Vuelta a España 1972

The cycle race for the 27th Vuelta a España was held in 21 sections and 3109.5 kilometers from April 27 to May 14, 1972 . The winner was the Spaniard José Manuel Fuente , who also won the mountain classification and the combined classification . The points classification won Domingo Perurena , the Meta Volantes standings won Ventura Díaz and the team KAS won in the team standings .

Stages

stage	from	to	km	winner	Maillot amarillo
prolog	Fuengirola	Fuengirola	6 ( EZF )	René Pijnen	René Pijnen
1	Fuengirola	Cabra	167	Miguel María Lasa	Miguel María Lasa
2	Cabra	Granada	206	Gerard Vianen
3	Granada	Almeria	181	Domingo Perurena	Domingo Perurena
4th	Almeria	Dehesa de Campoamor	251	Gert Harings
5	Dehesa de Campoamor	Gandia	183	Pieter Nassen
6A	Gandia	El Saler	120	Roger Kindt
6B	El Saler	El Saler	6.5 ( MZF )	CHEESE
7th	Valencia	Vinaròs	181	Jos van der Vleuten
8th	Vinaròs	Tarragona	189	Cees Koeken
9A	Tarragona	Barcelona	118	Gert Harings
9B	Barcelona	Barcelona	10 (EZF)	Jesús Manzaneque
10	Barcelona	Banyoles	192	Domingo Perurena
11	Manresa	Zaragoza	259	Luis Balagué
12	Zaragoza	Aramón Formigal	169	José Manuel Fuente	José Manuel Fuente
13	Sangüesa	Arrate	201	Agustín Tamames
14th	Eibar	Bilbao	145	Miguel María Lasa
15th	Bilbao	Torrelavega	148	Gerard Vianen
16	Torrelavega	Vitoria-Gasteiz	219	Agustín Tamames
17A	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Donostia-San Sebastian	138	Jesús Aranzabal
17B	Donostia-San Sebastian	Donostia-San Sebastian	20 (EZF)	José Antonio González

Final results

winner	José Manuel Fuente	82:34:14 h
Second	Miguel María Lasa	+ 6:34 min
Third	Agustín Tamames	+ 7:00 min
Fourth	Gonzalo Aja	+ 8:07 min
fifth	José Antonio González	+ 8:08 min
Sixth	Domingo Perurena	+ 8:23 min
seventh	Jesús Manzaneque	+ 8:27 min
Eighth	José Pesarrodona	+ 8:38 min
Ninth	Desiré Letort	+ 8:42 min
Tenth	Bernard Labourdette	+ 8:54 min
Scoring	Domingo Perurena	224 P.
Second	Miguel María Lasa	126 P.
Third	Gert Harings	114 P.
Mountain scoring	José Manuel Fuente	97 P.
Second	Andrés Oliva	73 P.
Third	Miguel María Lasa	46 P.
Meta flounces rating	Ventura Díaz	10 p.
Combination scoring	José Manuel Fuente
Team evaluation	CHEESE	247: 57: 24 h