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The 1994 Vuelta a España was the 49th Edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling’s Grand Tours. The Vuelta started on April 25 with a short 9 km (5.6 mi) prologue around the Spanish city of Valladolid. The race came to a close on May 15 with a flat stage that stretched from Palazuelos de Eresma to the Spanish capital of Madrid. Seventeen teams entered the race, which was won by Tony Rominger of the Mapei–CLAS team. Second and third respectively were the Spanish riders Mikel Zarrabeitia and Pedro Delgado. Tony Rominger became the first rider to win the Vuelta a España three consecutive times. Amongst the race’s other classifications, Laurent Jalabert of the ONCE team won the points classification, Festina–Lotus rider Luc Leblanc won the mountains classification, Mauro Radaelli of the Brescialat team won the intermediate sprints classification, and Amore & Vita rider Alessio Di Basco won the special sprints classification. Banesto finished as the winners of the team classification, which ranked each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. 1994 Vuelta a España Race details Dates 25 April – 15 May Stages 20 + Prologue Distance 3,531.6 km (2,194 mi) Winning time 92h 07′ 48″ Results Winner Tony Rominger (SUI) (Mapei–CLAS) Second Mikel Zarrabeitia (ESP) (Banesto) Third Pedro Delgado (ESP) (Banesto) Points Laurent Jalabert (FRA) (ONCE) Mountains Luc Leblanc (FRA) (Festina–Lotus) Sprints Mauro Radaelli (ITA) (Brescialat) Team Banesto ← 1993 1995 → Teams Amore & Vita Artiach-Royal Fruco Banesto Brescialat Cavas Castellblanch Euskadi–Petronor Festina–Lotus Jolly-Cage Kelme–Avianca–Gios Mapei–CLAS Mercatone Uno–Medeghini Navigare–Blue Storm ONCE Recer-Boavista Santa Clara-Samara Sicasal-Acral TVM–Bison Kit Route and stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 25 April Valladolid 9 km (6 mi) Individual time trial Tony Rominger (SUI) 2 26 April Valladolid to Salamanca 178.4 km (111 mi) Plain stage Laurent Jalabert (FRA) 3 27 April Salamanca to Cáceres 239 km (149 mi) Plain stage Laurent Jalabert (FRA) 4 28 April Almendralejo to Córdoba 235.6 km (146 mi) Plain stage Endrio Leoni (ITA) 5 29 April Córdoba to Granada 166.9 km (104 mi) Plain stage Laurent Jalabert (FRA) 6 30 April Granada to Sierra Nevada 151.7 km (94 mi) Stage with mountain(s) Tony Rominger (SUI) 7 1 May Baza to Alicante 256.5 km (159 mi) Plain stage Simone Biasci (ITA) 8 2 May Benidorm to Benidorm 39.5 km (25 mi) Individual time trial Tony Rominger (SUI) 9 3 May Benidorm to Valencia 166 km (103 mi) Plain stage Jean-Paul van Poppel (NED) 10 4 May Igualada to Andorra-Arcalís (Andorra) 205 km (127 mi) Stage with mountain(s) Ángel Camargo (COL) 11 5 May Andorra la Vella (Andorra) to Cerler 195.3 km (121 mi) Stage with mountain(s) Tony Rominger (SUI) 12 6 May Benasque to Zaragoza 226.7 km (141 mi) Plain stage Laurent Jalabert (FRA) 13 7 May Zaragoza to Pamplona 201.6 km (125 mi) Plain stage Laurent Jalabert (FRA) 14 8 May Pamplona to Sierra de la Demanda 174 km (108 mi) Stage with mountain(s) Tony Rominger (SUI) 15 9 May Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Santander 209.3 km (130 mi) Hilly stage Alessio Di Basco (ITA) 16 10 May Santander to Lakes of Covadonga 147.7 km (92 mi) Stage with mountain(s) Laurent Jalabert (FRA) 17 11 May Cangas de Onís to Monte Naranco 150.4 km (93 mi) Stage with mountain(s) Bart Voskamp (NED) 18 12 May Ávila to Ávila 189 km (117 mi) Stage with mountain(s) Giuseppe Calcaterra (ITA) 19 13 May Ávila to Palazuelos de Eresma 171 km (106 mi) Stage with mountain(s) Marino Alonso (ESP) 20 14 May Segovia to Palazuelos de Eresma 53 km (33 mi) Individual time trial Tony Rominger (SUI) 21 15 May Palazuelos de Eresma to Madrid 165.7 km (103 mi) Plain stage Laurent Jalabert (FRA) Total 3,531 km (2,194 mi) Classification leadership Classification leadership by stage Stage Winner General classification Points classification Mountains classification Team classification P Tony Rominger