2014 women's 'cross world championship features new Saturday start

Marianne Vos will seek her seventh 'cross world championship on home turf at the 2014 Worlds in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.

Marianne Vos will seek her seventh 'cross world championship on home turf at the 2014 Worlds in Hoogerheide, Netherlands. (Image credit: Dave McElwaine/trailwatch.net)

Since the first elite women's cyclo-cross world championship was contested in 2000 at Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands, the women's race has taken place on Sunday mornings, prior to the elite men's contest, in the two-day format.