Vuelta a Castilla y León (2.1)

Winners, podium, distance, average speed

The Vuelta a Castilla y León started as a nearly season-long series of Spanish bicycle races.

Castilla y León is a landlocked Spanish "autonomous community" in northwest Spain, bordering on Portugal.

When pro racing underwent Pro-Tour reorganization in 2005, the Vuelta a Castilla y León occured at the end of April, conflicting with both the Pro-Tour ranked Tour of Romandie and the just-to-begin Giro d'Italia. Only lower ranked Professional Continental teams who were obligated to race Pro Tour races competed in the Spanish race. The race also has had financial problems and difficulty attracting television coverage. Now (2009) the race is run in late March and attracts a stellar field.

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Distance	Average Speed km/hr
1985	Jesus Blanco Villar	Federico Echave	Miguel Angel Iglesias
1986	Alfonso Gutierrez	Carlos Hernandez	Manuel Jorge Dominguez
1987	Alfonso Gutierrez	Manuel Jorge Dominguez	Antonio Esparza
1988	Raimund Dietzen	Federico Echave	Angel Arroyo
1989	Federico Echave	Peter Hilse	Luc Suykerbuyk
1990	Race not held
1991	José Rodriguez Garcia	Juan Carlos González	Alfonso Gutierrez
1992	Asiate Saitov	Malcom Elliott	Angel Edo
1993	Miguel Induráin	Abraham Olano	Antonio Martin Velasco
1994	Melchior Mauri	Alvaro González de Galdeano	Nico Edmonds
1995	Santiago Blanco	Aitor Garmendia	Claus Michael Møller
1996	Andrea Peron 22hr 57min 10sec	Udo Bölts @ s.t.	Iñigo Cuesta @ 7sec	892.5 km	38.884
1997	Angel Casero 18hr 48min 27sec	Laurent Jalabert @ 1min 42sec	Udo Bölts @ 1min 55sec	720 km	38.283
1998	Aitor Garmendia 15hr 40min 58sec	Angel Luis Casero @ 1min 6sec	Jan Ullrich @ s.t.	617.3 km	39.361
1999	Leonardo Piepoli 21hr 43min 28sec	Alberto Elli @ 1min 25sec	Giuseppe Guerini @ 2min 34sec	861.4 km	39.651
2000	Francisco Mancebo 17hr 27min 5sec	Aitor Osa @ 14sec	Dave Bruylandts @ 47sec	679.5 km	38.937
2001	Marcos Serrano 18hr 13min 11sec	Levi Leipheimer @ 1min 4sec	Manuel Beltran @ 1min 10sec	709.7 km	38.952
2002	Juan Miguel Mercado 20hr 37min 33sec	Joan Horrach @ 26sec	Leonardo Piepoli @ 36sec	814.3 km	39.480
2003	Francisco Manceco 17hr 22min 17sec	Denis Menchov @ s.t.	Alex Zülle @ 27sec	707.8 km	40.745
2004	Koldo Gil 16hr 3min 5saec	David Navas @ 19sec	José Ivan Gutierrez @ 22sec	625.9 km	38.994
2005	Carlos Garcia Quesada 17hr 3min 31sec	Francisco Perez @ 50sec	David Blanco @ 1min 8sec	681.8 km	39.968
2006	Alexandre Vinokourov 16hr 25min 12sec	Luis Leon Sanchez @ 21sec	José Luis Rubiera @ 26sec	643.2 km	38.778
2007	Alberto Contador 15hr 4min 15sec	Koldo Gil @ 36sec	Juan José Cobo @ 46sec	631 km	41.869
2008	Alberto Contador 15hr 57min 37sec	Juan Mauricio Soler @ 39sec	Thomas Dekker @ 46sec	630.1 km	39.479
2009	Levi Leipheimer 15hr 33min 26sec	Alberto Contador @ 16sec	David Zabriskie @ 22sec	659.3 km	42.379
2010	Alberto Contador 16hr 56min 1sec	Igor Anton @ 41sec	Ezequiel Mosquera @ 1min 20sec	700.5 km	41.367
2011	Xavier Tondo 17hr 1min 40sec	Bauke Mollema @ 9sec	Igor Anton @ 17sec	728.5 km	42.783

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