Tony Rominger Tony Rominger not awarded Banesto 1 Laurent Jalabert 2 Laurent Jalabert Laurent Jalabert José Manuel Uría 3 Endrio Leoni Ignacio García Camacho 4 Laurent Jalabert Luc Leblanc 5 Tony Rominger Mapei–CLAS 6 Simone Biasci 7 Tony Rominger Tony Rominger 8 Jean-Paul van Poppel Luc Leblanc Banesto 9 Ángel Camargo Tony Rominger 10 Tony Rominger Tony Rominger Mapei–CLAS 11 Laurent Jalabert Laurent Jalabert 12 Laurent Jalabert 13 Tony Rominger 14 Alessio Di Basco Banesto 15 Laurent Jalabert 16 Bart Voskamp 17 Giuseppe Calcaterra Luc Leblanc 18 Marino Alonso 19 Tony Rominger Tony Rominger 20 Laurent Jalabert Laurent Jalabert Final Tony Rominger Laurent Jalabert Luc Leblanc Banesto Final standings Legend Denotes the winner of the General classification Denotes the winner of the Points classification Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification Denotes the winner of the Intermediate sprints classification Denotes the winner of the Special sprints classification General classification Rider Team Time 1 Tony Rominger (SUI) Mapei–CLAS 92h 07′ 48″ 2 Mikel Zarrabeitia (ESP) Banesto + 7′ 28″ 3 Pedro Delgado (ESP) Banesto + 9′ 27″ 4 Alex Zülle (SUI) ONCE + 10′ 54″ 5 Oliverio Rincón (COL) ONCE + 13′ 09″ 6 Luc Leblanc (FRA) Festina–Lotus + 15′ 27″ 7 Vicente Aparicio (ESP) Banesto + 15′ 48″ 8 Luis Pérez (ESP) Cavas Castellblanch + 16′ 46″ 9 Fernando Escartín (ESP) Mapei–CLAS + 16′ 54″ 10 Alberto Camargo (COL) Artiach-Royal Fruco + 20′ 35″ Points classification Rider Team Points 1 Laurent Jalabert (FRA) ONCE 243 2 Tony Rominger (SUI) Mapei–CLAS 227 3 Alex Zülle (SUI) ONCE 121 4 Mikel Zarrabeitia (ESP) Banesto 117 5 Pedro Delgado (ESP) Banesto 89 6 Juan Carlos González Salvador (ESP) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni 83 7 Oliverio Rincón (COL) ONCE 78 8 Jean-Paul van Poppel (NED) Festina–Lotus 77 9 Roberto Pagnin (ITA) Navigare–Blue Storm 67 10 Paulo-Antonio Fanelli (ITA) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni 64 Mountains classification Rider Team Points 1 Luc Leblanc (FRA) Festina–Lotus 158 2 Michele Coppolillo (ITA) Navigare–Blue Storm 148 3 Tony Rominger (SUI) Mapei–CLAS 136 4 Oliverio Rincón (COL) ONCE 99 5 Mikel Zarrabeitia (ESP) Banesto 76 Team classification Team Time 1 Banesto 276h 42′ 43″ 2 Mapei–CLAS + 10′ 01″ 3 ONCE + 18′ 15″ 4 Cavas Castellblanch + 40′ 55″ 5 Festina–Lotus + 43′ 32″ 6 Artiach-Royal Fruco + 48′ 18″ 7 Kelme–Avianca–Gios + 54′ 52″ 8 Euskadi–Petronor + 1h 40′ 24″ 9 Mercatone Uno–Medeghini + 1h 51′ 54″ 10 Recer-Boavista + 2h 30′ 44″ Intermediate sprints classification Rider Team Points 1 Mauro Radaelli (ITA) Brescialat 44 2 Orlando Rodrigues (POR) Artiach-Royal Fruco 29 3 Roberto Pagnin (ITA) Navigare–Blue Storm 22 4 Fabio Roscioli (ITA) Brescialat 8 5 Julio Cesar Cadena (COL) Kelme–Avianca–Gios 7 Special sprints classification Rider Team Points 1 Alessio Di Basco (ITA) Amore & Vita 39 2 Giuseppe Calcaterra (ITA) …
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The 38th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 19 April to 8 May 1983. It consisted of 19 stages covering a total of 3,398 km (2,111 mi), and was won by Bernard Hinault of the Renault-Elf-Gitane cycling team. The foreign favourites for the race included Bernard Hinault who had won the Vuelta once before in 1978 and World Champion Giuseppe Saronni. The Spanish favourites for the race included the de facto defending champion Marino Lejarreta, Julián Gorospe and Alberto Fernández. Hinault took the leadership of the race after the fifth stage only to lose it the following day to Lejarreta. Lejarreta then won the stage 8 38 km (24 mi) mountain time trial and increased his lead over Hinault. On the stage from Zaragoza to Soria that was won by Saronni, Lejarreta had a fall and lost the jersey to Gorospe. Fernández took the leadership the following day. Lejarreta came back and won the stage 13 to Lagos de Covadonga. However Fernández kept the leader’s jersey. On the following stage Álvaro Pino took the jersey and