Tour of the Basque Country 2010

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Final result after the 6th stage
winner United StatesUnited States Christopher Horner 23:27:30 h
DSQ SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde + 0:07 min
Second SpainSpain Beñat Intxausti + 0:58 min
Third SpainSpain Joaquim Rodríguez + 1:06 min
Fourth FranceFrance Jean-Christophe Péraud + 1:10 min
fifth ItalyItaly Marco Pinotti + 1:18 min
Sixth FranceFrance Sandy Casar + 1:47 min
seventh SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez + 1:58 min
Eighth NetherlandsNetherlands Robert Gesink + 1:59 min
Ninth BelgiumBelgium Dries Devenyns + 2:27 min
Tenth BelgiumBelgium Jurgen Van Den Broeck + 2:37 min
Scoring SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde 106 P.
First SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez 79 P.
Second SpainSpain Óscar Freire 60 p.
Third United StatesUnited States Christopher Horner 53 P.
Mountain scoring SpainSpain Gonzalo Rabuñal 23 p.
Second SpainSpain Alberto Benítez 19 p.
Third SwitzerlandSwitzerland Michael Albasini 16 p.
Intermediate sprint ranking CanadaCanada Christian Meier 14 p.
Second DenmarkDenmark Jakob Fuglsang 9 p.
Third SpainSpain Egoi Martínez 9 p.
Team evaluation United StatesUnited States Team HTC-Columbia 70:28:40 h
Second United StatesUnited States Team Radioshack + 0:17 min
Third SpainSpain Euskaltel-Euskadi + 2:14 min

The 67th Tour of the Basque Country took place from April 5th to 10th, 2010. The race was held in six stages .

Alejandro Valverde was subsequently suspended from January 1, 2010 and all victories and placements were stripped of him.

Stages

stage Day Start finish km Type Stage winner
1st stage April 5th Ornamental bana 152 Mountain stage SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde Óscar Freire
SpainSpain 
2nd stage April 6th Zierbana - Viana 209 Mountain stage SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde Óscar Freire
SpainSpain 
3rd stage 7th of April Viana - Amurrio 187 Mountain stage ItalyItaly Francesco Gavazzi
4th stage April 8th Murgia Zuia - Eibar 166 Mountain stage SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez
5th stage 9th April Eibar - Orio 170 Mountain stage SpainSpain Joaquim Rodríguez
6th stage 10th of April Orio 022nd Individual time trial United StatesUnited States Christopher Horner

Jerseys in the course of the race

stage Yellow jersey Overall rating Green jersey Scoring White jersey with red dots Mountain scoring White jersey Intermediate sprint ranking Yellow start number Team evaluation
1st stage Alejandro Valverde Alejandro Valverde Gonzalo Rabuñal Christian Meier Team RadioShack
2nd stage
3rd stage Óscar Freire Óscar Freire
4th stage Alejandro Valverde Alejandro Valverde Amets Txurruka
5th stage
6th stage Christopher Horner Gonzalo Rabuñal Team HTC-Columbia