Vuelta a España 2006
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The 61st Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from August 26 to September 17, 2006. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 3,192 km, and was won by Alexander Vinokourov of the Team Astana cycling team.
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[edit] Teams and riders
In addition to the 20 UCI ProTour teams, Relax-GAM have received a wild card.
[edit] List of stages
| Stage | Date | From - To | Distance | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 Aug | Málaga - Málaga | 7.2 km | Team time trial |
| 2 | 27 Aug | Málaga - Córdoba | 167 km | |
| 3 | 28 Aug | Córdoba - Almendralejo | 220 km | |
| 4 | 29 Aug | Almendralejo - Cáceres | 142 km | |
| 5 | 30 Aug | Plasencia - Estación de Esquí La Covatilla (Béjar) | 178 km | Mountain stage* |
| 6 | 31 Aug | Zamora - León | 155 km | |
| 7 | 1 Sept | León - Alto de El Morredero (Ponferrada) | 148 km | Mountain stage* |
| 8 | 2 Sept | Ponferrada - Lugo | 173 km | |
| 9 | 3 Sept | A Fonsagrada - Alto de La Cobertoria | 206 km | Mountain stage* |
| 4 Sept | Rest Day | |||
| 10 | 5 Sept | Avilés - Museo de Altamira (Santillana del Mar) | 190 km | |
| 11 | 6 Sept | Torrelavega (Velódromo Oscar Freire) - Burgos | 165 km | Mountain stage |
| 12 | 7 Sept | Aranda de Duero - Guadalajara | 162 km | |
| 13 | 8 Sept | Guadalajara - Cuenca | 170 km | |
| 14 | 9 Sept | Cuenca - Cuenca | 33 km | Individual time trial |
| 15 | 10 Sept | Motilla del Palancar - Factoría Ford (Almussafes) | 175 km | |
| 11 Sept | Rest Day | |||
| 16 | 12 Sept | Almería - Observatorio Astronómico de Calar Alto | 145 km | Mountain stage* |
| 17 | 13 Sept | Adra - Granada | 167 km | Mountain stage |
| 18 | 14 Sept | Granada - Sierra de la Pandera | 153 km | Mountain stage* |
| 19 | 15 Sept | Jaén - Ciudad Real | 195 km | |
| 20 | 16 Sept | Rivas Futura - Rivas Vaciamadrid | 28 km | Individual time trial |
| 21 | 17 Sept | Madrid - Madrid | 150 km |
- Mountain stages with asterisk end on the top of the climb.
[edit] Stage recaps
[edit] Jersey progress
Jersey wearers when same rider is holding multiple jerseys:
- Lars Ytting Bak wore the points jersey in stage 2
- Paolo Bettini wore the points jersey in stages 4-5
- Janez Brajkovič wore the white combination jersey in stages 6-7
- José Miguel Elías wore the orange mountains jersey in stages 6-7
- Danilo di Luca wore the orange mountains jersey in stages 8-9
- Alejandro Valverde wore the white combination jersey in stages 8-9
- Carlos Sastre wore the white combination jersey in stages 8-16
- Alexander Vinokourov wore the white combination jersey in stage 17
- Andrey Kashechkin wore the white combination jersey in stage 19-21
- When he has been 2nd in combination classification behind GC leader, Alejandro Valverde has worn white jersey of UCI ProTour leader. This happened on stages 8, 9, 19, 20 and 21.
