VIII. Gay Games Cologne 2010

Dates of Event
Saturday 31 July – Friday 6 August, 2010

Venues

• Information meeting, road race, criterium race and Mountain Bike race will be at the Sportpark Muengersdorf.
• Individual and team trial will be at the Wahner Heide near the KoelnBonn Airport.
• Road race will be at Cologne-Longerich 
  www.cologneclassic.de
   

Transportation

• Sportpark Muengersdorf:
  Take tram 1 (direction Junkersdorf/Weiden) to station "RheinEnergieStadion" or "Junkersdorf" (15 mins. from Neumarkt)
• Transportation to Wahner Heide:

Take tram 9 to final station Koenigsforst, then ca.  3 km by bike or S-Bahn from Cologne main station to airport KoelnBonn, then short walk to the starting area

• Cologne-Longerich:
  The easiest way to get to Longerich is to take the S-11 from the Hauptbahnhof (Central Station), direction Neuss/Düsseldorf. The stop is the Longerich station, a 10-minute trip from Hauptbahnhof.

for more detailed directions click here.
 

Categories and Divisions of Competition

Participants, Materials, Equipment
All racers must wear a helmet during the entire competition.
 

Road Races:

Recumbent bikes are not allowed, no tri bars and no Mountain Bikes are allowed.

The racing circuit is flat and approximately 2.2 km long. The various distances (number of laps) are:

• Men licensed 25 = 55 km
• Men unlicensed 17 = 37.4 km
• Women licensed 17 = 37.4 km
• Women unlicensed 14 = 30.8 km

Criterium
There will be a racing circuit of approximately 1.3 km.
The various distances (number of laps) are:

• Men licensed 16
• Men unlicensed 12
• Women licensed 12
• Women unlicensed 8

After each lap racers will get points in the following order:

• 5 for the first
• 3 for the second
• 2 for the third
• 1 for the fourth

Points are accumulated for the entire race and highest points win.

Any rider lapped  will be taken out of the race.
In case there are more than 50 participants in one category we will have preliminary rounds with 2/3 of the number of laps mentioned above.

Bicycles for rent
Participants in the cycle races (cycling and triathlon) can rent a bike for free for their competitions. More information here.

Mountain Bike race
There will be a racing circuit of approximately 2.5 km. The course starts with paving then proceeds into a forest and around a lake with dirt single track and includes a steep hill.
The various distances (number of laps) are:

• Men licensed 14 = 35 km
• Men unlicensed 12 = 30 km
• Women licensed 12 = 30 km
• Women unlicensed 10 = 25 km