Vuelta a Costa Rica 2013

Vuelta kölbi a Costa Rica 2013
Host country	Costa Rica
Competition period	17.-29. December 2013
Stages	twelve stages
overall length	1532.85 km
Starting field	79 drivers from 7 nations in 13 teams (67 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Juan Carlos Rojas 38:04:06 h 2. Elias Vega + 13:48 min 3. Bryan Villalobos + 22:15 min
Team evaluation	JPS-Giant 114: 43: 24 h
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Juan Carlos Rojas
Scoring	Juan Carlos Rojas
Sprint scoring	José Vega
Mountain scoring	Juan Carlos Rojas
U-23 rating	Elias Vega
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The 49th Vuelta a Costa Rica (officially: Vuelta kölbi a Costa Rica ) took place from December 17th to 29th, 2013 in Costa Rica .

The bike race was part of the UCI America Tour 2014 , where it was classified in category 2.2 . The first eight drivers in the overall standings and the first three of each stage as well as those wearing the yellow jersey of the overall leader received points for the America ranking list after each stage.

The overall winner of the stage race was the local Juan Carlos Rojas (JPS-Giant) for the third time in his career . His second-placed team-mate Elias Vega , who won the U-23 classification, was almost fourteen minutes behind. This was the biggest advantage ever in an international stage race of the 2013 season. The podium was completed by another Costa Rican, namely Bryan Villalobos (Agricenter Coronado Hotel Los Lagos). With his success, Rojas is now the sole record winner of the tour. In addition to the overall classification, the points and mountains classification also went to the Costa Rican.

Attendees

Six domestic Costa Rican teams and five foreign teams, including three national selections, competed. With RusVelo , a Professional Continental Team also took part in the race. German speaking drivers were not there.

Other teams from abroad Colombia FR For The Planet Canel's Turbo Team National teams  Guatemala  Cuba  Russia 0

Professional Continental Team RusVelo Regional teams from Costa Rica JPS-Giant Coopenae Movistar Economy BCR Pizza Hut Powerade Frijoles Los Tierniticos Agricenter Coronado Hotel Los Lagos Olman Ramirez-SRAM

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner	Overall leader
1.	December 17th	Puerto Limon - Puerto Limon	134.38		Yevgeny Kovalyov	Yevgeny Kovalyov
2.	December 18th	Puerto Limón - Guápiles	174.03		José Vega	José Vega
3.	19. December	Guápiles - San Carlos	140.76		Juan Carlos Rojas
4th	20th of December	Chachagua San Ramón - Liberia	156.92		Jean-Michel Lachance	Juan Carlos Rojas
5.	21st December	Liberia - Santa Cruz	147.95		Alexander Sergeevich Serov
6th	December 22	Santa Cruz - San Ramon de los Palmares	174.17		José Vega
7th	23rd of December	Cachí - Paraíso	10.64		Juan Carlos Rojas
R.	24th of December	Rest day			0 - 0
8th.	25 December	Circuito Presidente	118.4		Nieves Carrasco
9.	December 26th	Orotina - Parrita	140.35		Carlos Brenes
10.	December 27th	Parrita - Pérez Zeledón	135.75		Juan Carlos Rojas
11.	December 28th	La Unión de San Pedro Pérez Zeledón - Buenos Aires	39.37		Juan Carlos Rojas
12.	December 29th	Pérez Zeledón - San José	157.05		Juan Carlos Rojas

Web links

• Official website of the Costa Rican Cycling Federation (Spanish)
• Results of the race on live-radsport.ch
• Vuelta a Costa Rica 2013 in the database of Radsportseiten.net