Vuelta a Asturias

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Vuelta a Asturias
Race details
Date	Early-May
Region	Asturias, Spain
English name	Tour of Asturias
Local name(s)	Vuelta a Asturias (Spanish)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Stage-race
Organiser	Club Ciclista Aramo
History
First edition	1925
Editions	51 (as of 2007)
First winner	Segundo Barruetabeña
Most wins	Ricardo Montero Federico Bahamontes Jesús Manzaneque Faustino Rupérez Juan Carlos Domínguez (2 wins)
Most recent	Koldo Gil

Vuelta a Asturias is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early May each year. The event was first run in 1925 but has not been held consistently until 1968 to present. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour

[edit] Winners

		Rider
1925		Segundo Barruetabeña
1926		Ricardo Montero
1927		Miguel Muncio
1928		Ricardo Montero
1929-1956	No race
1947		Emilio Rodríguez
1948-1949	No race
1950		Miguel Gual
1951-1952	No race
1953		Antonio Gelabert
1954		Bernardo Ruiz
1955		Federico Bahamontes
1956		Emilio Hernán
1957		Federico Bahamontes
1958-1967	No race
1968		Jesús Manzaneque
1969		Andrés Oliva
1970		Antonio Martos
1971		Eduardo Castelló
1972		Agustín Tamames
1973		Jesús Manzaneque
1974		Juan Santiesteban
1975		Miguel María Lasa
1976		Santiago Lazcano
1977		Vicente López-Carril
1978		Enrique Martínez Heredia
1979		Alberto Fernández
1980		Faustino Rupérez

		Rider		Team
1981		Ángel Arroyo
1982		Jerónimo Ibáñez
1983		Pedro Muñoz
1984		Faustino Rupérez
1985		Jesús Blanco Villar
1986		Jesús Rodríguez Magro
1987		Iñaki Gastón
1988		Rolf Gölz
1989		Gert-Jan Theunisse
1990		Raúl Alcalá
1991		Piotr Ugrumov
1992		Alex Zülle
1993		Erik Breukink
1994		Abraham Olano
1995		Beat Zberg
1996		Miguel Induráin
1997		Manuel Fernández Ginés
1998		Laurent Jalabert
1999		Juan Carlos Domínguez
2000		Joseba Beloki
2001		Juan Carlos Domínguez
2002		Leonardo Piepoli
2003		Fabian Jeker
2004		Iban Mayo
2005		Adolfo García Quesada
2006		Óscar Sevilla
2007		Koldo Gil
2008		Ángel Vicioso