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The 2014 Tour de San Luis was the eight edition of the Tour de San Luis cycling stage race. It was rated as a 2.1 on the UCI America Tour, and was held from 20 to 26 January 2014 in the San Luis Province in Argentina.

The race was won by Nairo Quintana of the after he won the fourth stage of the race to Cerro El Amago, and held the race leader's ochre jersey to the finish, on stage 7, in Terrazas del Portezuelo. Quintana's winning margin over runner-up rider Vincenzo Nibali was 27 seconds, and 's Carlos Betancur completed the podium, 1 minute and 30 seconds down on Nibali and 1 minute and 57 seconds in arrears of Quintana.

Quintana added to his general classification win the red jersey of the mountains classification and the white jersey of the young rider classification, as he eventually was the best placed rider under the age of 25. It was Peter Sagan who won the green jersey of the points classification for by one point over Nibali, having won the two uphill sprints on stages 3 and 7, and taking the jersey on the last day as well, while Ag2r-La Mondiale won the teams classification, after also placing Domenico Pozzovivo inside the top ten, as well as Betancur, and Jean-Christophe Péraud in eleventh overall.

The other stages were taken by 's Mark Cavendish, who won the opening stage, Taylor Phinney of the, who won the time trial stage, and rider Joaquim Rodríguez who won the two other mountain stages, as well as leading the race for two days.

Participating teams
Twenty-five teams competed in the 2014 Tour de San Luis. These included twelve UCI World Tour teams, nine UCI Professional Continental teams and four national teams.

The teams that participated in the race were:


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 * (PCT)
 * Argentina national team (NT)
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 * (PCT)
 * Buenos Aires Provincia (CT)
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 * Chile national team (NT)
 * (PCT)
 * Cuba national team (NT)
 * Clube Dattaro de Cicilismo-Bottecchia (CT)
 * (WT)
 * Jamis-Hagens Berman (CT)
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 * (WT)
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 * (WT)
 * (CT)
 * (WT)
 * (PCT)
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 * Uruguay national team (NT)

Pre-race favourites
Among the startlist, there were several highly rated stage race riders. Of those, Vincenzo Nibali, Joaquim Rodríguez and Nairo Quintana  were the main favourites for the general classification. Other prominent stage race riders were team leaders Domenico Pozzovivo, Carlos Betancur and Jean-Christophe Péraud, with Pozzovivo expected to be their leader for the race, Michele Scarponi who was expected to ride for Astana leader Nibali, Damiano Cunego, Jurgen van den Broeck  and Haimar Zubeldia. The Argentinians, meanwhile, put their hopes on climbers Eduardo Sepúlveda and Daniel Díaz  to fight for the general classification.

Also in the startlist were highly rated sprinters. The likes of Manuel Belletti, Peter Sagan , Leonardo Duque , Tyler Farrar , Juan José Haedo (Jamis-Hagens Berman), Luca Paolini (Team Katusha) and Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek Factory Racing) were all present. , meanwhile fielded there three top sprinters, with Tom Boonen and Alessandro Petacchi expected to work for Mark Cavendish.

Classification leadership table
In the 2014 Tour de San Luis, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received an ochre jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2014 Tour de San Luis, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.

Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 10 points, with one point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a red jersey. 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. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1989 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. 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.


 * Notes:
 * In stage 2, Peter Sagan, who was third in the points classification, wore the green jersey because Mark Cavendish, in first place, wore the ochre jersey as leader of the general classification, and Elia Viviani, in second place, wore the white jersey as leader of the young rider classification during that stage.
 * In stage 3, Mark Cavendish, who was second in the points classification, wore the green jersey because Joaquim Rodríguez, in first place, wore the ochre jersey as leader of the general classification during that stage.
 * In stages 3 and 4, Nairo Quintana, who was third in the mountains classification, wore the red jersey because Joaquim Rodríguez, in first place, wore the ochre jersey as leader of the general classification and Carlos Betancur, in second place, wore the white jersey as leader of the young rider classification during those stages.
 * In stage 5, Peter Sagan, who was second in the points classification, wore the green jersey because Nairo Quintana, in first place, wore the ochre jersey as leader of the general classification during that stage.
 * In stages 5 and 6, Carlos Betancur, who was second in the mountains classification, wore the red jersey because Nairo Quintana, in first place, wore the ochre jersey as leader of the general classification during those stages. Also, Daniel Díaz, who was third in the young rider classification, wore the white jersey because Betancur, in second place, wore the red jersey and Quintana was also in first place in that classification, during those stages.
 * In stage 7, Joaquim Rodríguez, who was second in the mountains classification, wore the red jersey because Nairo Quintana, in first place, wore the ochre jersey as leader of the general classification, during that stage. Also, Carlos Betancur, who was second in the young rider classification, wore the white jersey because Quintana was also in first place in that classification, during that stage.