1984 Vuelta a España

1984 Vuelta a España 17 April – 6 May 19 + Prologue, including 1 split stage 3,593 km 90h 08' 03" Éric Caritoux FRA Skil–Sem–Mavic–Reydel gold Alberto Fernández Blanco ESP Zor–Gemeaz Raimund Dietzen GER Teka Guido Van Calster BEL Del Tongo light blue Felipe Yáñez ESP Orbea green Edgar Corredor COL Teka Jozef Lieckens BEL Safir Teka 1983 1985 The 39th Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 Grand Tours, was held from 17 April to 6 May 1984. It consisted of 19 stages covering a total of 3,593 km, and was won by Éric Caritoux of the Skil–Sem cycling team. It was one of the most surprising grand tour victories in cycling history as Caritoux, a virtual unknown who was part of a lineup that was thrown together at the last minute, won by the closest margin in history. Caritoux, a second year professional, had shown his climbing talent earlier that year by winning the stage up the Mont-Ventoux of the 1984 Paris–Nice but he did not enter the 1984 Vuelta a España thinking of the overall classification. On stage 8 Roger De Vlaeminck, one of the oldest riders professionally, won the first Vuelta stage of his career which gave him a stage win in all three grand tours. Fourteen years earlier he won his first grand tour stage during the 1970 Tour de France and had won 22 Giro stages in between.Roger De Vlaemick procyclingstats.com 8 October 2021 https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/roger-de-vlaeminck/1984 live https://web.archive.org/web/20201111011030/https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/roger-de-vlaeminck/1984 2020-11-11 On the 12th stage to Lagos de Covadonga an area in Asturias which includes one of the most important climbs of the Vuelta, Caritoux finished second behind the German Raimund Dietzen. Caritoux took the leader's jersey from Pedro Delgado. Alberto Fernández was 32 seconds behind Caritoux in the general classification at that stage. Fernández had been third the year previously in the Vuelta a España and in the Giro d'Italia. On the stage 14 mountain time trial, Caritoux lost five seconds. Caritoux lost further time in the final individual time trial but still managed to finish the race with a slender lead of six seconds over Fernández, the smallest margin in the history of the Vuelta a España, and also the smallest ever seen in a Grand Tour. Fernández died later on in 1984.http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-020.pdf Una "Vuelta" a la Española es 17 April 1984 20 El Mundo Deportivo 27 May 2012 PDF A "Return" to the Spanish https://web.archive.org/web/20150419142542/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-020.pdf 19 April 2015 livehttp://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-021.pdf Una "Vuelta" a la Española es 17 April 1984 21 El Mundo Deportivo 27 May 2012 PDF A "Return" to the Spanish https://web.archive.org/web/20150419142752/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-021.pdf 19 April 2015 livehttp://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-022.pdf Una "Vuelta" a la Española es 17 April 1984 22 El Mundo Deportivo 27 May 2012 PDF A "Return" to the Spanish https://web.archive.org/web/20150419151247/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-022.pdf 19 April 2015 live Teams Thirteen teams were invited by the race organizers to participate in the 1984 edition of the Vuelta a España, six of which were based outside of Spain.http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/15/MD19840415-036.pdf Los 130 Encartados en la Ronda Española es 15 April 1984 36 El Mundo Deportivo 27 May 2012 PDF A "Return" to the Spanish https://web.archive.org/web/20150419150559/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/15/MD19840415-036.pdf 19 April 2015 live Each team sent a squad of ten riders, meaning that the race started with a peloton of 130 cyclists. From the riders that began the race, 97 made it to the finish in Madrid.http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/05/07/MD19840507-041.pdf Clasificaciones oficiales es 7 May 1984 41 El Mundo Deportivo 27 May 2012 PDF Official classifications https://web.archive.org/web/20150419142237/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/05/07/MD19840507-041.pdf 19 April 2015 live The teams entering the race were: Alfa Lum Hueso Del Tongo DormilónTuc Gis Kelme Orbea Reynolds Safir Skil Teka Tönissteiner Zor Route and stages Covering a total of 3489 km on, it included three individual time trials, and thirteen stages with categorized climbs that awarded mountains classification points.http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-021.pdf Etapas y kilometraje es 17 April 1984 21 El Mundo Deportivo 27 May 2012 PDF Stages and kilometers https://web.archive.org/web/20150419142752/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-021.pdf 19 April 2015 livehttp://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-021.pdf La Montaña es 17 April 1984 21 El Mundo Deportivo 27 May 2012 PDF The Mountains https://web.archive.org/web/20150419142752/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1984/04/17/MD19840417-021.pdf 19 April 2015 live Two of these thirteen stages had summit finishes: stage 7, to Rassos de Peguera; and stage 12, to Lagos de Enol. Another stage with a mountain-top finish was stage 14, which consisted of a climbing time trial to Monte Narasco. The organizers chose to include no rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 91 km 0 on longer and contained the same amount of time trials, stages, and rest days. + Stage characteristics and winnersStageDateCourseDistanceTypeWinnerP17 AprilJerez de la Frontera6.6 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Individual time trialFrancesco Moser ITA118 AprilJerez de la Frontera to