Vuelta a España 1989

Pedro Delgado won this time trial and in the end also the overall standings

Fabio Parra in the fight for the yellow jersey in the individual time trial from Valladolid to Medina del Campo

The 44th Vuelta a España was held in 23 sections and 3656 kilometers from April 24 to May 15, 1989 . Overall winner was the Spaniard Pedro Delgado , the points classification won Malcolm Elliott , the mountain classification and the combined classification won Óscar de Jesús Vargas . Miguel Ángel Iglesias won the Meta Volantes classification , Marcel Arntz in the Sprint Especiales classification , Iwan Iwanow in the junior classification and Kelme in the team classification .

The race was characterized by the battle for the overall standings between Delgado and his Reynolds team and the later runner-up Fabio Parra and his Kelme team. On the penultimate day with a stage over five mountain passes, the overall leader Delgado was quickly isolated from his teammates after a general attack by the Kelme team, which was made up of strong Colombian mountain specialists. He kept the gap to Parra within limits with the help of various drivers from other teams without ambitions in the overall standings and thus saved his overall lead. The riders who supported Delgado included the Russian Ivan Ivanov, who received a white envelope from Delgado in public before the start of the last stage. Delgado said it contained his address so that Ivanov and his family could visit him.

Stages

stage	from	to	km	winner	Maillot amarillo
prolog	A Coruña	A Coruña	20.1 ( EZF )	Marnix Lameire	Marnix Lameire
1	A Coruña	Santiago de Compostela	209	Joaquín Hernández Hernández	Benny Van Brabant
2A	Vigo	Vigo	34.4 ( MZF )	Caja-Rural	Roland Leclerq
2 B	Vigo	Ourense	101	Malcolm Elliott
3	Ourense	Ponferrada	160.5	Roberto Pagnin
4th	La Bañeza	Béjar	247	Eddy Planckaert
5	Béjar	Ávila	197.5	Luc Suykerbuyk	Omar Hernández
6th	Ávila	Toledo	157	Massimo Ghirotto
7th	Toledo	Albacete	235.5	Stefano Allocchio
8th	Albacete	Gandia	228	Reimund Dietzen
9	Gandia	Benicàssim	202	Herminio Díaz Zabala
10	Vinaròs	Lleida	179	Malcolm Elliott
11	Lleida	Cerler	186.5	Pedro Delgado
12	Benasque	Jaca	161	Mathieu Hermans
13	Jaca	Zaragoza	165	Mathieu Hermans
14th	Ezcaray	Valdezcaray	24 (EZF)	Pedro Delgado	Martín Farfán
15th	Haro	Santoña	193.5	Peter Hilse	Pedro Delgado
16	Santoña	Lagos de Covadonga	228	Álvaro Pino
17th	Cangas de Onís	Valgrande-Pajares	153	Ivan Ivanov
18th	Leon	Valladolid	159	Mathieu Hermans
19th	Valladolid	Medina del Campo	47.5 (EZF)	Pedro Delgado
20th	Collado Villalba	Palazuelos de Eresma	188.5	Alberto Camargo
21st	Palazuelos de Eresma	Madrid	177	Jean-Pierre Heynderickx

Final results

winner	Pedro Delgado	93:01:47 h
Second	Fabio Parra	+ 0:35 min
Third	Óscar de Jesús Vargas	+ 3:09 min
Fourth	Federico Echave	+ 3:24 min
fifth	Álvaro Pino	+ 4:28 min
Sixth	Ivan Ivanov	+ 5:00 min
seventh	Iñaki Gastón	+ 7:24 min
Eighth	Pedro Saúl Morales	+ 7:59 min
Ninth	Jean Claude Bagot	+ 8:23 min
Tenth	Luc Suykerbuyk	+ 9:44 min
Scoring	Malcolm Elliott	161 P.
Second	Mathieu Hermans	139 P.
Third	Eddy Planckaert	139 P.
Mountain scoring	Óscar de Jesús Vargas	142 P.
Second	Pedro Delgado	113 P.
Third	Ivan Ivanov	108 P.
Meta flounces rating	Miguel Ángel Iglesias	40 p.
Sprints Especiales classification	Marcel Arntz
Young talent evaluation	Ivan Ivanov	93:06:47
Combination scoring	Óscar de Jesús Vargas
Team evaluation	Kelme	279: 07: 56 h

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herbie Sykes: Geschacher on Wheels . In: Procycling , German edition . February, 2017, p. 80 ff. (83 ff.) .

Web links

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