The 2020 Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta Edição Especial was the 82nd edition of the

Volta a Portugal The Volta a Portugal ( en, Tour of Portugal), also known as Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta ( en, Tour of Portugal on Bicycle), is an annual multi-stage road bicycle racing competition held in Portugal. The competition takes place during a two-week s ...

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and was held from 27 September to 5 October 2020. Originally, it was due to take place from 29 July to August 8, but it was postponed due to the

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. It was a 2.1-rated event on the

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and covered over eight stages.

Teams

Five

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s and the nine Portuguese

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teams made up the fourteen teams of seven riders each that participated in the race. 89 of the 98 riders in the race finished. UCI ProTeams * * * * * UCI Continental Teams * * * * * * * * *

Schedule

Stages

Prologue

;27 September 2020 —

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, ( ITT)

Stage 1

;28 September 2020 —

Montalegre Montalegre () is a municipality in northern Portugal, located in the district of Vila Real, along the border with Spain. The population in 2011 was 10,537, in an area of 805.46 km². History Early construction in Montalegre date back 3500� ...

to Viana do Castelo (Alto de Santa Luzia),

Stage 2

;29 September 2020 — Paredes to Alto da Senhora da Graça,

Stage 3

;30 September 2020 —

Felgueiras Felgueiras () is a municipality in Porto District, Portugal. The current mayor is Nuno Fonseca. There are two cities located in the municipality: Felgueiras (city status received on 13 July 1990) and Lixa. The population in 2011 was 58,065, in a ...

Viseu Viseu () is a city and municipality in the Centro Region of Portugal and the capital of the district of the same name, with a population of 100,000 inhabitants, and center of the Viseu Dão Lafões intermunipical community, with 267,633 inhabita ...

Stage 4

;1 October 2020 — Guarda to Covilhã (Torre),

Stage 5

;2 October 2020 —

Oliveira do Hospital Oliveira do Hospital () is a municipality in the district of Coimbra, in the central part of continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 20,855, in an area of 234.52 km². History Inhabited by ancient civilizations, Oliveira do Hospita ...

Águeda Águeda () is a city and a municipality in Portugal. According to the Portuguese 2011 census, the municipality of Águeda had 47,729 inhabitants, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 14,504 (2001 data), while the remainder is distri ...

Stage 6

;3 October 2020 —

Caldas da Rainha Caldas da Rainha () is a medium-sized Portuguese city in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the district of Leiria. The city serves as the seat of the larger municipality of the same name and of the Comunidad ...

Torres Vedras Torres Vedras () is a municipality in the Portuguese district of Lisbon, approximately north of the capital Lisbon in the Oeste region, in the Centro of Portugal. The population was 83,075, in an area of . History In 1148, Afonso I took th ...

Stage 7

;4 October 2020 —

Loures Loures () is a city and a municipality in Portugal which is part of the Lisbon District, District and Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Metropolitan area of Lisbon. It is the fifth most populous municipality in the country, with a total population of 201, ...

Setúbal Setúbal (, , ; cel-x-proto, Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area. In the ti ...

Stage 8

;5 October 2020 —

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to Lisbon, ( ITT)

Classification leadership

* On stage 3,

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, who was second in the points classification, wore the red jersey, because first placed

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wore the yellow jersey as the leader of the general classification.

Final classification standings

General classification

Points classification

Mountains classification

Young rider classification

Portuguese rider classification

Teams classification

References

Sources

External links

* {{Volta a Portugal

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