From 14 to 24 August, around 1,000 cycling enthusiasts will come to the East Styrian district capital. During the cycling week, over 190 cycling races will be held in 21 categories.
The prologue opens the ten-day event marathon on Thursday 14 August. Hartberg is breaking new ground here, because for the first time in the history of the World Cycling Weeks, paracycling athletes are also eligible to start. In addition to the prologue, the criterium on 15 August is particularly exciting, demanding the utmost from the athletes in the professional and amateur classes as well as the handbike class, lap after lap. Their efforts will be rewarded in the evening at the atmospheric award ceremony, rounded off by an international evening.
This is followed by the road races in Bad Waltersdorf, Hartberg-Lebing, Pöllauberg and Grafendorf from 16 to 20 August. The mountain sprint on 21 August covers a distance of 5.4 kilometres and 250 metres in altitude.
The accompanying programme ranges from the athletes' fair and the Sunday children's afternoon to a cultural evening, a guided tour of the night watchmen and the Styrian Day. The final highlight of the World Cycling Week is the individual time trial with "Champions Party" on 22 August, before the Hartbergerland Cycling Marathon attracts amateur athletes to the race track on 24 August 2014.