[edit] Current standings
[edit] General classification (final)
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Alexander Vinokourov |
Team Astana | 81h23'07" |
| 2 |  Alejandro Valverde |
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears | 1'12" |
| 3 | Andrei Kashechkin |
Team Astana | 3'12" |
| 4 | Carlos Sastre |
Team CSC | 3'35" |
| 5 | José Ángel Gómez Marchante |
Saunier Duval-Prodir | 6'51" |
| 6 |  Tom Danielson |
Discovery Channel | 8'09" |
| 7 | Samuel Sánchez |
Euskaltel-Euskadi | 8'26" |
| 8 | Manuel Beltrán |
Discovery Channel | 10'36" |
| 9 |  Vladimir Karpets |
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears | 10'47" |
| 10 | Luis Pérez |
Cofidis | 11'32" |
[edit] Points classification
In 2006, the leader of the points classification is awarded a blue with yellow-fish-covered jersey, which is sponsored by Spain's fishing and marine industry known as FROM (or El Fondo de Regulación y Organización del Mercado de Productos de la Pesca y Cultivos Marinos).[1]
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Thor Hushovd |
Crédit Agricole | 199 |
| 2 | Alexander Vinokourov |
Team Astana | 163 |
| 3 | Alejandro Valverde |
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears | 147 |
| 4 | Samuel Sánchez |
Euskaltel-Euskadi | 107 |
| 5 |  Erik Zabel |
Team Milram | 104 |
| 6 |  Stuart O'Grady |
Team CSC | 104 |
| 7 | Francisco José Ventoso |
Saunier Duval-Prodir | 99 |
| 8 | Andrei Kashechkin |
Team Astana | 95 |
| 9 | Carlos Sastre |
Team CSC | 93 |
| 10 | José Ángel Gómez Marchante |
Saunier Duval-Prodir | 68 |
[edit] Mountains classification
In 2006, the leader of the climbers classification (or King of the Mountains) wears the orange jersey sponsored by Ford. In recent years, the KoM wore a red jersey.
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egoi Martínez |
Discovery Channel | 129 |
| 2 |  Pietro Caucchioli |
Crédit Agricole | 117 |
| 3 | Alejandro Valverde |
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears | 98 |
| 4 | Andrey Kashechkin |
Team Astana | 84 |
| 5 | Alexander Vinokourov |
Team Astana | 82 |
| 6 | José Miguel Elías |
Relax-Gam | 70 |
| 7 | Igor Antón |
Euskaltel-Euskadi | 67 |
| 8 | Carlos Sastre |
Team CSC | 63 |
| 9 | José Ángel Gómez Marchante |
Saunier Duval-Prodir | 60 |
| 10 | David Arroyo |
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears | 58 |
[edit] Combination classification
In 2006, the leader of the combinations classification wears the white jersey. In 2005, the driver with the lowest cummulative rank of all classifications wore a gold-green jersey.
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander Vinokourov |
Team Astana | 8 |
| 2 | Alejandro Valverde |
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears | 8 |
| 3 | Andrey Kashechkin |
Team Astana | 15 |
| 4 | Carlos Sastre |
Team CSC | 21 |
| 5 | José Ángel Gómez Marchante |
Saunier Duval-Prodir | 24 |
| 6 | Samuel Sánchez |
Euskaltel-Euskadi | 25 |
| 7 | Tom Danielson |
Discovery Channel | 28 |
| 8 | Egoi Martínez |
Discovery Channel | 31 |
| 9 | Igor Antón |
Euskaltel-Euskadi | 39 |
| 10 | Manuel Beltrán |
Discovery Channel | 43 |
[edit] Teams classification
| Rank | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team |
201h 59'16" |
| 2 | Team Astana |
15'25" |
| 3 | Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears |
25'33" |
| 4 | Euskaltel-Euskadi |
32'13" |
| 5 |  Team CSC |
52'56" |
| 6 | Saunier Duval-Prodir |
1h40'02" |
| 7 | Lampre-Fondital |
1h43'20" |
| 8 |  AG2R Prévoyance |
2h 02'55" |
| 9 | Relax-GAM |
2h 16'26" |
| 10 | Cofidis |
2h 20'33" |
[edit] Withdrawals
