Vuelta a Toledo

The Vuelta a Toledo is a road bike race that is held regularly in August in the Spanish province of Toledo . The organizer of the stage race was the "Eagle of Toledo" Federico Bahamontes up to and including the 2015 staging .

The competition was initially reserved for amateurs and was entered in the national Spanish cycling calendar, but had regular international participation. The race was considered preparation for the most important Spanish amateur tour of the time, the Circuito Montañés . Later, the Vuelta a Toledo served professional cycling teams as an important means of talent spotting. The most famous winners included the future professionals José Luis Viejo , Daniel Moreno and Juan Antonio Flecha .

The Vuelta a Toledo is usually held over four stages, including neither time trials nor mountain finishes, and is therefore often decided on the windy opening sections.

winner

1966 Enrique Cifuentes Vega 1967 Agustín Tamames 1968 Manuel Sánchez 1969 José Antonio Pontón 1970 Felix Gonzalez Gorostizaga 1971 José Luis Viejo 1972 Jacques Marquette 1973 Stanisław Szozda 1974 Stanisław Szozda 1975 Jésus Lopez Carril 1976 Bernardo Rey 1977 Anastasio Greciano 1978 Angel Camarillo 1979 Angel Ocaña 1980 Juan José Cubillo 1981 J. Gerard Poirot 1982 Aleksandr Averin

1983 Eugenio Herranz 1984 José Fernando Pacheco 1985 Jesus Cruz Martín 1986 José López Carrión 1987 Gabriel Sabbiao 1988 Gonzalo Guirao 1989 Luis Barroso Gomez 1990 José Luis Santos Arriba 1991 David Plaza 1992 Linas Knistautas 1993 Thierry Elissalde 1994 Savier Pascual Llorente 1995 Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero 1996 Carlos Golbano 1997 Anton Chantyr 1998 Vicente Bernabéu 1999 Juan Antonio Flecha

2000 Luis-Fernando Poyatos 2001 Rubén González De Castro 2002 Luis Pasamontes 2003 Daniel Moreno 2004 Rodrigo García Rena 2005 Juan Carlos Fernández Mora 2006 Pablo Hernan Marcos 2007 José Vicente Toribio 2008 Raúl García de Mateos 2009 Carlos Oyarzun 2010 Thomas Vaubourzeix 2011 Ibon Zugasti 2012 Diego Tamayo 2013 Edison Bravo Mansilla 2014 Pedro Merino 2015 Mikel Aristi 2016 Gonzalo Serrano

literature

• Alasdair Fotheringham: End of an Era . In: Procycling , German edition . December, 2015, p. 82 ff .

Web links

• Vuelta a Toledo in the database of Radsportseiten.net