45th Vuelta Asturias - 2.3Spain, May 15-20, 20012000 Results Stage list Preview Start list Past winners The Stages
PreviewThe 45th edition of the Vuelta Asturias starts on Tuesday, May 15 with a 154 kilometre stage from Oviedo to Aviles. The key feature of this 2.3 category race is the hilly terrain, and several stages are well suited to climbers. Stage 4 finishes atop the Alto del Viso, a second category climb; while stage 5 takes the riders 170 km from Pravia to El Acebo, a special category mountain. The race finishes with a 5.8 kilometre time trial from Oviedo up to the Alto del Naranco. 160 cyclists form 19 teams will take the start. Prominent riders include Joseba Beloki and Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (ONCE), Jose Maria Jiminez (iBanesto.com), Igor Astarloa (Mercatone Uno) and Fernando Escartín (Coast). Start ListONCE-Wurth Euskaltel-Euskadi
1 Joseba Beloki (Spa) 11 Roberto Laiseka (Spa)
2 Igor Gonzalez (Spa) 12 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa)
3 Rafael Diaz (Spa) 13 Iker Flores (Spa)
4 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) 14 Bingen Fernandez (Spa)
5 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) 15 Ramon Gonzalez (Spa)
6 Mikel Pradera (Spa) 16 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa)
7 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) 17 Mikel Artetxe (Spa)
8 Carlos Sastre (Spa) 18 Samuel Sanchez (Spa)
Milanesa-MSS Kelme-Costa Blanca
21 Fabian Jeker (Swi) 31 Oscar Sevilla (Spa)
22 Angel Edo (Spa) 32 Santiago Botero (Col)
23 Claus Michael Moller (Den) 33 Felix Rafael Cardenas (Col)
24 Melchior Mauri (Spa) 35 Jose Angel Vidal (Spa)
25 Pedro Cardoso (Por) 36 Jose Enriqu Gutierrez (Spa)
26 Joan Horrach (Spa) 37 Antonio Tauler (Spa)
27 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) 38 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa)
28 Gonzalo Amorim (Por)
iBanesto.com La Pecol
41 Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) 51 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus)
42 Santiago Blanco (Spa) 52 Bruno Castanheira (Por)
43 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) 53 Jose Rosa (Por)
44 Jose V. Garcia Acosta (Spa) 54 Philipe Fernandes (Fra)
45 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) 55 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa)
46 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) 56 Segismund De La Torre (Spa)
47 Xabier Zandio (Spa) 57 Pedro Lopes (Por)
48 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) 58 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu)
Carvalhelhos-Boavista Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada
61 Josep Jufre (Spa) 71 Benjamin Noval (Spa)
62 David Bernabeu (Spa) 72 Martin Garrido (Arg)
63 Delmino Pereira (Por) 73 Sergio Perez (Spa)
64 Ramon Medina (Spa) 74 German Nieto (Spa)
65 Adrian Palomares (Spa) 75 Nacor Burgos (Spa)
66 Pedro Soeiro (Por) 76 Dario Munoz (Col)
67 Atanas Petrov (Bul) 77 David Vazquez (Spa)
68 Carlos Teixeira (Por) 78 Jose Manuel Vazquez (Spa)
Mobilvetta Design Jazztel-Costa Almeria
81 Giuseppe Bracci (Ita) 91 Ricardo Valdez (Spa)
82 Daniele Castellan (Ita) 92 Fabio Roscioli (Ita)
83 Milan Kadlec (Cze) 93 Eleuterio Anguita (Spa)
84 Alessandro Brendolin (Ita) 94 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa)
85 Guido Trombetta (Ita) 95 Carlos Torrent (Spa)
86 Graziano Recinella (Ita) 96 Pedro Diaz Lobato (Spa)
87 Massimo Girardello (Ita) 97 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa)
88 Raffaele Bosi (Ita) 98 Aitor Kintana (Spa)
Team Coast Mercatone Uno-Stream TV
101 Fernando Escartin (Spa) 111 Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita)
