The 44th Edition ''Vuelta a España'' (Tour of
Spain
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), a long-distance
bicycle stage race and one of the 3
grand tours
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, was held from April 24 to May 15, 1989. It consisted of 22 stages covering a total of ,
and was won by
Pedro Delgado of the
Reynolds cycling team
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. The route was released on January 21, 1989.
had won the previous
Tour de France
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and was seen as the favourite for the race. Delgado came with a Reynolds team that contained
Miguel Indurain
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, who had just won
Paris–Nice
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and was also seen as a potential favourite. The first few days of the race saw the leaders jersey change shoulders from Gino de Bakker, Benny van Brabant and Roland LeClercq. The Colombian
Omar Hernández
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took the lead on the sixth stage. On the 12th stage to Cerler, Delgado battled with four Colombians and won the stage. He won the stage 15 time trial, where Colombian Martin Farfan took the leader's jersey. On the following stage to Santander, Delgado took the jersey. However Delgado's team had a bad day several stages later, when Indurain fell and broke his wrist; Delgado had difficulty keeping the jersey from Fabio Parra. Parra was only two seconds behind Delgado on the general classification at one stage. The final time trial was the last chance for Parra to try to take the jersey from Delgado, but Delgado won and increased his lead to win his third grand tour.
Route
Results
Final General Classification
References
External links
La Vuelta (Official site in Spanish, English, and French)
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