This weekend the Road World Championships Cycling will start in Ponferrada in Spain. After the Team Time Trials (for brand teams) this weekend, the championships will continue with the individual time trials before the road races, which will take place for all different categories on the same circuit.

In this article you'll discover the different race routes on Google Maps/Google Earth and the profiles and time- and route schedules.

The programme of the Road World Championships Cycling 2014

The whole week, the area around Ponferrada, in the north-west of Spain, will receive the Road World Championships Cycling 2014, following the programme described here:

• Sunday 21 September 2014 :
  - morning (10.00AM) : team time trial Elite Women - 36.15 km => race route
  - afternoon (2.00PM) : team time trial Elite Men - 57.10 km => race route
• Monday 22 September 2014 :
  - morning (10.00AM) : individual time trial Junior Women - 13.90 km => race route
  - afternoon (2.00PM) : individual time trial Men U23 - 36.15 km => race route
• Tuesday 23 September 2014 :
  - morning (10.00AM) : individual time trial Junior Men - 29.50 km => race route
  - afternoon (2.30PM) : individual time trial Elite Women - 29.50 km => race route
• Wednesday 24 September 2014 :
  - (1.30PM) individual time trial Elite Men - 47.10 km => race route
• Thursday 25 September 2014 :
  training road races
• Friday 26 September 2014 :
  - morning (9.00AM) : road race Junior Women - 72.80 km (4 laps on the circuit) => race route
  - afternoon (13h00) : road race Men U23 - 182.00 km (10 laps on the circuit) => race route
• Saturday 27 September 2014 :
  - morning (9.00AM) : road race Junior Men - 127.40 km (7 laps on the circuit) => race route
  - afternoon (2.00PM) : road race Elite Women - 127.40 km (7 laps on the circuit) => race route
• Sunday 28 September 2014 :
  (10.00AM) road race Elite Men - 254.80 km (14 laps on the circuit) => race route

The race routes of the Road World Championships Cycling 2014 on Google Maps

The team time trials

As usual now since a few years (2012 to be precise), these Road World Championships Cycling 2014 in Ponferrada will start with team time trials.

The starts and finishes for all time trial races of these World Championships are identical, respectively in the Avenida Libertad and the Avenida de Asturias in Ponferrada.

The circuit for the men teams is longer than the women's since they'll do a total of 57.10 kilometers while the Women teams will finish in 36.15 kilomètres. Hereunder you'll find the race routes for the two team time trials on Google Maps, the time- and route schedules and the profiles of these races.

team time trial Elite Women - 36.15 km
team time trial Elite Men - 57.10 km

the individual time trials

From Monday till Wednesday the switch is made to the individual effort with the individual time trials for the participants in the different categories of these Road World Championships Cycling 2014.

individual time trial Junior Women - 13.90 km
individual time trial Men U23 - 36.15 km
individual time trial Junior Men - 29.50 km
individual time trial Elite Women - 29.50 km
individual time trial Elite Men - 47.10 km

The road races

From Friday, the road races will take place, until Sunday. They'll all take place on the same circuit around Ponferrada (without an initial part in line as often is the case), in which we find two climbs, a big one of 5.2 kilometers - Confederación - with an average steepness of 3.3% (going up to 8.7%) and the Mirador climb over 1.14 kilometers with an average steepness of 5.5% going up to 10.7%!

These climbs will be part of each lap on the circuit and will thus be climbed up to 14 times by the Men elite!

road race Junior Women - 72.80 km (4 laps on the circuit)
road race Men U23 - 182.00 km (10 laps on the circuit)
road race Junior Men - 127.40 km (7 laps on the circuit)
road race Elite Women - 127.40 km (7 laps on the circuit)
road race Elite Men - 254.80 km (14 laps on the circuit)

The race routes of the Road World Championships Cycling 2014 in Google Earth

Would you prefer to see all these race routes in Google Earth and maybe even do a virtual fly-over of one of these race routes? That's possible, by downloading the following KML file and opening it in Google Earth!

>> Download the race routes of the Road World Championships Cycling 2014 in Google Earth

door Thomas Vergouwen
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