| Stage | Rider | Team | Reason | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNS | 5 | André Korff |
T-Mobile Team | Sick |
| DNF | 5 |  Charlie Wegelius |
Liquigas | Crashed |
| DNF | 5 | Miguel Angel Perdiguero |
Phonak Hearing Systems | Unknown |
| DSQ | 5 | Robbie McEwen |
Davitamon-Lotto | Finished outside time limit |
| DSQ | 5 |  Christophe Detilloux |
Française des Jeux | Finished outside time limit |
| DSQ | 5 | Freddy Bichot |
Française des Jeux | Finished outside time limit |
| DNF | 6 |  Volodymyr Dyudya |
Team Milram | Unknown |
| DNF | 7 |  Steve Zampieri |
Phonak Hearing Systems | Unknown |
| DNF | 8 | Josep Jufre |
Davitamon-Lotto | Crashed |
| DNF | 8 | Marco Marzano |
Lampre-Fondital | Unknown |
| DNF | 9 | Mathieu Claude |
Bouygues Télécom | Unknown |
| DNF | 9 | Wim de Vocht |
Davitamon-Lotto | Unknown |
| DNF | 9 | Iñaki Isasi |
Euskaltel-Euskadi | Unknown |
| DNF | 9 | Nicolas Jalabert |
Phonak Hearing Systems | Unknown |
| DNF | 9 | Juan José Cobo |
Saunier Duval-Prodir | Unknown |
| DNF | 9 | André Greipel |
T-Mobile Team | Unknown |
| DNF | 9 |  Bernhard Kohl |
T-Mobile Team | Jan Ullrich's wedding |
| DNF | 9 | Thomas Ziegler |
T-Mobile Team | Unknown |
| DNS | 10 | Marcel Strauss |
Gerolsteiner | Stomach problems |
| DNF | 10 | Rony Martias |
Bouygues Télécom | Unknown |
| DNF | 10 | Anthony Charteau |
Crédit Agricole | Unknown |
| DNS | 11 | Denis Menchov |
Rabobank | Exhaustion |
| DNF | 11 | Christophe Kern |
Bouygues Télécom | Unknown |
| DNF | 11 | Jérôme Pineau |
Bouygues Télécom | Unknown |
| DNF | 11 | Hervé Duclos-Lassalle |
Cofidis | Unknown |
| DNF | 11 | Luis León Sánchez |
Team Astana | Unknown |
| DNF | 12 | Markus Fothen |
Team Gerolsteiner | Unknown |
| DNF | 12 | Sven Montgomery |
Team Gerolsteiner | Unknown |
| DNF | 12 | Andrea Moletta |
Team Gerolsteiner | Unknown |
| DNF | 12 | Ángel Gomez |
Saunier Duval-Prodir | Unknown |
| DNS | 13 | Lorenzo Bernucci |
T-Mobile Team | Unknown |
| DNS | 15 | Ruggero Marzoli |
Lampre-Fondital | Unknown |
| DNS | 15 | Davide Rebellin |
Team Gerolsteiner | Unknown |
| DNS | 16 | Fabian Cancellara |
Team CSC | Concentrating on World Championships |
| DNS | 16 | Cyril Dessel |
AG2R Prévoyance | Concentrating on World Championships |
| DNS | 16 |  Michael Boogerd |
Rabobank | Concentrating on World Championships |
| DNS | 16 | Alessandro Petacchi |
Team Milram | Fractured hand |
| DNS | 16 | Luca Paolini |
Liquigas | Unknown |
| DNS | 16 | Rene Haselbacher |
Team Gerolsteiner | Unknown |
| DNS | 16 | Xavier Florencio |
Bouygues Télécom | Unknown |
| DNS | 16 | Bernhard Eisel |
Francaise des Jeux | Unknown |
| DNF | 16 | Jesús Hernández |
Relax-GAM | Crashed |
| DNF | 16 | Nacor Burgos |
Relax-GAM | Crashed |
| DNF | 16 | Danilo Napolitano |
Lampre-Fondital | Unknown |
| DNF | 16 | Mark Renshaw |
Crédit Agricole | Unknown |
| DNF | 16 | Anthony Geslin |
Bouygues Télécom | Unknown |
| DSQ | 16 | Frédéric Finot |
Francaise des Jeux | Finished outside time limit |
| DNF | 17 | Michael Rasmussen |
Rabobank | Unknown |
| DNF | 17 | Bart Dockx |
Davitamon-Lotto | Unknown |
| DNF | 17 |  Ryder Hesjedal |
Phonak Hearing Systems | Unknown |
| DNF | 17 | Matteo Tosatto |
Quick Step-Innergetic | Unknown |
| DNS | 18 | Danilo Di Luca |
Liquigas | Concentrating on World Championships |
| DNS | 18 | Paolo Bettini |
Quick Step-Innergetic | Concentrating on World Championships |
| DNF | 18 | Daniel Becke |
Team Milram | Unknown |
| DNS | 20 | Matteo Carrara |
Lampre-Fondital | Unknown |
- 134 of 189 starters finished the race.
- 2 teams finished with all nine riders: Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team.
