1989 Vuelta a España

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Classifications	21 stages, 3656 km
General	Pedro 'Perico' Delgado 93:01:17 h
Points	Malcolm Elliot 161 p.
Mountains	Oscar de Jesus Vargas 142 p.
Teams	Kelme 279:07:56 h

The 44th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from April 24 to May 15, 1989. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 3656 km, and was won by Pedro Delgado of the Reynolds cycling team.

Pedro Delgado had won the previous Tour de France and was seen as the favourite for the race. Delgado came with a Reynolds team that contained Miguel Indurain who had just won Paris-Nice and was also seen as a potential favourite. The first few days of the race saw the leaders jersey change shoulders from Gino de Bakker, Benny van Brabant and Roland LeClercq. The Colombian Omar Hernandez took the lead on the fifth stage. On the 11th stage to Cerler, Delgado battled with four Colombians and won the stage. He won the stage 14 time trial where Colombian Martin Farfan took the leaders jersey. On the following stage to Santander, Delgado took the jersey. However Delgados team had a bad day several stages later when Indurain fell and broke his wrist and Delgado had difficulty keeping the jersey from Fabio Parra. Parra was only two seconds behind Delgado on the general classification at one stage. The final time trial was the final chance for Parra to try to take the jersey from Delgado but Delgado won and increased his lead to win his third grand tour.

[edit] Results

[edit] Final General Classification

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1	Pedro Delgado	Reynolds	93h 01' 47s
2	Fabio Parra	Kelme	a 35s
3	Óscar de Jesús Vargas	Postobón	a 3' 09s
4	Federico Echave	BH-Sport	a 3' 24s
5	Álvaro Pino	BH-Sport	a 4' 28s
6	Ivan Ivanov	Alfa Lum	a 5' 00s
7	Iñaki Gastón	Kelme	a 7' 24s
8	Pedro Saúl Morales	Kelme	a 7' 59s
9	Jean Claude Bagot	R.M.O.	a 8' 23s
10	Luc Suykerbuyk	Lotus-Zahor	a 9' 44s
11	Angel Ocana Perez	Lotus-Zahor
12	Martin Ramirez Ramirez	Café de Colombia
13	Carlos-María Jaramillo	Postobón
14	Jaanus Kuum	AD Renting
15	José Martín Farfan	Café de Colombia
16	Jesus Blanco Villar	Seur
17	Hector Patarroyo	Postobón
18	Pedro Ruiz Cabestany	ONCE
19	Gerardo Moncada Guiza	Postobón
20	Marino Lejarreta	Caja Rural-Orbea
21	Enrique Aja Cagigas	Teka
22	Javier Murguialday	BH Sport
23	Jon Unzaga Bombin	Seur
24	Eduardo Chozas Olmo	ONCE
25	Didier Virvaleix	Histor-Sigma

[edit] External links

• La Vuelta (Official site in Spanish, English, and French)

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