Vuelta al Táchira 2005

Vuelta al Táchira 2005
Racing series	UCI America Tour  -  Category 2.2
Host country	Venezuela
Competition period	8-21 January 2005
Stages	14th
overall length	1800 km
Starting field	130 from 5 nations in 15 teams (69 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. José Rujano 45:48:40 h 2. José Chacón + 1:48 min 3. Carlos Maya + 3:05 min
Team evaluation	Loteria del Tachira 137: 34: 46 h
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	José Rujano
Scoring	José Chacón
Mountain scoring	José Rujano
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The 40th Vuelta al Táchira took place from January 8 to 21, 2005 in Venezuela . The bike race was held in fourteen stages over a distance of 1800 kilometers. It belonged to the UCI America Tour 2005 and was classified in category 2.2.

Overall winner was the Venezuelan José Rujano from Selle Italia-Colombia ahead of his compatriots José Chacón and Carlos Maya (both Loteria del Táchira ). Rujano first captured the jersey on the sixth stage, only to lose it again to José Chacón. But in the time trial on the penultimate day he regained the overall lead and defended it on the final stage. Rujano also secured the mountain classification , while Chacón won the points classification . Rujano repeated his previous success at the Vuelta al Táchira with the victory.

Attendees

At the start were teams from Colombia , Cuba , Chile , Mexico and Venezuela , including two national teams. A total of fifteen teams took part.

Selle Italia-Colombia Loteria del Táchira  Cuba national team	Trujillo CTD Cafe Flor Patria Mexico Tecos Bono del Ciclismo Indenorte	Triple Gordo Gob Lara Alc Jimenez Ejercito PDVSA Gob Barinas Cadela  Chile national team
Exp Occid Alc Táchira cinema Gobierno del Zulia	Exp Occid Alc S Cbal Retromaq B Gobierno Inmeder Alc Cpo Elias Merida Gobierno del Zulia Alc de Cabimas

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall leader
1.	January 8th	Maracaibo Street of July 5th Circuit	136.5	Manuel Guevara	Manuel Guevara
2.	January 9th	Maracaibo - Ciudad Ojeda	137.7	Gil Cordobés
3.	10. January	Valera circuit	178.1	Rónald González
4th	11th January	Caja Seca - Tovar	149	César Salazar
5.	January 12th	San Josecito - San Juan de Colón	149.4	Jackson Rodríguez
6th	13th January	El Vigía - Mérida circuit	121.2	José Rujano	José Rujano
7th	January 14th	Santa Cruz de Mora - La Grita	155.3	José Rujano
8th.	15. January	Seboruco - Cerro del Cristo Rey	132.2	José Chacón
9.	January 16	San Cristóbal circuit	115.2	César Salazar	José Chacón
10.	January 17th	San Rafael de El Piñal - Santa Ana del Táchira	176.8	Nelson Gelvez
11.	January 18th	Rubio circuit	128	Rónald González
12.	January 19th	Táriba - San Juan de Colon	120.2	Juan Torres
13.	January 20th	Individual time trial San Cristóbal	22nd	José Rujano	José Rujano
14th	21th January	Periceba - San Cristóbal	131	Carlos Maya

Web links

• Official website of the Vuelta al Táchira
• Results on ciclismo.8m.net
• Vuelta al Táchira 2005 in the database of Radsportseiten.net