[1] It was the seventeenth race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season.

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.

For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and the leader received a yellow jersey.

There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a red jersey.