Málaga 272 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Noël Dejonckheere BEL219 AprilMálaga to Almería 202 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stageGuido Van Calster BEL320 AprilMojácar to Elche 204 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stageJozef Lieckens BEL421 AprilElche to Valencia 197 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Noël Dejonckheere BEL522 AprilValencia to Salou 245 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stageJozef Lieckens BEL623 AprilSalou to Sant Quirze del Vallès 113 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Michel Pollentier BEL724 AprilSant Quirze del Vallès to Rasos de Peguera184 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Éric Caritoux FRA825 AprilCardona to Zaragoza 269 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Roger De Vlaeminck BEL926 AprilZaragoza to Soria 159 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Orlando Maini ITA1027 AprilSoria to Burgos 148 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stagePalmiro Masciarelli ITA1128 AprilBurgos to Santander 182 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Francesco Moser ITA1229 AprilSantander to Lagos de Covadonga 199 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Raimund Dietzen FRG1330 AprilCangas de Onís to Oviedo 170 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Guido Van Calster BEL141 MayLugones to Monte Naranco 12 km 0 on22px|link=|alt=Individual time trialJulián Gorospe ESP152 MayOviedo to León 121 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Antonio Coll ESP163 MayLeón to Valladolid 138 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stageDaniël Rossel BEL174 MayValladolid to Segovia 258 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)José Recio ESP18a5 MaySegovia to Torrejón de Ardoz 145 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s)Jesus Suárez Cuevas ESP18bTorrejón de Ardoz 33 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Individual time trialJulián Gorospe ESP196 MayTorrejón de Ardoz to Madrid 139 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stageNoël Dejonckheere BEL Total 3593 km 0 on Classification leadership Three different jerseys were worn during the 1984 Vuelta a España. The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a golden jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Vuelta. For the points classification, which awarded a light blue jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The leader of the mountains classification wore a green jersey. Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time. The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run. +Classification leadership by stage Stage Winner General classification25px Points classification25px Mountains classification25px Team classification P Francesco Moser Francesco Moser Francesco Moser not awarded Reynolds 1 Noël Dejonckheere Noël Dejonckheere Angel Camarillo 2 Guido Van Calster Guido Van Calster 3 Jozef Lieckens 4 Noël Dejonckheere Noël Dejonckheere Felipe Yáñez 5 Jozef Lieckens Teka 6 Michel Pollentier 7 Éric Caritoux Pedro Delgado 8 Roger De Vlaeminck 9Orlando Maini 10Palmiro Masciarelli 11Francesco Moser Guido Van Calster 12Raimund Dietzen Éric Caritoux 13Guido Van Calster 14 Julián Gorospe 15 Antonio Coll 16 Daniel Rossel 17José Recio 18aJesús Suárez Cueva 18bJulián Gorospe 19Noël Dejonckheere Final Éric Caritoux Guido Van Calster Felipe Yáñez Teka Final standings Legend   20px|alt=A gold jersey   Denotes the winner of the General classification   20px|alt=A green jersey   Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification  20px|alt=A light blue jersey   Denotes the winner of the Points classification General classification + Final general classification (1–10)RankNameTeamTime 1 Éric Caritoux FRA 20px|alt=Gold jersey Skil 90h 08' 03" 2 Alberto Fernández Blanco ESP Zor + 6" 3 Raimund Dietzen GER Teka + 1' 33" 4 Pedro Delgado ESP Reynolds + 1' 43" 5 Edgar Corredor COL Teka + 3' 40" 6 Julián Gorospe ESP Reynolds + 4' 41" 7 José Patrocinio Jiménez COL Teka + 7' 10" 8 Vicente Belda ESP Kelme + 7' 14" 9 José Recio ESP Kelme + 7' 21" 10 Francesco Moser ITA Tuc Gis + 8' 41" Points classification +Final points classification (1-10)RiderTeamPoints 1 Guido Van Calster BEL 20px|alt=A light blue jersey Del Tongo 204 2 Noël Dejonckheere BEL Teka 168 3 Jozef Lieckens BEL Safir 138 4 Francesco Moser ITA Tuc Gis 110 5 Benny Van Brabant BEL Tönissteiner 102 6 Jesús Suárez Cueva ESP Hueso 98 7 Julián Gorospe ESP Reynolds 96 8 Miguel Angel Iglesias ESP Kelme 90 9 Éric Caritoux FRA 20px|alt=Gold jersey Skil 88 10 Raimund Dietzen GER Teka 82 Mountains classification +Final mountains classification (1-5)RiderTeamPoints 1 Felipe Yáñez ESP 20px|alt=Green jersey Orbea 81 2 José Luis Laguía ESP Reynolds 59 3 Éric Caritoux FRA 20px|alt=Gold jersey Skil 50 4 Vicente Belda ESP Kelme 49 5 Alberto Fernández Blanco ESP Zor 40 Team classification +Final team classification (1-5)TeamTime 1 Teka 270h 24' 40" 2 Zor + 9' 35" 3 Reynolds + 20' 17" 4 Hueso + 23' 58" 5 Skil + 39' 25" Intermediate sprints classification + Final intermediate sprints classification (1–5)RiderTeamPoints 1 Jozef Lieckens BEL Safir 39 2 Eddy Van Haerens BEL Safir 30 3 Mariano Bayon ESP Dormilon 17 4 Antonio Coll ESP Teka 12 5 Palmiro Masciarelli ITA Tuc Gis 11 Special sprints classification +Final special sprints classification (1–3)RiderTeamPoints 1 Jesús Suárez Cueva ESP Hueso 35 2 José Maria Caroz ESP Dormilon 19 3 Daniël Rossel BEL Tönissteiner 15 4 Jean-Claude Bagot FRA Skil 13 5 Antonio Coll ESP Teka 8 References 1984 Vuelta a España P 10 11 19 Category:1984 in road cycling 1984 Category:1984 in Spanish sport Vuelta a España Vuelta a España Category:1984 Super Prestige Pernod