcolea
Mountain scoring	César Rojas
U-23 rating	Joseph Chavarría
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The 50th Vuelta a Costa Rica (officially: Vuelta Kölbi a Costa Rica ) took place from December 14th to 25th, 2014 in Costa Rica .

The bike race was part of the UCI America Tour 2014 , where it was classified in category 2.2 . The first eight drivers in the overall standings and the first three of each stage as well as those wearing the yellow jersey of the overall leader received points for the America ranking list after each stage.

Juan Carlos Rojas (Frijoles Los Tierniticos-Arroz Halcón) won the stage race for the fourth time in his career , defending his previous year's title and remaining the sole record winner of the race. Juan Carlos, who was also able to win the points classification, distanced himself from his teammate and brother César , with whom he reached the finish line as a duo over all three parts of the day, ahead of all competitors. While César Rojas won the mountain classification, Josué González (Coopenae Movistar Economy), another local, took third place on the podium in the overall classification. The sprint classification went to the Cuban Arnold Alcolea , the JPS-Giant team was ahead in the team classification and provided the best U-23 driver with Joseph Chavarría .

Attendees

Eight local Costa Rican teams and six foreign teams, including four national selections, competed. With 4-72-Colombia and Buenos Aires Provincia , two Continental teams also took part in the race. German speaking drivers were not there.

Continental teams Buenos Aires Provincia 4-72-Colombia 0 National teams  Cuba  Chile  Panama  Russia

Regional teams from Costa Rica JPS-Giant Coopenae Movistar Economy BCR Pizza Hut Powerade Frijoles Los Tierniticos-Arroz Halcón Seven Card.com Star Cars-Scottiabank-Dos Pinos Municipalidad de Cartago Taller RJ-Ciclo Corea Bike

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner	Overall leader
1.	December 14th	San José - Puerto Limón	155		Ronald Araya	Ronald Araya
2.	15th December	Puerto Limón - Guápiles	135		Sebastián Tolosa
3.	December 16	Guápiles - Paraíso	118.7		César Rojas	Juan Carlos Rojas
4th	December 17th	San Joaquín - Carrizal	18.24		Rodolfo Villalobos
5.	December 18th	Alajuela - Ciudad Quesada	167.3		Roman Villalobos	Josué González
6th	19. December	La Fortuna - Liberia	188.2		José Vega
7th	20th of December	Liberia - Puntarenas	135.9		Timofey Kritskiy
8th.	21st December	Puntarenas - Santa Ana	134.2		Juan Carlos Rojas	Juan Carlos Rojas
R.	December 22	Rest day			0 - 0
9.	23rd of December	San José - Pérez Zeledón	126.8		Henry Raabe
10.	24th of December	Pérez Zeledón - San José	134.5		Juan Carlos Rojas
11.	25 December	Circuito Presidente (La Aurora de Heredia)	99.53		Ronald Araya

Web links

• Official website of the Costa Rican Cycling Federation (Spanish)
• Results of the race on live-radsport.ch
• Vuelta a Costa Rica 2014 in the database of Radsportseiten.net