2014 Tour of Norway

The 2014 Tour of Norway was the fourth edition of the Tour of Norway cycle race. It was a part of the 2014 UCI Europe Tour.

2014 Tour of Norway

2014 UCI Europe Tour
Race details
Dates	21–25 May 2014
Stages	5
Distance	879 km (546.2 mi)
Winning time	21h 14' 56"
Results
Winner  Maciej Paterski (POL) (CCC–Polsat–Polkowice)   Second  Marc de Maar (CUR) (UnitedHealthcare)   Third  Bauke Mollema (NED) (Belkin Pro Cycling) Points  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) (Team Katusha) Mountains  Amund Grøndahl (NOR) (Team Sparebanken Sør) Youth  Jesper Hansen (DEN) (Tinkoff–Saxo)
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Schedule

There were 5 stages in the race.^[1]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner	Winning team
1	21 May	Larvik to Larvik	147.7 km (91.8 mi)		Intermediate stage	Alexander Kristoff (NOR)	Team Katusha
2	22 May	Drøbak to Sarpsborg	191.6 km (119.1 mi)		Flat stage	Marc de Maar (CUR)	UnitedHealthcare
3	23 May	Årnes to Budor	177.7 km (110.4 mi)		Intermediate stage	Sep Vanmarcke (BEL)	Belkin Pro Cycling
4	24 May	Brumunddal to Lillehammer	195 km (121.2 mi)		Intermediate stage	Bauke Mollema (NED)	Belkin Pro Cycling
5	25 May	Gjøvik to Hønefoss (Eggemoen)	167 km (103.8 mi)		Flat stage	Alexander Kristoff (NOR)	Team Katusha

Teams

There were 18 teams that competed in the race. With the exception of MTN–Qhubeka (with five riders), each team entered six riders for the race.^[2][3]

UCI ProTeams Belkin Pro Cycling Team Katusha Tinkoff–Saxo

UCI Professional Continental Teams Caja Rural–Seguros RGA CCC–Polsat–Polkowice IAM Cycling MTN–Qhubeka RusVelo Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise UnitedHealthcare Wanty–Groupe Gobert

UCI Continental Teams Team Joker Team Øster Hus-Ridley Team Sparebanken Sør Frøy-Bianchi Motiv3 Pro-Cycling Team Team FixIT.no Team Ringeriks-Kraft

Stages

Stage 1

21 May 2014 — Larvik to Larvik, 147.7 km (91.8 mi)^[4]

Stage 1 Result Rider Team Time 1  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Team Katusha 3h 24' 18" 2  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) Team Sparebanken Sør s.t. 3  Tom Van Asbroeck (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise s.t. 4  Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR) Belkin Pro Cycling s.t. 5  Zico Waeytens (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise s.t. 6  Bartłomiej Matysiak (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice s.t. 7  Gerald Ciolek (GER) MTN–Qhubeka s.t. 8  Thomas Sprengers (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise s.t. 9  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice s.t. 10  Jo Kogstad Ringheim (NOR) Team Joker s.t.

General Classification after Stage 1 Rider Team Time 1  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Team Katusha 3h 24' 08" 2  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) Team Sparebanken Sør + 4" 3  Tom Van Asbroeck (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise + 6" 4  Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR) Belkin Pro Cycling + 10" 5  Zico Waeytens (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise + 10" 6  Bartłomiej Matysiak (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice + 10" 7  Gerald Ciolek (GER) MTN–Qhubeka + 10" 8  Thomas Sprengers (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise + 10" 9  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice + 10" 10  Jo Kogstad Ringheim (NOR) Team Joker + 10"

Stage 2

22 May 2014 — Drøbak to Sarpsborg, 191.6 km (119.1 mi)^[5]

Stage 2 Result Rider Team Time 1  Marc de Maar (CUR) UnitedHealthcare 4h 38' 38" 2  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice s.t. 3  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Team Katusha + 12" 4  Aleksejs Saramotins (LAT) IAM Cycling + 12" 5  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) Team Sparebanken Sør + 12" 6  Marko Kump (SLO) Tinkoff–Saxo + 12" 7  Sven Erik Bystrøm (NOR) Team Øster Hus-Ridley + 12" 8  Sébastien Hinault (FRA) IAM Cycling + 12" 9  Tom Van Asbroeck (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise + 12" 10  Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR) Belkin Pro Cycling + 12"

General Classification after Stage 2 Rider Team Time 1  Marc de Maar (CUR) UnitedHealthcare 8h 02' 44" 2  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice + 3" 3  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Team Katusha + 10" 4  Tom Van Asbroeck (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise + 17" 5  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) Team Sparebanken Sør + 18" 6  Bauke Mollema (NED) Belkin Pro Cycling + 22" 7  Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR) Belkin Pro Cycling + 24" 8  Bartłomiej Matysiak (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice + 24" 9  Aleksejs Saramotins (LAT) IAM Cycling + 24" 10  Sven Erik Bystrøm (NOR) Team Øster Hus-Ridley + 24"