wore it for two days. Hinault won the individual time trial but did not win by enough time to take the jersey which passed again to Gorospe. Two days later Hinault’s pace on the climb to Puerto de Serranillos was too hot for his opponents and he won the stage in Ávila and took back the leader’s jersey to win his second Vuelta and his eighth grand tour with Lejarreta second and Fernández in third. The great battle waged between Hinault and the Spanish riders has led to the 1983 race being described as its most spectacular edition. In addition to this the start list for the 1983 Renault team at the Vuelta included Hinault, Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon, the only time they rode on the same team in a Grand Tour. This victory proved costly for Hinault however, as due to a recurrent tendinitis issue that had developed in his knee, which he greatly aggravated on the climb to Puerto de Serranillos, Hinault was unable to ride in that year’s Tour, where Fignon took over Team Renault. 1983 Vuelta a España Route map Race details Dates 19 April – 8 May Stages 19 + Prologue, including 1 split stage Distance 3,398 km (2,111 mi) Winning time 94h 28′ 26″ Results Winner Bernard Hinault (FRA) (Renault-Elf-Gitane) Second Marino Lejarreta (ESP) (Alfa Lum-Olmo) Third Alberto Fernández (ESP) (Zor-Gemeaz) Points Marino Lejarreta (ESP) (AAlfa Lum-Olmo) Mountains José Luis Laguía (ESP) (Reynolds-Galli) Sprints Sabino Angoitia (ESP) (Hueso) Team Zor-Gemeaz ← 1982 1984 → Route List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner P 19 April Almussafes – Almussafes 6.8 km (4 mi) Individual time trial Dominique Gaigne (FRA) 1 20 April Almussafes – Cuenca 235 km (146 mi) Juan Fernández (ESP) 2 21 April Cuenca – Teruel 152 km (94 mi) Eric Vanderaerden (BEL) 3 22 April Teruel – Sant Carles de la Ràpita 241 km (150 mi) Giuseppe Petito (ITA) 4 23 April Sant Carles de la Ràpita – Sant Quirze del Vallès 192 km (119 mi) Laurent Fignon (FRA) 5 24 April Sant Quirze del Vallès – Castellar de n’Hug 195 km (121 mi) Alberto Fernández (ESP) 6 25 April La Pobla de Lillet – Viella 235 km (146 mi) Marino Lejarreta (ESP) 7 26 April Les – Sabiñánigo 137 km (85 mi) Jesús Suárez Cueva (ESP) 8 27 April Sabiñánigo – Balneario de Panticosa fr 38 km (24 mi) Individual time trial Marino Lejarreta (ESP) 9 28 April Panticosa – Alfajarín 183 km (114 mi) Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) 10 29 April Zaragoza – Soria 174 km (108 mi) Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) 11 30 April Soria – Logroño 185 km (115 mi) Eric Vanderaerden (BEL) 12 1 May Logroño – Burgos 147 km (91 mi) Noël Dejonckheere (BEL) 13 2 May Aguilar de Campoo – Lakes of Covadonga 188 km (117 mi) Marino Lejarreta (ESP) 14 3 May Cangas de Onís – León 195 km (121 mi) Carlos Hernández (ESP) 15a 4 May León – Valladolid 134 km (83 mi) Pascal Poisson (FRA) 15b 4 May Valladolid – Valladolid 22 km (14 mi) Individual time trial Bernard Hinault (FRA) 16 5 May Valladolid – Salamanca 162 km (101 mi) José Luis Laguía (ESP) 17 6 May Salamanca – Ávila 216 km (134 mi) Bernard Hinault (FRA) 18 7 May Ávila – Palazuelos de Eresma (Destilerías DYC) 204 km (127 mi) Jesús Hernández Úbeda (ESP) 19 8 May Palazuelos de Eresma (Destilerías DYC) – Madrid 135 km (84 mi) Michael Wilson (AUS) Total 3,398 km (2,111 mi) Results Final General Classification Rank Rider Team Time 1 Bernard Hinault Renault-Elf-Gitane 94h 28′ 26″ 2 Marino Lejarreta Alfa Lum-Olmo + 1′ 12″ 3 Alberto Fernández Zor-Gemeaz + 3′ 58″ 4 Alvaro Pino Zor-Gemeaz + 5′ 09″ 5 Hennie Kuiper Jacky Aernoudt-Rossin + 10′ 26″ 6 Eduardo Chozas Olmo Zor-Gemeaz + 11′ 11″ 7 Laurent Fignon Renault-Elf-Gitane + 11′ 27″ 8 Pedro Munoz Rodriguez Zor-Gemeaz + 12′ 25″ 9 Vicente Belda Kelme + 13′ 28″ 10 Faustino Rupérez Zor-Gemeaz + 13′ 36″ 11 Guillermo De La Pena Hueso-Motta 12 Julián Gorospe Reynolds-Galli 13 Alain Vigneron Renault-Elf-Gitane 14 Claudio Bortolotto Del Tongo-Colnago 15 Pedro Delgado Reynolds-Galli 16 José Antonio Cabrero Hueso-Motta 17 Faustino Cueli Arce Teka 18 Leonardo Natale Del Tongo-Colnago 19 Lucien Didier Renault-Elf-Gitane 20 Angel De Las Heras Kelme 21 Jesus Rodriguez Magro Zor-Gemeaz 22 Jesus Hernandez Ubeda Reynolds-Galli 23 Roberto Ceruti Del Tongo-Colnago 24 José Luis Laguía Reynolds-Galli 25 Martial Gayant Renault-Elf-Gitane
