The 2014 Tour of Qinghai Lake is the 13th edition of an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Qinghai Province, China since 2002, named after Qinghai Lake. The race is run at the highest category (apart from those races which make up the UCI World Tour, and is rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race as part of the UCI Asia Tour.
Teams Twenty-two teams competed in the 2014 Tour of Qinghai Lake. These included five UCI Professional Continental and seventeen UCI Continental teams.
The teams that participated in the race were:
Route +Stage characteristics and winners Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 16 July Xining to Xining Flat stage 27 July to Datong Flat stage 38 July Huzhu to Xihai Hilly stage 49 July Xihai to Heimahe Flat stage 510 July Qinghai Lake to Guide Hilly stage 611 July Guide to Tongren Hilly stage 712 July Tongren to Hualong Hilly stage 813 July Xunhua to Lintao Hilly stage 14 July Rest day 915 July Tianshui to Tianshui Flat stage 1016 July Tianshui to Pingliang Hilly stage 1117 July Yinchuan to Yinchuan Flat stage 1218 July Zhongwei to Zhongwei Flat stage 1319 July Lanzhou to Lanzhou Flat stage
Stages Stage 1 6 July 2014 — Xining to Xining,
Stage 2 7 July 2014 — to Datong,
Stage 3 8 July 2014 — Huzhu to Xihai,
Stage 4 9 July 2014 — Xihai to Heimahe,
Stage 5 10 July 2014 — Qinghai Lake to Guide,
Stage 6 11 July 2014 — Guide to Tongren,
Stage 7 12 July 2014 — Tongren to Hualong,
Stage 8 13 July 2014 — Xunhua to Lintao,
Stage 9 15 July 2014 — Tianshui to Tianshui,
Stage 10 16 July 2014 — Tianshui to Pingliang,
Stage 11 17 July 2014 — Yinchuan to Yinchuan,
Stage 12 18 July 2014 — Zhongwei to Zhongwei,
Stage 13 19 July 2014 — Lanzhou to Lanzhou,
Classification leadership table
Stage WinnerGeneral classificationPoints classificationMountains classificationTeams classification 1 Oleksandr Polivoda Oleksandr Polivoda Oleksandr Polivoda not awarded 2 Marco Benfatto 3 Mykhaylo Kononenko Ghader Mizbani 4 Marco Benfatto Marco Benfatto 5 Thomas Vaubourzeix Thomas Vaubourzeix Thomas Vaubourzeix 6 Grega Bole Mykhaylo Kononenko 7 Timofey Kritsky 8 Sergiy Lagkuti 9 Ahmet Örken Mykhaylo Kononenko 10 Grega Bole 11 Mattia Gavazzi 12 Eduard-Michael Grosu 13 Mattia Gavazzi Mykhaylo Kononenko Final Mykhaylo Kononenko Mykhaylo Kononenko Ghader Mizbani
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