Vuelta Ciclista a España

The ***' (also ***', or simply **Vuelta**) is a long-distance bicycle race. The first race was in 1935. The Tour de France and Giro d'Italia were both very successful, and both run by newspaper companies. A newspaper called __ in Spain decided to start a similar race in Spain. It is now one of the three "Grand Tours" of Europe and, after the  and the , is the third most important road cycling stage race in the world.

The leader of the race wears the red jersey. This is the same as the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. The leader of the combination classification wears a white jersey. The leader of the mountain climbers' competition wears a white jersey with blue polka-dots. The leader of the sprinters' competition wears a green jersey.

The race was run in the spring until 1995. Since 1995 it has been run in September.

## Winners of the Vuelta a España

|Vuelta|Year|Winner|Nationality|Team|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|68|2013|Chris Horner||RadioShack-Leopard|
|67|2012|Alberto Contador||Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank|
|66|2011|Juan José Cobo|||
|65|2010|Vincenzo Nibali|||
|64|2009|Alejandro Valverde|||
|63|2008|Alberto Contador|||
|62|2007|Denis Menchov (2)||Rabobank|
|61|2006|Alexandre Vinokourov||Astana|
|60|2005|Denis Menchov||Rabobank|
|59|2004|Roberto Heras||Liberty Seguros|
|58|2003|U.S. Postal|||
|57|2002|Aitor González|Kelme||
|56|2001|Ángel Casero|Festina||
|55|2000|Roberto Heras|Kelme||
|54|1999|Jan Ullrich||Team Telekom|
|53|1998|Abraham Olano||Team Banesto|
|52|1997|Alex Zülle|rowspan=2|rowspan=2|Team ONCE|
|51|1996||||
|50|1995|Laurent Jalabert||Team ONCE|
|49|1994|Tony Rominger||Mapei-Clas|
|48|1993|Clas-Cajastur|||
|47|1992||||
|46|1991|Melchor Mauri||Team ONCE|
|45|1990|Marco Giovannetti||Seur|
|44|1989|Pedro Delgado||Reynolds-Banesto|
|43|1988|Seán Kelly||Kas-Mavic|
|42|1987|Luis Herrera||Café de Colombia|
|41|1986|Álvaro Pino||Zor - BH|
|40|1985|Pedro Delgado|Orbea-MG||
|39|1984|Éric Caritoux||Skil-Reydel-SEM-Mavic|
|38|1983|Bernard Hinault|Renault-Elf-Gitane||
|37|1982|Marino Lejarreta||Teka|
|36|1981|Giovanni Battaglin||Inoxpran|
|35|1980|Faustino Ruperez||Zor-Vereco|
|34|1979|Joop Zoetemelk||Miko-Mercier-Vivagel|
|33|1978|Bernard Hinault||Renault-Gitane-Campagnolo|
|32|1977|Freddy Maertens||Flandria-Velda-Latina|
|31|1976|José Pesarrodona|rowspan=3|Kas|
|30|1975|Augustin Tamames|Super Ser||
|29|1974|José Manuel Fuente|Kas-Kaskol||
|28|1973|Eddy Merckx||Molteni|
|27|1972|José Manuel Fuente||Kas-Kaskol|
|26|1971|Ferdinand Bracke||Peugeot-BP-Michelin|
|25|1970|Luis Ocaña||Bic|
|24|1969|Roger Pingeon||Peugeot-BP-Michelin|
|23|1968|Felice Gimondi||Salvarani|
|22|1967|Jan Janssen||Pelforth-Sauvage-Lejeune|
|21|1966|Francisco Gabica||Kas-Kaskol|
|20|1965|Rolf Wolfshohl||Mercier-BP-Hutchinson|
|19|1964|Raymond Poulidor|||
|18|1963|Jacques Anquetil|St.Raphael-Gitane||
|17|1962|Rudi Altig||St.Raphael-Helyett|
|16|1961|Angelino Soler||Faema|
|15|1960|Franz De Mulder||Groene Leeuw|
|14|1959|Antonio Suarez||Licor 43|
|13|1958|Jean Stablinski||Essor-Leroux|
|12|1957|Jesus Loroño||Gamma|
|11|1956|Angelo Conterno||Bianchi-Pirelli|
|10|1955|Jean Dotto||Vampire-d'Alessandro|
|colspan=5 align=center|1951-1954 No competition held||||
|9|1950|Emilio Rodriguez||Sangalhos|
|0|1949|No competition held|||
|8|1948|Bernardo Ruiz||Peugeot-Dunlop|
|7|1947|Edouard Van Dyck||Alycon-Dunlop|
|6|1946|Dalmacio Langarica|rowspan=2|Galindo-Cicles Tabay|
|5|1945|Delio Rodriguez|||
|colspan=5 align=center|1943 and 1944 No competition held (World War II)||||
|4|1942|Julian Berrendero||Informaciones|
|3|1941||||
|colspan=5 align=center|1937-1940 No competition held (Spanish Civil War)||||
|2|1936|Gustaaf Deloor|||
|1|1935||||