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Almost anyone with even the least amount of cycling knowledge is aware about the Tour de France, which is one of the world’s most popular sporting events. In the world of cycling, though, la Vuelta a Espana (or commonly known as the Tour of Spain) is not far behind. Started several years behind the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia (Italy’s version of the multistage bicycle event), the Vuelta a Espana makes up for the cycling Grand Tour. Over the years, there have been 70 editions of the Vuelta a Espana with each of them featuring a different route. However, the format of the race has remained largely similar with a minimum of two time trails, mountain stages, and a conclusion in Madrid. In recent times, the event has been held over the course of 21 days aside from 2 rest days. Keeping in line with the tradition, the 71th edition of the Vuelta a Espana has a unique course that starts in Ourense, which is a town in the north west of Spain. Vuelta a Espana 2023 – Stages and Routes Team time trial kicks off the Vuelta 2023 action in the region with high Portuguese influence since it is not far from the Portuguese border. Kicking off on August 14, Vuelta 2023 carries on until September 15. Riders will have completed a distance of just over 3270 km by the time they complete the 21 stages. The gruelling race is likely to be won by good climbers rather than great flat riders. This is because much of the Vuelta 2023 route is through mountains. A whopping 51 mountain passes will play its part in the Vuelta 2023 odds before one can think about a victory. Teams with great flat riders, however, are unlikely to be disappointed since there are seven flat stages in the Vuelta 2023 route. Riders will have to negotiate one individual time trial and one team time trial. Incidentally, the Vuelta 2023 stages are a return to the usual format given that the organisers chose several mountainous and hilly stages within the opening two weeks for the 2015 edition. These stages usually occur towards the latter part of the race and are a key factor in Vuelta 2023 bet online strategies. It remains to be seen if a return to the format where there are several flat stages in the opening few days of the tournament will have a profound effect on Vuelta 2023 odds. Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 1 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 2 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 3 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 4 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 5 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 6 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 7 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 8 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 9 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 10 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 11 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 12 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 13 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 14 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 15 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 16 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 17 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 18 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 19 Vuelta v Profile stage 20 Vuelta 2023 Profile stage 21
