Volta ao Algarve (2.1)

Winners, podium, distance, average speed

The Volta ao Algarve, held in early February, is one of the European calender's first stage races. The Algarve region is in the far south of Portugal. The race existed for years before the records shown below as an amateur and as an open event.

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Distance	Average Speed km/hr
1997	Candido Barboso	Cassio Freitas	Luis Miguel Sarreira
1998	Tomas Konecny	Grischa Niermann	José Luis Rebollo
1999	Melchior Mauri 17hr 37min 18sec	Candido Barbosa @ 9sec	David Plaza @ 40sec	707.3 km	40.138
2000	Alex Zülle 17hr 19min 13sec	José Azevedo @ 7sec	Andrei Zintchenko @ 14sec	692.5 km	39.982
2001	Andrea Ferrigato 20hr 52min 21sec	José Azevedo @ 7sec	Melchior Mauri @ 21sec	855.2 km	40.972
2002	Candido Barbosa 20hr 37min 8sec	Alex Zülle @ 6sec	George Hincapie @ 13sec	858 km	41.612
2003	Claus Michael Møller 17hr 19min 6sec	Victor Hugo Peña @ 15sec	Pedro Cardoso @ 34sec	675.9 km	39.028
2004	Floyd Landis 18hr 3min 4sec	Victor Hugo Peña @ 26sec	Candido Barbosa @ 45sec	709.5 km	39.305
2005	Hugo Sabido 21hr 44min 57sec	Stuart O'Grady @ 10sec	José Luis Rubiera @ 20sec	863 km	39.679
2006	Joao Cabriera 22hr 42min	Gert Steegmans @ 10sec	Robert Gesink @ 11sec	889 km	39.162
2007	Alessandro Petacchi 23hr 33min 2sec	René Haselbacher @ 20sec	Tomas Vaitkus @ 22sec	949.4 km	40.313
2008	Stijn Devolder 19hr 42min 59sec	Sylvain Chavanel @ 22sec	Tomas Vaitkus @ 32sec	784.7 km	39.799
2009	Alberto Contador 19hr 4min 22sec	Sylvain Chavanel @ 1min 6sec	Ruben Plaza @ 1min 7sec	733.6 km	38.463
2010	Alberto Contador 19hr 57min 48sec	Luis Leon Sanchez @ 30sec	Tiago Machado @ 32sec	739.70 km	37.053
2011	Tony Martin 18hr 48min 45sec	Tejay Van Garderen @ 32sec	Lieuwe Westra @ 39sec	730.70 km	38.841

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