Vuelta a España 2010
| Vuelta a España 2010 | |
| Host country |
 Spain Andorra
|
| Competition period | August 28 to September 19, 2010 |
| Stages | 21 stages |
| overall length | 3352.6 km |
| Starting field | 198 in 22 teams (156 of which arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Vincenzo Nibali 87:18:33 h 2. Peter Velits + 3:02 min 3. Joaquim Rodríguez 4:20 min |
| Team evaluation | Team Katyusha |
| Scoring jerseys | |
 Overall rating
|
Vincenzo Nibali |
 Scoring
|
Mark Cavendish |
 Mountain scoring
|
David Moncoutié |
 Combination scoring
|
Vincenzo Nibali |
| course | |
|
|
| ← Vuelta a España 2009 | Vuelta a España 2011 → |
|
 Vincenzo Nibali
|
LIQ | 87:18:33 h |
| DSQ | Ezequiel Mosquera |
XAC | + 0:41 min |
| 2. |
 Peter Velits
|
THR | + 3:02 min |
| 3. |
Joaquim Rodríguez
|
CAT | + 4:20 min |
| 4th |
 Frank Schleck
|
SAX | + 4:43 min |
| 5. |
Xavier Tondo
|
CTT | + 4:52 min |
| 6th |
 Nicolas Roche
|
ALM | + 5:03 min |
| 7th |
Carlos Sastre
|
CTT | + 6:06 min |
| 8th. |
 Tom Danielson
|
GRM | + 6:16 min |
| 9. |
Luis León Sánchez
|
GCE | + 7:42 min |
| DSQ |
|
XAC | + 9:37 min |
| 10. |
Mikel Nieve
|
EUS | + 10:58 min |
|
 Mark Cavendish
|
THR | 156 P. |
| 2. |
Tyler Farrar
|
GRM | 149 P. |
| 3. |
Vincenzo Nibali
|
LIQ | 119 P. |
|
 David Moncoutié
|
COF | 51 P. |
| 2. |
Serafín Martínez
|
XAC | 43 P. |
| DSQ | Ezequiel Mosquera |
XAC | 36 P. |
|
Vincenzo Nibali
|
LIQ | 9 p. |
| DSQ | Ezequiel Mosquera |
XAC | 11 p. |
| 2. |
Joaquim Rodríguez
|
CAT | 12 p. |
| team |
 Team Katyusha
|
CAT | 261: 48: 04 h |
| 2. |
Caisse d'Epargne
|
GCE | + 0:33 min |
| 3. |
Xacobeo Galicia
|
XAC | + 12:33 min |
The 65th Vuelta a España took place from August 28, 2010 to September 19, 2010 and was won by the Italian Vincenzo Nibali .
Characteristic and route
The three-week tour of the Spanish country consisted of 21 stages over a total distance of 3352.6 kilometers. It started in Seville with a team time trial over 13 kilometers. A total of five stages ended with a mountain finish . Six stages were held in the low mountain range . An individual time trial over 46 kilometers was held in Peñafiel . The tour ended on September 19, 2010 in Madrid .
Result and doping
With Nibali victory , an Italian won for the first time in 20 years after Marco Giovannetti .
Three drivers were tested for the doping agent HES during the competition : Oscar Sevilla , the overall runner-up Ezequiel Mosquera and his team-mate David García . HES is a blood plasma expander that does not increase performance, but is suitable for masking other doping substances. At the end of 2011, Mosquera was banned by the Spanish Cycling Federation for the period from November 16, 2011 to November 15, 2013 and all of its results have been canceled since September 12, 2010, so that his stage win in the twentieth section and second overall place were revoked.
Field of participants
On June 14, 2010 the organizer Unipublic presented the 22 invited teams to the public. This allowed all UCI ProTeams except RadioShack to take part in the Spanish national tour . In addition, five Professional Continental Teams were given start authorization.
- ProTeams
- Professional Continental Teams
Stage overview
The route of the 65th edition of the Vuelta a España was presented to the public on December 16, 2009 in Seville.
| Stages | Type | Day | Start finish | km | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st stage |  |
Saturday, August 28th | Seville - Seville | 13 | |||||
| 2nd stage |  |
Sun, August 29th | Alcalá de Guadaíra - Marbella | 173.7 | |||||
| 3rd stage | |
Mon., August 30th | Marbella - Málaga | 156 | |||||
| 4th stage | |
Tuesday, August 31 | Málaga - Valdepeñas de Jaén | 177 | |||||
| 5th stage |  |
Wed., September 1st | Guadix - Lorca | 194 | |||||
| 6th stage | |
Thursday, September 2nd | Caravaca de la Cruz - Murcia | 144 | |||||
| 7th stage | |
Friday, September 3rd | Murcia - Orihuela | 170 | |||||
| 8th stage | |
Saturday, September 4th | Villena - Xorret de Catí | 188.8 | |||||
| 9th stage | |
Sun, September 5th | Calp - Alcoi | 187 | |||||
| 1st day of rest | Mon., September 6th | - | |||||||
| 10th stage | |
Tuesday, September 7th | Tarragona - Vilanova i la Geltrú | 173.7 | |||||
| 11th stage |  |
Wed, September 8th | Vilanova i la Geltrú - Vallnord sector Pal (Andorra) | 208 | |||||
| 12th stage | |
Thursday, September 9th | Andorra la Vella - Lleida | 175 | |||||
| 13th stage | |
Friday, September 10th | Rincon de Soto - Burgos | 193.7 | |||||
| 14th stage | |
Sat, September 11th | Burgos - Peña Cabarga | 178.8 | |||||
| 15th stage | |
Sun, September 12th | Solares - Lagos de Covadonga | 170 | |||||
| 16th stage | |
Mon., September 13th | Gijón - Cotobello | 179.3 | |||||
| 2nd day off | Tuesday, September 14th | - | |||||||
| 17th stage | |
Wed., September 15 | Peñafiel - Peñafiel | 46 | |||||
| 18th stage | |
Thursday, September 16 | Valladolid - Salamanca | 153 | |||||
| 19th stage | |
Friday, September 17th | Piedrahíta - Toledo | 200 | |||||
| 20th stage | |
Sat, September 18 | San Martín de Valdeiglesias - Bola del Mundo | 168.6 | |||||
| 21st stage | |
Sun, September 19th | San Sebastian de los Reyes - Madrid | 100 | |||||
Ratings in the course of the tour
The table shows the leader in the respective classification at the end of the respective stage.
1 The points awarded on the 1st stage were later deleted.
2 The original stage winner Ezequiel Mosquera was disqualified.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ radsport-news.com from October 1st, 2010: Mosquera, Garcia and Sevilla are allowed to continue racing
- ↑ Sanctions, period of ineligibility, disqualification on uci.ch ( memento from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 20, 2013 (pdf)
- ↑ Live-Radsport.ch: 22 teams of the Vuelta a España now fixed, Radioshack does not receive an invitation. June 14, 2010, accessed June 14, 2010 .
- ↑ Live-Radsport.ch: Vuelta a España 2010: Start in the night and five mountain arrivals. December 16, 2009. Retrieved December 16, 2009 .
Web links
- Official website
- Vuelta a España 2010 in the ProCyclingStats.com database