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Media has played a major role in the creation of the three major cycling events in the world – Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, and the Spanish version – La Vuelta a Espana. Conservative Spanish newspaper, Diario Informaciones, was responsible for the creation of la Vuelta a Espana in 1935, as Spain wanted its own version of Tour de France. Only 50 riders took part in the first edition, which is still regarded as one of the most gruelling and toughest. Belgian rider Gustave Deloor won the first-ever red jersey (yellow jersey is given to Tour de France winners). Vuelta Jersey Incidentally, the colour of the jersey has changed numerous times since the inception of the event. It has largely been down to the sponsors for the changing colours. Vuelta a Espana originally started with the orange jerseys for the winners. In the last few decades, though, gold has predominantly been the colour for the Tour of Spain winners, but this was changed to red in 2010 in order to avoid confusion with the Tour de France jersey. Tough History Deloor had to overcome extremely tough competition from Spanish rider Mariano Canardo. Fortune was on the side of the Belgian and it is still seen as a major factor that prevented a Spaniard from winning the inaugural Vuelta a Espana. The Vuelta 2022 covers a distance of almost 3277 km split into 21 stages. The inaugural race, however, was divided only into 14 stages, but riders had to cover an even greater distance of 3411 km. This was one of the reasons behind the race being considered extremely tough; some stages required the riders to cover as much as 250 km in a single day. Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 1 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 2 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 3 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 4 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 5 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 6 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 7 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 8 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 9 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 10 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 11 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 12 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 13 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 14 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 15 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 16 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 17 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 18 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 19 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 20 Vuelta 2017 Profile stage 21 This would be almost unthinkable in today’s circumstances. Even Vuelta 2022 has only one stage that exceeds 200 km in a single day while stages at present average at around 150 km per day. The task was made even more gruelling since riders did not have access to the super lightweight bikes that dominate the scenario today. Instead, they had extremely heavy bicycles made out of iron, which made them susceptible to frequent punctures and damages. Furthermore, they were extremely hard to get up a hilly stage. Climbers over Sprinters Right from the inception, Tour of Spain has predominantly favoured good climbers when it comes to overall classifications. Climbing specialists have grown to love the terrain, which features some incredible ascends along the course. The 8-mile stretch at the Alto de el Angliru in Asturias is probably the most famous, as riders ascend to 5000 feet in this small distance. The race in pictures Vuelta a Espana has seen numerous riders dominate the event. Swiss national Tony Rominger won the race for three consecutive years during the early 1990s, while Spaniard Roberto Heras was immensely dominant during the start of the millennium by winning three Vuelta titles. Alberto Contador remains as one of the few to have completed a clean sweep of all three Grand Tours. He was crowned as the champion of Vuelta a Espana in 2008.
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