Stage 3

23 May 2014 — Årnes to Budor, 177.7 km (110.4 mi)^[6]

Stage 3 Result Rider Team Time 1  Sep Vanmarcke (BEL) Belkin Pro Cycling 4h 13' 15" 2  Gustav Larsson (SWE) IAM Cycling + 1" 3  Gatis Smukulis (LAT) Team Katusha + 4" 4  Stef Clement (NED) Belkin Pro Cycling + 6" 5  Jérôme Baugnies (BEL) Wanty–Groupe Gobert + 12" 6  Jarosław Marycz (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice + 13" 7  Aleksejs Saramotins (LAT) IAM Cycling + 13" 8  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Team Katusha + 13" 9  Bauke Mollema (NED) Belkin Pro Cycling + 13" 10  Gerald Ciolek (GER) MTN–Qhubeka + 13"

General Classification after Stage 3 Rider Team Time 1  Marc de Maar (CUR) UnitedHealthcare 12h 16' 12" 2  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice + 3" 3  Gustav Larsson (SWE) IAM Cycling + 6" 4  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Team Katusha + 10" 5  Tom Van Asbroeck (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise + 11" 6  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) Team Sparebanken Sør + 18" 7  Bauke Mollema (NED) Belkin Pro Cycling + 22" 8  Jérôme Baugnies (BEL) Wanty–Groupe Gobert + 23" 9  Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR) Belkin Pro Cycling + 24" 10  Aleksejs Saramotins (LAT) IAM Cycling + 24"

Stage 4

24 May 2014 — Brumunddal to Lillehammer, 195 km (121.2 mi)^[7]

Stage 4 Result Rider Team Time 1  Bauke Mollema (NED) Belkin Pro Cycling 4h 53' 55" 2  Jesper Hansen (DEN) Tinkoff–Saxo + 3" 3  Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR) Belkin Pro Cycling + 6" 4  Pello Bilbao (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA + 6" 5  Kristoffer Skjerping (NOR) Team Joker + 6" 6  Sven Erik Bystrøm (NOR) Team Øster Hus-Ridley + 6" 7  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice + 6" 8  Marc de Maar (CUR) UnitedHealthcare + 6" 9  Rubén Fernández[N 1] (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA + 3" 10  Jérôme Baugnies (BEL) Wanty–Groupe Gobert + 6"

General Classification after Stage 4 Rider Team Time 1  Marc de Maar (CUR) UnitedHealthcare 17h 10' 13" 2  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice + 3" 3  Bauke Mollema (NED) Belkin Pro Cycling + 6" 4  Gustav Larsson (SWE) IAM Cycling + 6" 5  Jesper Hansen (DEN) Tinkoff–Saxo + 15" 6  Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR) Belkin Pro Cycling + 19" 7  Jérôme Baugnies (BEL) Wanty–Groupe Gobert + 23" 8  Gerald Ciolek (GER) MTN–Qhubeka + 24" 9  Sven Erik Bystrøm (NOR) Team Øster Hus-Ridley + 24" 10  Pello Bilbao (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA + 24"

Notes

1. Rubén Fernández, as well as 18th placed Odd Christian Eiking (Team Joker), received the same time as Jesper Hansen. This was due to the fact that Fernández and Eiking both crashed on the final corner, having been in a group with Hansen.

Stage 5

25 May 2014 — Gjøvik to Hønefoss–Eggemoen, 167 km (103.8 mi)^[8]

Stage 5 Result Rider Team Time 1  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Team Katusha 4h 04' 40" 2  Jempy Drucker (LUX) Wanty–Groupe Gobert s.t. 3  Gerald Ciolek (GER) MTN–Qhubeka s.t. 4  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice s.t. 5  Sébastien Reichenbach (SUI) IAM Cycling s.t. 6  Pello Bilbao (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA s.t. 7  Bjørn Tore Hoem (NOR) Team Sparebanken Sør s.t. 8  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) Team Sparebanken Sør + 6" 9  Tom Van Asbroeck (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise + 6" 10  Daniele Bennati (ITA) Tinkoff–Saxo + 6"

Final General Classification Rider Team Time 1  Maciej Paterski (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice 21h 14' 56" 2  Marc de Maar (CUR) UnitedHealthcare + 3" 3  Bauke Mollema (NED) Belkin Pro Cycling + 9" 4  Gustav Larsson (SWE) IAM Cycling + 9" 5  Gerald Ciolek (GER) MTN–Qhubeka + 15" 6  Jesper Hansen (DEN) Tinkoff–Saxo + 18" 7  Pello Bilbao (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA + 21" 8  Bjørn Tore Hoem (NOR) Team Sparebanken Sør + 21" 9  Jérôme Baugnies (BEL) Wanty–Groupe Gobert + 26" 10  Sven Erik Bystrøm (NOR) Team Øster Hus-Ridley + 27"

Classification leadership table

In the 2014 Tour of Norway, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses (10, 6 and 4 seconds respectively) for the first three finishers on mass-start stages, the leader received a yellow jersey. Additionally, there were a points classification, awarding a green jersey, and mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a polka dot jersey. The fourth jersey represents the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only young riders were eligible. There was also classification for teams.^[9]

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Teams classification
1	Alexander Kristoff	Alexander Kristoff	Alexander Kristoff	Adrian Gjølberg	Sondre Holst Enger	Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise
2	Marc de Maar	Marc de Maar		August Jensen	Tom Van Asbroeck	CCC–Polsat–Polkowice
3	Sep Vanmarcke			Sep Vanmarcke		Belkin Pro Cycling
4	Bauke Mollema			Amund Grøndahl	Jesper Hansen	IAM Cycling
5	Alexander Kristoff	Maciej Paterski
Final		Maciej Paterski	Alexander Kristoff	Amund Grøndahl	Jesper Hansen	IAM Cycling

Standings