Exceptional Provisions 2016

Ergebnislisten Weltradsportwoche 2016 - Tageswertung

1.) General Provisions

Every participant takes part on one's own risks and costs. The road traffic regulations have to be followed strictly and the organizer is refusing liability and responsibility for any contraventions and the consequences in general.

2.) Obligation for wearing helmets

During the whole race there is the obligation to wear homologated hard shell helmets.

3.) Time trial machines

Time trial machines are only allowed for time trial disciplines for those categories which are alloted in the race regulations, even not for the prologue.

4.) Time trial disciplines:

Accompanying vehicles are, like in all other races of Hartbergerland World Cycling Week 2016, not allowed! ATTENTION: Warming up, arrival and departure with the bike on the race track is, like crossing the midle line (which means to leave the race track and is a danger for the other racing athletes), will be sanctioned with immediate disqualification for the mentioned time trial race and the cancellation of all reached times for the overall ranking.

5.) Race regulations

The regulations of the Austrian cycling union (ÖRV) and the international cycling union (UCI) have to be followed strictly during the whole race and any contraventions will be sanctioned rigorously according to Art. 12 of the ÖRV.-WFB.

6.) Morphologic reasons

Morphologic reasons don't need any demand, but time trail machines which have a distance of 50 mm from the top of the saddle to axle bearing center or the end of the mudcap charge must not exceed 750 mm. So every athlete can choose his ideal sitting position. The maximum saddle fall must not have more than 3 degree, inclusive the allowed limit of tolerance.

7.) Vehicles in support

During the whole World Cycling Week and the bike marathon from 11th to 21st August 2016 no vehicles in support are allowed in the race, as well as in street races, due to traffic issues and governmental reasons. However, persons in support will be allowed to stay in neuralgic positions of the route and give technical support in the framework of the race regulations. If vehicles in support will be found on the race route during the race, the athlete will be sanctioned and disqualified.

8.) Overall winner

Each category will have an overall winner at the end of the World Cycling Week 2016. The overall winner is the athlete with the shortest overall racing time in all races, except the bike marathon. If there are some athletes with the same overall racing time, the split seconds of the single time trial will be counted. If there are still overall winners with the same time, the best rankings of all race results in obligation will be counted. All athletes, who do not take part in the prologue and take part at the overall ranking, get the time of the last finisher of their category in the prologue.

9.) Medical controls

During the whole event duration of the 44th FIS RSC World Cycling Week from 11th to 21st Augsut 2016, medical controls will be located at the race office in the Stadtwerke-Hartberg-Halle. In case of controls, the athlete concerned has to come to the Stadtwerke-Hartberg-Halle accompanied by a competent chaperone.

10.) Race office

The race office is located at the tourist office (Alleegasse 6, 8230 Hartberg) in the city centre of Hartberg and is daily opened during the Hartbergerland World Cycling Week 2016. The following opening times apply:

We, Aug. 10, 2016, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Th, Aug. 11, 2016, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Fr, Aug. 12, 2016, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sa, Aug. 13, 2016, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
So, Aug. 14, 2016, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Mo, Aug. 15, 2016, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tue, Aug. 16, 2016, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (race resting day)
Wed, Aug. 17, 2016, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Th, Aug. 18, 2016, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Fr, Aug. 19, 2016, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sa, Aug. 20, 2016, 9 a.m. - 12 a.m. (race resting day - number return)
So, Aug. 21, 2016, 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. (afterwards chip refund at the finish line at Lebing)

On-call duties for the race office are daily reachable from 9 a.m to 7 p.m; the service line will be announced on-site. The detailed opening times will be published on-site, as well as in the program brochure of the Hartbergerland World Cycling Week 2016.

11.) Winners ceremony

The winners ceremonies will take place, depending on the race day, at the main square of Hartberg after the races at around 7 p.m or directly at the race spot. At the first race day, the prologue, the winners ceremony will take place at around 8 p.m, where just the yellow jerseys for the leading athletes of all the categories will be handed over.

12.) Missing the deadline of the winners ceremony:

Every athlete, who is not at the winners ceremony on site in time, at least not after the third call of his name, can not assert his claim to a winners price and this price will be lost. In specific exceptional cases, the organizer is allowed to give the price to another person, who is in relation to the winner of the price.

13.) Recommendations for clothing

It is assumed that athletes wear the clothes of their cycling club or union at the winners ceremony. Wearing track jackets and race trousers or track suits is allowed. The leading athlete of the concerning category is advised to wear the yellow jersey in the following race.

14.) Attendance at the start

All athletes have to be attendant at the start 15 minutes before their starting time because starts at the prologue, circuit race and time trial disciplines are following immediately after the previous category and a short, absolutely necessary interruption after each previous category or class, and furthermore, technical controls have to be done before each race.

15.) Late entries

Principally, race registrations have to be delivered before or in time at the World Cycling Week 2016. If possible, they should be delivered before August 10th, 2016 to ensure that the starters list can be processed accurately. For the prologue on August 11th, 2016, registrations will be only accepted until August 10th, 2016 at 6 p.m. Registrations after August 10th 2016 at 12 a.m and during the World Cycling Week are treated as late entries.

16.) Tasks of a race participant

Every athlete who ends the race for any reason or is disqualified has to inform the next available race chief or race commissioner about the ending of his race. For participating in the overall ranking, the penalty time is composed of the last one's time of the concerning category plus one second. This provides the athlete with the opportunity to further take part in the overall ranking of the categories or classes of the Word Cyling Week 2016. The return of the numbers at the race office is only necessary after the final ending of the race. The same rule counts for the circuit race, which is driven in this year only to final classification, because athletes, which are just 100 meters before the lapping by the peloton, are taken out of the race.

17.) Gear ratio controls

Winners of the youth categories U13 + MU14, U15 + MU16 and juniors have to do the gear ratio controls immediately after the race or in special cases also before the race.

18.) Amateurs – Master I:

Those athletes, who got an Amateurs or Masters license from their national cycling union, are free to choose their category. To be allowed to start in Master I, the athlete's age has to be more than 40 years. If any cycling union defined an athlete as a Master, the athlete has to start in the category Master. In doing so, the first decision of the athlete, which the organizer receives at the race registration for Hartbergerland World Cycling Week 2016 is binding for all races.

19.) Instructions

The instructions of the executives, the volunteer fire department, the identified security service, the MR.-commisioners and the officials are strictly to be followed. It is explicitly forbidden to surpass, climb, to move or even remove barrier tapes or barriers. It is also strictly prohibited for anyone to change the markings, cursors and arrows, to damage or even remove them. In the case of such incidents, the police will determine and press charges against the causer at the public prosecutor .

20.) Insurance

Neither the organizers nor the commissars- and employee team of Hartbergerland World Cycling Week 2016 can be held liable for any damage, accidents or injuries of participating athletes, neither for material or health and physical secondary damages, nor for juridical consequences. Therefore an appropriate insurance is advised.

21.) Acceptance for use of photos

With the acceptance of the participating conditions of Hartbergerland World Cycling Week the athlete explicitly accepts, that photos are taken, which are published in related media.

Typesetting and typographical errors reserved.
Subject to change.

Gerhard Mayer, head of organization and Franz Kleinhappl, race director .

Gesamtergebnislisten Weltradsportwoche 2016 - Gesamtwertung

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