The2014 Tour de Suisse was the 78th running of theTour de Suisse cycling stage race. It began on 14 June with anindividual time trial inBellinzona and ended on 22 June inSaas-Fee; in total, the race consisted of nine stages.^[1] It was the seventeenth race of the2014 UCI World Tour season.Rui Costa won the race for the third year in a row.Tony Martin led for almost all of the race, having gained an early advantage in the opening stage time trial. However, Costa was able to gain enough time on the climb at the end of the final stage to overhaul the deficit and in doing so set a record for the most consecutive victories in the race.

2014 Tour de Suisse

2014 UCI World Tour, race 17 of 29
Race details
Dates	14–22 June 2014
Stages	9
Distance	1,322 km (821.5 mi)
Winning time	33h 08' 35"
Results
Winner  Rui Costa (Portugal) (Lampre–Merida)   Second  Mathias Frank (Switzerland) (IAM Cycling)   Third  Bauke Mollema (Netherlands) (Belkin Pro Cycling) Points  Peter Sagan (Slovakia) (Cannondale) Mountains  Björn Thurau (Germany) (Team Europcar)   Team Belkin Pro Cycling
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As the Tour de Suisse was a UCI World Tour event, allUCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. In addition four Professional Continental teams were given wildcard places

The 22 teams that competed in the race were:

14 June 2014 —Bellinzona, 9.4 km (5.8 mi),individual time trial (ITT)

15 June 2014 — Bellinzona toSarnen, 181.8 km (113.0 mi)

16 June 2014 — Sarden toHeiden, 206.2 km (128.1 mi)

17 June 2014 — Heiden toOssingen, 160.4 km (99.7 mi)

18 June 2014 — Ossingen toBüren an der Aare, 183.6 km (114.1 mi)

19 June 2014 — Büren an der Aare toDelémont, 192.8 km (119.8 mi)

20 June 2014 —Worb, 24.5 km (15.2 mi),individual time trial (ITT)

21 June 2014 — Delémont toVerbier, 219.1 km (136.1 mi)

22 June 2014 —Martigny toSaas-Fee, 156.5 km (97.2 mi)

In the 2014 Tour de Suisse, three different jerseys were awarded. For thegeneral classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and the leader received a yellow jersey.^[2] This classification was considered the most important of the Tour de Suisse, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race. There was also amountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a red jersey.^[2] In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs; there were twenty-one categorised climbs in the race, split into five distinctive categories.^[2]

The third jersey represented the points classification, marked by a white-and-red jersey.^[2] In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing highly in a stage. For stages 4, 5, 6 and 8, the win earned 25 points, second place earned 20 points, third 16, fourth 13, fifth 11, and one point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th.^[2] For all other stages, the win earned 15 points, second place earned 12 points, third 10, and one point fewer per place down to a single point for 12th.^[2] Points could also be earned at intermediate sprints for finishing in the top 3 at intermediate sprint points during each stage on a 6–3–1 scale.^[2] There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.^[2]

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