2000 Vuelta a España explained

2000 Vuelta a España
Date:	26 August - 17 September
Stages:	21
Distance:	2893.6
Unit:	km
Time:	70h 26' 14"
First:	Roberto Heras
First Nat:	ESP
First Color:	gold
Second:	Ángel Casero
Second Nat:	ESP
Third:	Pavel Tonkov
Third Nat:	RUS
Points:	Roberto Heras
Points Nat:	ESP
Points Color:	silver
Mountains:	Carlos Sastre
Mountains Nat:	ESP
Mountains Color:	whiteblue
Sprints:	Gianni Faresin
Sprints Nat:	ITA
Sprints Color:	blue
Previous:	1999
Next:	2001

The 55th edition of the Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 26 August to 17 September 2000. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 2904km (1,804miles), and was won by Roberto Heras of the cycling team. The defending champion, Jan Ullrich, withdrew after the 12th stage while sitting in fourth place to prepare for the Olympic Road Race.^[1] ^[2]

Teams and riders

See main article: List of teams and cyclists in the 2000 Vuelta a España.

Route

List of stages^[3] ^[4]
Stage	Date	Course	Distance
1	26 August	Málaga – Málaga	13.3km (08.3miles)	Individual time trial
2	27 August	Málaga – Córdoba	167.5km (104.1miles)
3	28 August	Montoro – Valdepeñas	198.4km (123.3miles)
4	29 August	Valdepeñas – Albacete	159km (99miles)
5	30 August	Albacete – Xorret de Catí	152.3km (94.6miles)
6	31 August	Benidorm – Valencia	155.5km (96.6miles)
7	1 September	Valencia – Morella	175km (109miles)
8	2 September	Vinaròs – Port Aventura	168.5km (104.7miles)
9	3 September	Tarragona – Tarragona	37.6km (23.4miles)
10	4 September	Sabadell – Supermolina	165.8km (103miles)
11	5 September	Alp – Arcalis (Andorra)	136.5km (84.8miles)
	6 September			Rest day
12	7 September	Zaragoza – Zaragoza	131.5km (81.7miles)
	8 September			Rest day
13	9 September	Santander – Santander	143.3km (89miles)
14	10 September	Santander – Lakes of Covadonga	146.5km (91miles)
15	11 September	Cangas de Onís – Gijón	164.2km (102miles)
16	12 September	Oviedo – Alto de l'Angliru	168km (104miles)
17	13 September	Benavente – Salamanca	155.5km (96.6miles)
18	14 September	Béjar – Ciudad Rodrigo	159km (99miles)
19	15 September	Salamanca – Ávila	130km (80miles)
20	16 September	Ávila –	128.2km (79.7miles)
21	17 September	Madrid – Madrid	38km (24miles)
	Total		2904km (1,804miles)

Jersey progress

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points Classification	Mountains Classification
1 (ITT)	Alex Zülle	Alex Zülle	Alex Zülle	Carlos Sastre
2	Oscar Freire		Alex Zülle	Eladio Jiménez
3	Jans Koerts		Jans Koerts
4	Oscar Freire		Oscar Freire
5	Eladio Jiménez
6	Paolo Bossoni
7	Roberto Heras
8	Alessandro Petacchi		Giovanni Lombardi
9 (ITT)	Abraham Olano	Abraham Olano
10	Felix Cardenas	Santos González		Felix Cardenas
11	Roberto Laiseka	Angel Casero		Carlos Sastre
12	Alessandro Petacchi
13	Mariano Piccoli
14	Andrei Zintchenko	Roberto Heras
15	Alvaro Gonzalez de Galdeano
16	Gilberto Simoni
17	Davide Bramati
18	Alexander Vinokourov
19	Mariano Piccoli
20	Roberto Heras		Roberto Heras
21 (ITT)	Santos González		Roberto Heras
Stage	Winner	Roberto Heras	Roberto Heras	Carlos Sastre

Final standings

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Roberto Heras	70:26:14
2		2:33
3		4:55
4		5:52
5		7:38
6		10:16
7		11:17
8		12:16
9		13:10
10		13:14
11		13:16
12		13:44
13		15:41
14		16:37
15		19:24
16		20:28
17		23:43
18		24:51
19		25:19
20		25:36
21		26:25
22		29:01
23		30:03
24		31:47
25		39:32

References

News: Stage 12-September 7: Zaragoza-Zaragoza, 131.5 km: Petacchi's second, Ullrich quits. Cyclingnews. 7 September 2000. 26 July 2012.
News: Clasificaciones Vuelta . . 18 September 2000 . 56 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201118051035/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/PUB/2000/09/18/EMD20000918056MDP.pdf . 18 November 2020 . live.
Web site: Stages: previews, results and reports. Cycling News. 24 July 2018.
Web site: 55ème Vuelta a España 2000. Memoire du cyclisme. https://web.archive.org/web/20050112052703/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tde/tde2000.php. 12 January 2005.