Tour of the Basque Country 2011

Tour of the Basque Country 2011
Racing series	UCI WorldTour
Host country	Spain
Competition period	April 4-9, 2011
Stages	6 stages
overall length	874 km
Starting field	157 in 20 teams (131 of which arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Andreas Klöden 22:12:11 h 2. Christopher Horner + 00:47 min 3. Robert Gesink + 00:47 min
Team evaluation	00 Movistar Team 66:39:34 h
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Andreas Klöden
Scoring	Andreas Klöden
Mountain scoring	Michael Albasini
Sprint scoring	Bram Tankink
course
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The 51st Tour of the Basque Country (officially: Vuelta al País Vasco ) took place from April 4th to 9th, 2011. The cycling - stage race is part of the UCI World Tour in 2011 and was in six stages held. The total distance was 874 kilometers. Overall winner was Andreas Klöden ( Team RadioShack )

Attendees

The 18 ProTeams were entitled to start . In addition, the organizer distributed wild cards to the two Professional Continental Teams Geox-TMC and Caja Rural from Spain .

Participating teams

UCI ProTeams  Quickstep Cycling Team (QST)  Omega Pharma Lotto (OLO)  Saxo Bank SunGard (SBS)  ag2r La Mondiale (ALM)  Lampre ISD (LAM)  Liquigas-Cannondale (LIQ)	Astana (AST)  Rabobank (RAB)  Vacansoleil-DCM (VCD)  Katyusha (KAT)  Movistar Team (MOV)  Euskaltel-Euskadi (EUS)	Leopard Trek (LEO)  Sky ProCycling (SKY)  HTC Highroad (THR)  Garmin-Cervélo (GRM)  Team RadioShack (RSH)  BMC Racing Team (BMC)
UCI Professional Continental Teams  Geox-TMC (GEO)  Caja Rural (CJR)

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner
1.	4. April	Zumarraga	151.2		Joaquim Rodríguez
2.	April 5th	Zumarraga - Lekunberri	163		Vasil Kiryenka
3.	April 6th	Villatuerta - Zuia-Murgia	180		Alexander Vinokurov
4th	7th of April	Amurrio - Eibar (Arrate)	166		Samuel Sánchez
5.	April 8th	Eibar - Zalla	179		Francesco Gavazzi
6th	9th April	Zalla	024		Tony Martin

Leadership jerseys during the race

stage	Overall rating	Scoring	Mountain scoring	Sprint scoring	Team evaluation
1.	Joaquim Rodríguez	Joaquim Rodríguez	Mathieu Perget	Bram Tankink	Movistar team
2.	Andreas Klöden	Andreas Klöden	Maxim Iglinski
3.	Joaquim Rodríguez	Joaquim Rodríguez	Amael Moinard
4th		Andreas Klöden	Michael Albasini
5.
6th	Andreas Klöden

