40th Vuelta Ciclista a la Rioja - 2.4

Spain, April 28 - May 1, 2000

1999 Results    Teams    Past Winners

The Stages

  • Stage 1 - April 28: Autol - Calahorra, 168 km
  • Stage 2 - April 29: Albelda de Iregua-Logroño, 192 km
  • Stage 3 - April 30: Najera-Estacion Valdezcaray, 180 km
  • Stage 4 - May 1: Haro - Logroño 147.6 km

Preview

The 800 kilometre Vuelta a la Rioja is only four days long but has gained an upgrade in category this year to 2.4 by the UCI. Sixteen teams, seven Spanish, will contest the event: Banesto (Jose Maria Jiménez), Vitalicio Seguros (Santi Blanco), Costa de Almeria, Euskaltel, Kelme, ONCE and Relax (all Spanish), Vlaanderen 2002 (Bel), Mercury (USA), ZVVZ-Wüstenrot (Cze), Slovenian Krka-Telekom, Benfica (Por), as well as several amateur teams (Banaka and Tegui) and the Spanish track team.

Starting list:

Vitalicio Seguros                  Kelme-Costa Blanca

1 Santiago Blanco (Spa)            11 Roberto Heras (Spa)
2 Francisco Toma Garcia (Spa)      12 Carlos Albe Contreras (Col)
3 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col)          13 José Joachim Castelblanco (Col)
4 Victor Hugo Peña (Col)           14 Angel Vicioso (Spa)
5 Miguel A. M.Perdiguero (Spa)     15 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa)
6 Juan Carlos Vicario (Spa)        16 Oscar Sevilla (Spa)
7 Luis Oran Castaneda (Col)        17 Antonio Tauler (Spa)
8 Francisco Javier Cerezo (Spa)    18 Francisco Leon (Spa)

ONCE-Deutsche Bank                 Euskaltel-Euskadi

22 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa)         31 Roberto Laiseka (Spa)
23 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa)         32 Txema Del Olmo (Spa)
24 Santos Gonzalez (Spa)           33 Iñigo Chaurreau (Spa)
25 David Cañada (Spa)              34 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa)
26 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa)       35 Iban Mayo (Spa)
27 Marcelino Garcia (Spa)          36 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa)
28 Gaizka Lejarreta (Spa)          37 Ruben Diaz De Ceiro (Spa)
38 Aitor Silloniz (Spa)

Banesto                            Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada

41 José Maria Jimenez (Spa)        51 Nacor Burgos (Spa)
42 Candido Barbosa (Por)           52 Imanol Ayestaran (Spa)
43 José Vicente Garcia (Spa)       53 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa)
44 Cesar Solaun (Spa)              54 Martin Garrido (Arg)
45 Orlando Rodrigues (Por)         55 German Nieto (Spa)
46 Aitor Garmendia (Spa)           56 Pedro Jimenez (Spa)
47 Pablo Lastras (Spa)             57 David Fernandez (Spa)
48 Eladio Jimenez (Spa)            58 Oscar Laguna (Spa)

Costa De Almeria                   Wustenrot-ZVVZ

61 Diego Luis Prior (Spa)          71 Mat Anand (Can)
62 David Garcia (Spa)              72 Rene Andrle (Cze)
63 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa)      73 Daniel Loprais (Cze)
64 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa)       74 Jaroslav Bilek (Cze)
65 Eleuterio Anguita (Spa)         75 Allan Iacuone (Aus)
66 Ricardo Valdes (Spa)            76 Tomas Konecny (Cze)
67 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa)           77 Czeslaw Lukaszewich (Can)
68 Pablo Soler (Spa)               78 Stanislav Tanger (Cze)

Mercury                            Benfica/La Pecol (MX2)

81 Henk Vogels (Aus)               91 Alberto Amaral (Por)
82 Jamie Drew (Aus)                92 Jose Garrido (Spa)
83 Cristopher Horner (USA)         93 Fabio Quercioli (Ita)
84 Kirk Willett (USA)              94 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa)
85 Froid Landis (USA)              95 Joona Laukka (Fin)
86 Scott Moninger (USA)            96 Daniel Bayes (Spa)
87 Jesus Zarate (Mex)              98 Ruben Orbeascoa (Spa)
88 Steve Zampieri (Swi)

Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1)             KRKA-Telecom

101 Daniele Gadenz (Ita)           111 Bostjan Mervar (Slo)
102 Timothy Jones (Zim)            112 Kristjan Mugerli (Slo)
103 Devis Miorin (Ita)             113 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro)
104 Alberto Ongarato (Ita)         114 Martin Derganc (Slo)
105 Raffaele Bosi (Ita)            115 Boris Premuzic (Slo)
106 Sergei Lelekin (Rus)           116 Milan Erzen (Slo)
107 Luis J. Castellano (Spa)
108 Jorge Capitan (Spa)

Vlaanderen 2002                    Spanish National Team

121 Davy Daniels (Bel)             131 Juan Llaneras (Spa)
122 Geoffrey De Meyere (Bel)       132 Diego Rodriguez (Spa)
123 Stijn De Schoenmacker (Bel)    133 Jose Francesco Jarque (Spa)
124 Wesley Huvaere (Bel)           134 Raul Portilla (Spa)
125 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel)          135 Asier Meztu (Spa)
126 Tom Stremersch (Bel)           136 Sergio Escobar (Spa)
127 Wesley Theunis (Bel)           137 Enrique Riera (Spa)
128 Jurgen Van Roosbroeck (Bel)    138 Cristobal Forcadell (Spa)

Pinturas Banaka                    Tegu

141 Manuel Calvente (Spa)          151 Hector Pelegrin-Video Porteros (Spa)
142 Adolfo Garcia (Spa)            152 Daniel Fernandez (Spa)
143 Javier Ramirez (Spa)           153 Jesus Lopez (Spa)
144 Ruben Alvarez (Spa)            154 Santiago Segu (Spa)
145 Ramon Zaragoza (Spa)           155 Jesus M. Grijalba (Spa)
146 Javier Villar (Spa)            156 Iñaki Gonzalez (Spa)
147 Fernando Serrano (Spa)         157 Israel Castañeda (Spa)
148 Roger Lucia (Spa)              158 Gustavo Toledo (Arg)


Past winners

1957 Alberto Sanz
1958 M. Martin Piñera
1960 Angel Rodriguez
1962 Carlos Echevarria
1963 Carlos Echevarria
1964 Anton Barrutia
1965 Mose M. Uribezubia
1966 A. Gomez del Moral
1967 Gabino Egañoraza
1968 Ramon Mendiburu
1969 Luis Ocaña
1970 Carlos Echevarria
1971 Jesus Manzaneque
1972 Jose S. Ponton
1973 Jesus Manzaneque
1974 Jesus Manzaneque
1975 Javier Elorriaga
1977 R. Ladron Guevara
1978 Francisco Galdos
1979 Eulalio Garcia
1980 Jesus Suarez Cueva
1981 Isidro Juarez
1982 Marino Lejarreta
1983 Eduardo Chozas
1984 Iñaki Gaston
1985 Francisco J.Antequera
1986 Jose Luis Laguia
1987 Raimund Dietzen
1988 Federico Etxave
1989 Enrique Aja
1990 Alfonso Gutierrez
1992 Mikel Zarrabeitia
1993 Laurent Jalabert
1994 Jose M. Jimenez
1995 Miguel Indurain
1996 Roberto Sierra
1997 José-Mario Jimenez
1998 Abraham Olano (Spa) Banesto
1999 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros
Past Winners by Mario Stiehl, Berlin