Vuelta a España 1999

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Final result after the 21st stage
winner Jan Ullrich 89:52:03 h
(39.449 km / h)
Second Igor González de Galdeano + 4:15 min
Third Roberto Heras + 5:57 min
Fourth Pavel Tonkov + 7:53 min
fifth José María Jiménez + 9:24 min
Sixth José Luis Rubiera + 10:13 min
seventh Manuel Beltran + 11:20 min
Eighth Leonardo Piepoli + 13:13 min
Ninth Iván Parra + 16:20 min
Tenth Santiago Blanco + 18:15 min
Scoring Frank Vandenbroucke 129 P.
Second Robert Hunter 123 P.
Third Igor González de Galdeano 122 P.
Fourth Jan Ullrich 116 P.
fifth Roberto Heras 96 P.
Mountain scoring José María Jiménez 133 P.
Second Frank Vandenbroucke 90 p.
Third Roberto Heras 89 P.
Fourth Iñigo Chaurreau 86 P.
fifth Igor González de Galdeano 67 P.
Intermediate sprint ranking Robert Hunter 54 P.
Second German Nieto 21 p.
Third Andrea Tafi 16 p.
Fourth Fabio Roscioli 15 p.
fifth Frank Vandenbroucke 13 P.
Team evaluation Banesto 269: 08: 49 h
Second Kelme-Costa Blanca + 15:04 min
Third Vitalicio Seguros + 23:45 min
Fourth Mapei-Quick Step + 1:18:26 h
fifth Euskaltel-Euskadi + 1:35:29 h

The 54th Vuelta a España took place from September 4th to 26th, 1999 . The 189 riders field had to cover a total of 3576 km on the 21 stages and the prologue from Murcia to Madrid .

The overall leader received the golden jersey for the first time on this tour , as a new main sponsor for this jersey was presented with the Spanish telephone provider Telefonica .

route

The drivers started in Murcia with a 6 km long prologue. On the following 21 stages, the riders expected five mountain arrivals. Among other things, the Alto de Angliru , with up to 23% steep ramps and roads paved especially for the Vuelta, was in the program for the first time. Compared to the previous year, the tour was almost 300 km shorter, but the kilometers in the two individual time trials increased from 78.5 to 103. The organizers wanted to match the characteristics of the other two major tours, the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia , approach and thus increase the attractiveness.

Participating teams

course

The first winner of the golden jersey was the Spaniard Igor González de Galdeano , who won the prologue. But then the tour developed into a German gala performance. While the German sprinter Marcel Wüst won the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th stages and took the overall lead for two days, Jan Ullrich also triumphed . The captain of the Deutsche Telekom team , who actually only wanted to use the Vuelta to prepare for the upcoming World Cup, won the 6th stage in the sprint of a leading group and from the 12th stage slipped on the leader's jersey, which he took to Madrid no longer gave. In Arcalís ( Andorra ) Ullrich had already laid the foundation for his Tour de France victory in in 1997. In the final individual time trial , Ullrich again put his competitors in their place. The other favorites like Abraham Olano and Alex Zülle could not endanger the winner at any time. The big surprise of the three-week tour was Igor González de Galdeano, who was sensationally second overall.

The historic first arrival on the Alto de Angliru was decided by José María Jiménez , after he caught up with Pawel Tonkow, who had been the leader until then, by almost a minute on the last three kilometers of the climb and only caught up with him 500 m from the finish.

Stages

Stages Day Start finish km Stage winner Golden jersey Golden jersey
prolog September 4th Murcia 6.1 SpainSpain Igor González de Galdeano SpainSpain Igor González de Galdeano
1st stage 5th September Murcia - Benidorm 179 South AfricaSouth Africa Robert Hunter FranceFrance Jacky Durand
2nd stage September 6th Alicante - Albacete 206 GermanyGermany Marcel Wüst
3rd stage 7th of September La Roda - Fuenlabrada 229.5 GermanyGermany Marcel Wüst GermanyGermany Marcel Wüst
4th stage September 8th Las Rozas - Salamanca 185.6 GermanyGermany Marcel Wüst
5th stage the 9th of September Béjar - Ciudad Rodrigo 160 GermanyGermany Jan Ullrich SpainSpain Abraham Olano
6th stage September 10 Salamanca 46.4 ( EZF ) SpainSpain Abraham Olano
7th stage September 11 Salamanca - León 217 GermanyGermany Marcel Wüst
8th stage 12th September León - Alto de Angliru 175.6 SpainSpain José María Jiménez
9th stage 13.september Gijón - Los Corrales de Buelna 185.8 FranceFrance Laurent Brochard
Rest day
10th stage September 15th Zaragoza 183.2 UkraineUkraine Sergei Outshakov SpainSpain Abraham Olano
11th stage 16th September Huesca - Val d'Aran ( Pla-de-Beret ) 201 ItalyItaly Daniele Nardello
12th stage 17th of September Sorp - Andorra-Arcalís ( AND ) 147.4 SpainSpain Igor González de Galdeano GermanyGermany Jan Ullrich
13th stage September 18 Andorra - Berga ( Castellar del Riu ) 149 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Alex Zülle
14th stage September 19th Barcelona 141 * ItalyItaly Fabio Roscioli
15th stage September 20th La Senia - Valencia 193.4 RussiaRussia Vyacheslav Yekimov
16th stage 21st September Valencia - Teruel 200.4 BelgiumBelgium Frank Vandenbroucke
17th stage September 22 Los Ronchales - Guadalajara 225 ItalyItaly Cristian Moreni
18th stage September 23rd Guadalajara - Alto de Abantos 166.3 SpainSpain Roberto Laiseka
19th stage September 24th El Escorial - Avila 184.6 BelgiumBelgium Frank Vandenbroucke
20th stage 25th of September El Tiemblo - Avila 46.5 ( EZF ) GermanyGermany Jan Ullrich
21st stage September 26th Madrid 163 BelgiumBelgium Jeroen Blijlevens

* shortened to 95 km due to heavy rain

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