It took place in Hoogerheide, Netherlands on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February 2014.
Hoogerheide is also the place where the Grand Prix Adri van der Poel is held, up to the 2012–13 season a race in the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup.
This world championship saw 229 cyclists taking part, as much as the record that was set in Tábor four years before.
[1] Macedonia and Serbia participated for the first time ever, both sending a rider to the Junior Men category.
It is 3.443 km (2.139 mi) long consisting for 13% out of road, 14% out of forest and the remaining 73% is meadow.