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1990 Vuelta a España

Race details
Dates	24 April - 15 May
Stages	22
Distance	3,680 km (2,287 mi)
Winning time	94h 36' 40"
Results
Winner  Marco Giovannetti (ITA) (Seur)   Second  Pedro Delgado (ESP) (Banesto)   Third  Anselmo Fuerte (ESP) (ONCE) Points  Uwe Raab (GDR) (PDM) Mountains  José Martín Farfán (COL) (Kelme-Ibexpress) Youth  Uwe Ampler (GDR) (PDM) Combination  Federico Echave (ESP) (CLAS-Cajastur) Sprints  Miguel Ángel Iglesias (ESP) (Puertas Mavisa)   Team ONCE
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The 45th Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 24 April to 15 May 1990. It consisted of 22 stages covering a total of 3,680 km (2,287 mi), and was won by Marco Giovannetti of the Seur cycling team.

Defending champion Pedro Delgado was the principal favourite for the win of the race. Delgado was joined by a strong Banesto team that included Miguel Induráin and Julián Gorospe. The other Spanish favourites included 1986 winner Álvaro Pino as well as Anselmo Fuerte and 1982 winner Marino Lejarreta. Of the potential foreign winners were the strong Colombians which included Fabio Parra and Lucho Herrera.

Pello Ruiz Cabestany won the opening time trial and took the first leader's jersey. The following day a breakaway got away and Viktor Klimov took the jersey. On the sixth stage a break won the day and took an advantage of over four minutes. Gorospe took the leader's jersey. However, on the eleventh stage, Gorospe had a bad day and lost the jersey to Marco Giovannetti who had been second on the general classification and had been in the break that gained the time on the favourites. Delgado tried to close the gap to Giovannetti over the remainder of the race but could not. Giovannetti won his first and only grand tour ahead of Delgado and Anselmo Fuerte.

Route

List of stages

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	24 April	Benicàssim – Benicàssim	10.3 km (6 mi)		Individual time trial	Pello Ruiz Cabestany (ESP)
2a	25 April	Oropesa – Castellón	108 km (67 mi)			Emilio Cuadrado (ESP)
2b	25 April	Benicàssim – Borriana	36.3 km (23 mi)		Team time trial	Lotus–Festina
3	26 April	Dénia – Murcia	196.3 km (122 mi)			Silvio Martinello (ITA)
4	27 April	Murcia – Almería	226.2 km (141 mi)			Erwin Nijboer (NED)
5	28 April	Almería – Sierra Nevada	198 km (123 mi)			Patrice Esnault (FRA)
6	29 April	Loja – Ubrique	195.2 km (121 mi)			Jesper Worre (DEN)
7	30 April	Jerez – Seville	190.3 km (118 mi)			Benny Van Brabant (BEL)
8	1 May	Seville – Mérida	187.6 km (117 mi)			Atle Pedersen (NOR)
9	2 May	Cáceres – Guijuelo	192.7 km (120 mi)			Néstor Mora (COL)
10	3 May	Peñaranda de Bracamonte – León	226.8 km (141 mi)			Uwe Raab (DDR)
11	4 May	León – San Isidro [es]	203 km (126 mi)			Carlos Hernández (ESP)
12	5 May	San Isidro [es] – Naranco	156 km (97 mi)			Alberto Camargo (COL)
13	6 May	Oviedo – Santander	193.3 km (120 mi)			Nico Emonds (BEL)
14	7 May	Santander – Nájera	207.5 km (129 mi)			Bernd Gröne (FRG)
15	8 May	Ezcaray – Valdezcaray	24.1 km (15 mi)		Individual time trial	Jean-François Bernard (FRA)
16	9 May	Logroño – Pamplona	165.5 km (103 mi)			Uwe Raab (DDR)
17	10 May	Pamplona – Jaca	155.3 km (96 mi)			Federico Echave (ESP)
18	11 May	Jaca – Cerler	178.5 km (111 mi)			José Martín Farfán (COL)
19	12 May	Benasque – Zaragoza	223.6 km (139 mi)			Asiat Saitov (URS)
20	13 May	Zaragoza – Zaragoza	40 km (25 mi)		Individual time trial	Pello Ruiz Cabestany (ESP)
21	14 May	Collado Villalba – Palazuelos de Eresma	188.6 km (117 mi)			Denis Roux (FRA)
22	15 May	Segovia – Madrid	177 km (110 mi)			Uwe Raab (DDR)
	Total		3,680 km (2,287 mi)

Results

Final General Classification

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1	Marco Giovannetti	Seur	94h 36' 40s
2	Pedro Delgado	Banesto	a 1' 28s
3	Anselmo Fuerte	ONCE	a 1' 48s
4	Pello Ruiz Cabestany	ONCE	a 2' 16s
5	Fabio Parra	Kelme-Ibexpress	a 3' 07s
6	Federico Echave	CLAS-Cajastur	a 3' 52s
7	Miguel Induráin	Banesto	a 6' 22s
8	Ivan Ivanov	Alfa Lum	a 6' 48s
9	Uwe Ampler	PDM-Concorde	a 7' 15s
10	Denis Roux	Toshiba	a 7' 56s
11	José Martín Farfán	Kelme-Ibexpress
12	Luis Herrera	Café de Colombia
13	Carlos Jaramillo	Postóbon
14	Ignacio Gaston Crespo	CLAS-Cajastur
15	José Francisco Rodríguez	Pony Malta-Avianca
16	Tony Rominger	Chateaux d'Ax
17	Alvaro Mejia	Postóbon
18	Jesús Montoya	BH-Amaya
19	Álvaro Sierra	Café de Colombia
20	Jon Unzaga Bombin	Seur
21	Julián Gorospe	Banesto
22	Alberto Luis Camargo	Café de Colombia
23	José Luis Laguia	Lotus-Festina
24	Pablo Wilches	Pony Malta-Avianca
25	Gerardo Moncada	Postóbon

References

1. "Vuelta a España 1990". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
2. ^ "Vuelta a Espana 90". El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 22 April 1990. p. 40. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
3. ^ "45ème Vuelta a España 1990". Memoire du cyclisme (in French). Archived from the original on 12 January 2005.
4. "Ciclismo / Vuelta a España, Clasificaciones" (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo. 16 May 1990. p. 41. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 March 2022.
5. "Ciclismo / Vuelta a España, Clasificaciones" (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo. 16 May 1990. p. 42. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 November 2020.

External links

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

• 1990 Vuelta a España
• Vuelta a España by year
• 1990 in road cycling
• 1990 in Spanish sport