Vuelta a España 1998

The 53rd Vuelta a España was held in 22 sections and 3774 kilometers from September 6th to 27th, 1998 and won by the Spaniard Abraham Olano . Adriano Baffi won the points classification , José María Jiménez the mountains classification , Giancarlo Raimondi the Meta Volantes classification and Banesto the team classification .

This race was Lance Armstrong's first big tour since he got cancer. Surprisingly for many experts, he finished fourth. He had previously been known more as a one-day racing specialist . His result, like all his results after August 1st, 1998, was revoked on October 22nd, 2012 because of a doping disqualification by the UCI, the World Cycling Federation . The placement was not reassigned after a decision on October 26, 2012.

Stages

stage	from	to	km	winner	Jersey oro
1	Cordoba	Cordoba	161.7	Markus Zberg	Markus Zberg
2	Cordoba	Cadiz	234.6	Jeroen Blijlevens
3	Cadiz	Estepona	192.6	Jaan Kirsipuu	Laurent Jalabert
4th	Málaga	Granada	173.5	Fabrizio Guidi	Fabrizio Guidi
5	Olula del Río	Murcia	165.5	Jeroen Blijlevens
6th	Murcia	Xorret de Catí	201.5	José María Jiménez	José María Jiménez
7th	Alicante	Valencia	181.5	Giovanni Lombardi
8th	Palma	Palma	181.5	Fabrizio Guidi
9	Alcúdia	Alcúdia	39.5 ( EZF )	Abraham Olano	Abraham Olano
10	Vic	Estación de Pal ( Andorra )	199.3	José María Jiménez
11	Andorra	Aramón Cerler	186	José María Jiménez
12	Benasque	Jaca	187	Gianni Bugno
13	Sabiñánigo	Sabiñánigo	208.5	Andrei Zinchenko
14th	Biescas	Zaragoza	155.5	Marcel Wüst
15th	Zaragoza	Soria	178.7	Andrei Zinchenko
16	Soria	Laguna Negra de Neila	143.7	José María Jiménez
17th	Burgos	Leon	188.5	Marcel Wüst
18th	Leon	Salamanca	223	Fabrizio Guidi
19th	Ávila	Segovia	170.4	Roberto Heras
20th	Segovia	Alto de Navacerrada	206	Andrei Zinchenko	José María Jiménez
21st	Fuenlabrada	Fuenlabrada	39 (EZF)	Alex Zülle	Abraham Olano
22nd	Madrid	Madrid	163	Markus Zberg

Final results

winner	Abraham Olano	93:44:08 h
Second	Fernando Escartín	+ 1:23 min
Third	José María Jiménez	+ 2:12 min
Fourth	Lance Armstrong	+ 2:18 min
fifth	Laurent Jalabert	+ 2:37 min
Sixth	Roberto Heras	+ 2:58 min
seventh	Álvaro González de Galdeano	+ 5:51 min
Eighth	Alex Zülle	+ 6:05 min
Ninth	Marco Serpellini	+ 8:58 min
Tenth	Marcos Serrano	+ 10:17 min
Scoring	Fabrizio Guidi	206 P.
Second	Laurent Jalabert	158 P.
Third	José María Jiménez	127 P.
Mountain scoring	José María Jiménez	184 P.
Second	Laurent Jalabert	93 P.
Third	Fernando Escartín	92 P.
Meta flounces rating	Giancarlo Raimondi	53 P.
Team evaluation	Banesto	281: 14: 43 h
Second	Kelme	+ 8:58 min
Third	Festina	+ 28:59 min

Web links

• Vuelta a España 1998 in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} uci.ch of October 22, 2012: The UCI recognizes USADA decision in Armstrong case ( Memento of the original of January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} uci.ch of October 26, 2012: Press release: UCI takes decisive action in wake of Lance Armstrong affair ( Memento of the original of October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.