Salvador Cardona Balbastre (12 January 1901 - 15 January 1985) was a Spanish professional

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from

Alfauir Alfauir (; es, Alfahuir) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain. Main sights *Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba, constructed between the 14th and 18th centuries. *Church of the Mare de Déu del Roser ...

. In

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

he became the first Spanish

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to win a stage in

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

Major results

;1929 :4th, Overall,

::1st, Stage 9 :1st, Overall,

Vuelta a Levante The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; en, Tour of the Valencian Community or Tour of Valencia) is a road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calend ...

;1931 :1st, Overall,

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; en, Tour of Catalonia, es, Vuelta a Cataluña, link=no) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of th ...

;1933 :1st,

Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia – Clásica de Ordizia is a Spanish professional cycle road race held in Ordizia, Basque Country. The first edition was held in 1922. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour ...

:1st, Overall,

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;1935 : National Road Cycling Championship :1st, Stage 6 & 7,

:1st, Stage 9,

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the r ...

:1st, Overall,

Vuelta a Mallorca The Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca ( en, Tour of Majorca, ca, Challenge Volta Ciclista a Mallorca) is a series of four (five until 2012) professional one day road bicycle races held on the Spanish island of Mallorca in late January or earl ...

;1936 :1st, Stage 9,

External links

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Results in Tour de France for Salvador CARDONA BALBASTRE
Spanish male cyclists 1901 births 1985 deaths Spanish Tour de France stage winners Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners People from Safor Sportspeople from the Province of Valencia Cyclists from the Valencian Community {{Spain-cycling-bio-stub