starter

Team Radioshack 1 - Christopher Horner 2 - Andreas Klöden 3 - Levi Leipheimer 4 - Jason McCartney 5 - Sérgio Paulinho 6 - Markel Irízar 7 - Matthew Busche 8 - Ivan Rowny	HTC highroad 11 - Tony Martin 12 - Marco Pinotti 13 - Michael Albasini 14 - Caleb Fairly 15 - Kanstanzin Siuzou 16 - Craig Lewis 17 - Tejay van Garderen 18 - Danny Godfather	Rabobank 21 - Óscar Freire 22 - Robert Gesink 23 - Luis León Sánchez Gil 24 - Juan Manuel Gárate 25 - Grischa Niermann 26 - Carlos Barredo 27 - Paul Martens 28 - Bram Tankink
BMC Racing Team 31 - Martin Kohler 32 - Ivan Santaromita 33 - Mathias Frank 34 - Mauro Santambrogio 35 - Timothy Roe 36 - Chris Butler 37 - Johann Tschopp 38 - Amaël Moinard	Sky ProCycling 41 - Michael Rogers 42 - Rigoberto Urán 43 - Xabier Zandio 44 - Thomas Lövkvist 45 - Steve Cummings 46 - Simon Gerrans 47 - Lars Petter Nordhaug 48 - Christian Knees	Lampre ISD 51 - Damiano Cunego 52 - Aitor Perez 53 - Francesco Gavazzi 54 - Alfredo Balloni 55 - Matteo Bono 56 - Przemysław Niemiec 57 - Andrei Kashechkin 58 - Denys Kostyuk
Liquigas-Cannondale 61 - Ivan Basso 62 - Francesco Bellotti 63 - Damiano Caruso 64 - Paolo Longo Borghini 65 - Mauro Finetto 66 - Dominik Nerz 67 - Simone Ponzi 68 - Maciej Paterski	Omega Pharma Lotto 71 - Jurgen Van Den Broeck 72 - Óscar Pujol 73 - Jurgen Van De Walle   75 - Dockx device 76 - Matthew Lloyd 77 - Jelle Vanendert 78 - Jussi Veikkanen	Team Garmin-Cervélo 81 - Christian Vande Velde 82 - Ryder Hesjedal 83 - Christophe Le Mével 84 - Tom Danielson 85 - Murilo Fischer 86 - Daniel Martin 87 - Thomas Peterson 88 - Andrew Talansky
Leopard Trek 91 - Andy Schleck 92 - Frank Schleck 93 - Jens Voigt 94 - Jakob Fuglsang 95 - Stefan Denifl 96 - Maxime Monfort 97 - Anders Lund 98 - Fabian Wegmann	ag2r La Mondiale 101 - Rinaldo Nocentini 102 - Jean-Christophe Péraud 103 - Mickaël Chérel 104 - Dimitri Champion 105 - John Gadret 106 - Matteo Montaguti 107 - David Le Lay 108 - Mathieu Perget	Euskaltel-Euskadi 111 - Samuel Sánchez 112 - Pablo Urtasun 113 - Amets Txurruka 114 - Egoi Martínez 115 - Gorka Verdugo 116 - Iñaki Isasi 117 - Iván Velasco 118 - Juan José Oroz
Katyusha 121 - Joaquim Rodríguez 122 - Danilo Di Luca 123 - Vladimir Karpez 124 - Alexander Kolobnev 125 - Giampaolo Caruso 126 - Daniel Moreno 127 - Alberto Losada 128 - Eduard Worganow	Movistar team 131 - David Arroyo 132 - Marzio Bruseghin 133 - David López García 134 - Beñat Intxausti 135 - Xavier Tondo 136 - José Vicente García Acosta 137 - Angel Madrazo 138 - Vasil Kiryenka	Vacansoleil DCM 141 - Matteo Carrara 142 - Johnny Hoogerland 143 - Wout Poels 144 - Michał Gołaś 145 - Sergey Lagutin 146 - Maxim Belkov   148 - Santo Anzà
Pro team Astana 151 - Alexander Vinokurov 152 - Enrico Gasparotto 153 - Josep Jufré 154 - Rémy Di Gregorio 155 - Fredrik Kessiakoff 156 - Dmitri Fofonov 157 - Maxim Iglinski 158 - Sergei Renew	Saxo Bank SunGard 161 - Richie Porte 162 - Nicki Sørensen 163 - Chris Anker Sørensen 164 - André Steensen 165 - Brian Vandborg 166 - Manuele Boaro 167 - Mads Christensen 168 - Laurent Didier	Quick Step 171 - Jérôme Pineau 172 - Addy Engels 173 - Dario Cataldo 174 - Marco Bandiera 175 - Francesco Reda 176 - Kristof Vandewalle 177 - Kevin Seeldraeyers 178 - Julien Vermote
Geox-TMC 181 - Fabio Duarte 182 - Mauricio Ardila 183 - Noe Gianetti 184 - David de la Fuente 185 - Rafael Valls 186 - Juan José Cobo 187 - Fabio Felline 188 - Daniele Ratto	Caja Rural 191 - Iñigo Cuesta 192 - Aitor Galdós 193 - Julián Sánchez 194 - José Herrada 195 - Javier Moreno 196 - Egoitz García 197 - Higinio Fernandez 198 - Garikoitz Bravo

Individual evidence

See also

• Basque Country

Web links

• Official website
• Tour of the Basque Country 2011 in the database of Radsportseiten.net