Vuelta a España 1996

The 51st Vuelta a España was held in 22 sections and 3898 kilometers from September 7th to 29th, 1996 and won by the Swiss Alex Zülle . Laurent Jalabert won the points classification , Tony Rominger the mountains classification , Jürgen Werner the Meta Volantes classification and Team Polti the team classification .

Stages

stage	from	to	km	winner	Maillot amarillo
1	Valencia	Valencia	162	Biagio Conte	Biagio Conte
2	Valencia	Cuenca	210	Nicola Minali
3	Cuenca	Albacete	167	Laurent Jalabert	Laurent Jalabert
4th	Albacete	Murcia	166.5	Tom Steels
5	Murcia	Almeria	208	Jeroen Blijlevens
6th	Almeria	Málaga	196.5	Fabio Baldato	Fabio Baldato
7th	Málaga	Marbella	171	Fabio Baldato
8th	Marbella	Jerez de la Frontera	220	Nicola Minali
9	Jerez de la Frontera	Cordoba	230.5	Nicola Minali
10	El Tiemblo	Ávila	46.5 ( EZF )	Alex Zülle	Alex Zülle
11	Ávila	Salamanca	188	Marco Antonio Di Renzo
12	Benavente ( POR )	Alto del Naranco	188	Daniele Nardello
13	Oviedo	Lagos de Covadonga	159	Laurent Jalabert
14th	Cangas de Onís	Cabárceno	202.5	Biagio Conte
15th	Cabárceno	Valdezcaray	220	Alex Zülle
16	Logroño	Sabiñánigo	221	Biagio Conte
17th	Sabiñánigo	Aramón Cerler	165.5	Oliverio Rincon
18th	Benasque	Zaragoza	219.5	Dmitri Konyshev
19th	Getafe	Ávila	217	Laurent Dufaux
20th	Ávila	Segovia	209.5	Gianni Bugno
21st	Segovia	Segovia	43 (EZF)	Tony Rominger
22nd	Madrid	Madrid	157.5	Tom Steels

Final results

winner	Alex Zülle	97:31:46 h
Second	Laurent Dufaux	+ 6:23 min
Third	Tony Rominger	+ 8:29 min
Fourth	Roberto Pistore	+ 10:13 min
fifth	Stefano Faustini	+ 11:21 min
Sixth	Georg Totschnig	+ 11:33 min
seventh	Davide rebel	+ 13:16 min
Eighth	Andrea Perón	+ 14:46 min
Ninth	Bobby Julich	+ 15:10 min
Tenth	Fernando Escartín	+ 18:36 min
Scoring	Laurent Jalabert	237 P.
Second	Nicola Minali	163 P.
Third	Tom Steels	142 P.
Mountain scoring	Tony Rominger	153 P.
Second	Laurent Jalabert	120 p.
Third	Dmitri Konyshev	107 P.
Meta flounces rating	Jürgen Werner	50 p.
Team evaluation	Team Polti	293: 10: 54 h