102 Alex Zuelle (Swi) 112 Igor Astarloa (Spa)
103 Anton Chantyr (Rus) 113 Massimo Cigana (Ita)
104 Rolf Huser (Swi) 114 Giuseppe Di Fresco (Ita)
105 Thorsten Rund (Ger) 115 Roberto Savoldi (Ita)
106 Raphael Schweda (Ger) 116 Massimo Podenzana (Ita)
117 Cristian Moreni (Ita)
118 Gian Mario Ortenzi (Ita)
Cofidis Cantina Tollo Acqua & Sapone
121 Sergey Belousov (Kaz) 131 Federico Colonna (Ita)
123 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) 132 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr)
124 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz) 133 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita)
126 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) 134 Emanuele Negrini (Ita)
127 Juris Silovs (Lat) 135 Federico Giabbecucci (Ita)
128 Jean-Michel Tessier (Fra) 136 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita)
137 Simone Masciarelli (Ita)
138 Miguel A. M. Perdiguero (Spa)
Collstrop-Palmans Nurnberger
141 Vincent Cali (Fra) 151 Dirk Baldinger (Ger)
142 Max Becker (Lux) 152 Jens Lehmann (Ger)
143 Thierry De Groote (Bel) 153 Jorg Forster (Ger)
144 Kristof Trouve (Bel) 154 Harald Morscher (Aut)
145 Oleg Pankov (Ukr) 155 Christian Werner (Ger)
146 Karl Pauwels (Bel) 156 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut)
147 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) 157 Thorsten Wilhelms (Ger)
148 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel)
Geroslteiner Atlas-Lukullus
161 Thomas Muhlbacher (Aut) 171 Igor Bonciucov (Mda)
162 Steffen Weigold (Ger) 172 Artur Krasinski (Pol)
163 Michael Rich (Ger) 173 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol)
164 Peter Wrolich (Aut) 174 Tomasz Lisowicz (Pol)
165 Andreas Sauerborn (Ger) 175 Przemysla Mikolajczyk (Pol)
166 Georg Totschnig (Aut) 176 Pawel Riechlicki (Pol)
177 Jaroslaw Ryszewski (Pol)
De Nardi Pasa Montegrappa Itera-Lokosphinx
181 Eddy Forner (Ita) 191 Alexei Markov (Rus)
182 Stefano Panetta (Ita) 192 Serguei Klimov (Rus)
183 Vitali Kokorine (Rus) 194 Denis Smyslov (Rus)
184 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) 196 Pavel Brutt (Rus)
185 Jan Bratokowski (Ger) 197 Konstantin Sivtsov (Blr)
186 Alain Turicchia (Ita) 198 Almaz Bayguzin (Rus)
187 Remmert Wielinga (Ned)
188 Dmitri Sedoune (Rus)
Past winners2000 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Festina 1999 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 1998 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE 1997 Manuel Fernandez-Gines (Spa) 1996 Miguel Indurain (Spa) 1995 Beat Zberg (Swi) 1994 Abraham Olano (Spa) 1993 Erik Breukink (Ned) 1992 Alex Zülle (Swi) 1991 Pjotr Ugrumow (Let) 1990 Raul Alcala (Mex) 1989 Gert-Jan Theunisse (Ned) 1988 Rolf Gölz (Ger) 1987 Inaki Gaston (Spa) 1986 J. Rodriguez Magro (Spa) 1985 Jesus Blanco-Villar (Spa) 1984 Faustino Ruperez (Spa) 1983 Pedro Munoz (Spa) 1982 Jesus Ibanez (Spa) 1981 Angel Arroyo (Spa) 1980 Faustino Ruperez (Spa) 1979 A. Fernandez-Blanco (Spa) 1978 E. Martinez-Heredia (Spa) 1977 Vicente Lopez-Carril (Spa) 1976 Santiago Lazcano (Spa) 1975 Miguel-Maria Lasa (Spa) 1974 Sentisteban (Spa) 1973 Jesus Manzaneque (Spa) 1972 Augustine Tamames (Spa) 1971 Edouardo Castello (Spa) 1970 Antonio Martos (Spa) 1969 Andres Oliva (Spa) 1968 Jesus Manzaneque (Spa) 1957 Federico Bahamontes (Spa) 1956 Hernan (Spa) 1955 Federico Bahamontes (Spa) 1954 Bernardo Ruiz (Spa) 1953 Antonio Gelabert (Spa) 1950 Miguel Gual (Spa) 1947 Emilio Rodriguez (Spa) 1928 Riccardo Mucio (Spa) 1927 Miguel Mucio (Spa) 1926 Riccardo Montero (Spa) 1925 Barruetabena (Spa) Past Winners courtesy of Mario Stiehl, Berlin |