2004 Vuelta a España

59th edition of Vuelta a España 2004 Vuelta a España 4–26 September 21 2925 km 77h 42' 46" Roberto Heras ESP ONC 2004 gold Santiago Pérez ESP PHO 2004 Francisco Mancebo ESP MOV 2004 Erik Zabel GER THR 2004 blue-fish Félix Cárdenas COL Orbitel granate Roberto Heras ESP LST 2004 white KEL 2004 2003 2005 The 59th edition of the Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 4 September to 26 September 2004. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 2925 km mi on, and was won by Roberto Heras of the Liberty Seguros cycling team. Halfway through the 2004 Vuelta, it appeared it would become an easy win for Heras, but in the last week his fellow countryman Santiago Pérez won two heavy mountain stages, thus becoming an important rival. Eventually Heras won with only 30 seconds advantage on Pérez. Pérez and Phonak hearing systems teammate Tyler Hamilton would later test positive for blood doping from blood samples taken during the race.https://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2004/dec04/dec03news Perez vows to continue Cyclingnews.com 2008-01-04 Francisco Mancebo, also from Spain took third. The first non-Spaniard was Stefano Garzelli from Italy in 11th. The points classification was won by Erik Zabel from Germany, the mountains classification was won by Félix Cárdenas from Colombia and the combination classification was won by Roberto Heras. Kelme was the winner of the team ranking. Alessandro Petacchi, an Italian sprinter won four stages, but he did not finish the Vuelta. Teams and riders List of teams and cyclists in the 2004 Vuelta a España Route +List of stageshttps://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/vuelta04/?id=stages 59th Vuelta a España Cycling News 24 July 2018http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tde/tde2004.php 59ème Vuelta a España 2004 Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20050112032109/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tde/tde2004.php 12 January 2005 Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 4 September León to León 28 km 0 on 22px Team time trial USP 2004 2 5 September León to Burgos 207 km 0 on Alessandro Petacchi ITA 3 6 September Burgos to Soria 156 km 0 on Alejandro Valverde ESP 4 7 September Soria to Zaragoza 167 km 0 on Alessandro Petacchi ITA 5 8 September Zaragoza to Morella 186.5 km 0 on Denis Menchov RUS 6 9 September Benicarló to Castellón de la Plana 157 km 0 on Óscar Freire ESP 7 10 September Castellón de la Plana to Valencia 170 km 0 on Alessandro Petacchi ITA 8 11 September Almussafes to Almussafes 40.1 km 0 on 22px Individual time trial Tyler HamiltonVíctor Hugo Peña COL 9 12 September Xàtiva to Alto de Aitana 162 km 0 on Leonardo Piepoli ITA 10 13 September Alcoy to Xorret de Catí 174.2 km 0 on Eladio Jiménez ESP 11 14 September San Vicente del Raspeig to Caravaca de la Cruz 165 km 0 on David Zabriskie 15 September Rest day 12 16 September Almería to Calar Alto Observatory 145 km 0 on Roberto Heras ESP 13 17 September El Ejido to Málaga 172 km 0 on Alessandro Petacchi ITA 14 18 September Málaga to Granada 167 km 0 on Santiago Pérez ESP 15 19 September Granada to Sierra Nevada 29.6 km 0 on 22px Individual time trial Santiago Pérez ESP 20 September Rest day 16 21 September Olivenza to Cáceres 190.1 km 0 on José Julia ESP 17 22 September Plasencia to La Covatilla 170 km 0 on Félix Cárdenas COL 18 23 September Béjar to Ávila 196 km 0 on Javier Pascual Rodríguez ESP 19 24 September Ávila to Collado Villalba 142 km 0 on Constantino Zaballa ESP 20 25 September Alcobendas to Puerto de Navacerrada 178 km 0 on José Enrique Gutiérrez ESP 21 26 September Madrid to Madrid 28 km 0 on 22px Individual time trial Santiago Pérez ESP Total 2925 km 0 on Jersey progress Stage(Winner) General classification Points Classification Mountains Classification Combination Classification Team Classification Stage 1 (TTT)(DSC 2004) Floyd Landis Floyd Landis Floyd Landis Floyd Landis DSC 2004 Stage 2 (Alessandro Petacchi) Max van Heeswijk Erik Zabel Stage 3 (Alejandro Valverde) Benoît Joachim Stuart O'Grady Stage 4 (Alessandro Petacchi) Erik Zabel Stage 5 (Denis Menchov) Manuel Beltrán Stuart O'Grady Juan Manuel Gárate Stage 6 (Óscar Freire) Francisco Mancebo Manuel Beltrán Stage 7 (Alessandro Petacchi) Erik Zabel Denis Menchov Stage 8 (Tyler Hamilton) Floyd Landis Floyd Landis Stage 9 (Leonardo Piepoli) David Fernández Francisco Mancebo Stage 10 (Eladio Jiménez) Stuart O'Grady José Miguel Elías KEL 2004 Stage 11 (David Zabriskie) Alejandro Valverde Stage 12 (Roberto Heras) Roberto Heras Roberto Heras Roberto Heras Stage 13 (Alessandro Petacchi) Erik Zabel Stage 14 (Santiago Pérez) Stage 15 (ITT) (Santiago Pérez) Stage 16 (José Julía) Stage 17 (Félix Cárdenas) Félix Cárdenas Stage 18 (Javier Pascual Rodríguez) Stage 19 (Constantino Zaballa) Stage 20 (José Enrique Gutiérrez) Stage 21 (ITT) (Santiago Pérez) Final Roberto Heras Erik Zabel Félix Cárdenas Roberto Heras KEL 2004 General classification (final) RankRiderTeamTime1Roberto Heras ESP LST 2004 77h42'46"2Santiago Pérez ESPPHO 2004 30"3Francisco Mancebo ESP MOV 2004 2'13"4Alejandro Valverde ESPKEL 2004 3'30"5Carlos García Quesada ESPKEL 2004 7'44"6Carlos Sastre ESP CSC 2004 8'11"7Isidro Nozal ESP LST 2004 8'32"8José Ángel Gómez Marchante ESPPaternina–Costa de Almería 13'08"9Luis Pérez ESP COF 2004 13'24"10David Blanco ESP KEL 2004 15'15"11Stefano Garzelli ITAVIN 2004 16'33"12Marcos Serrano ESPLST 2004 17'14"13Manuel Beltrán ESP DSC 2004 17'43"14Francisco José Lara ESPPaternina–Costa de Almería 24'16"15Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2004 29'23"16Damiano Cunego ITASAE 2004 29'51"17Jorge Ferrío ESPPaternina–Costa de Almería 30'49"18David Plaza ESPCafe Baque 31'24"19Eladio Jiménez ESP KEL 2004 34'35"20Luis Pasamontes ESPRelax–Bergasol 37'49"21Unai Osa ESP MOV 2004 38'06" References External links La Vuelta (Official site in Spanish, English, and French) Cyclingnews.com 2004 Vuelta a Espana coverage 2004 Vuelta a España 1 11 12 21 2004 Category:2004 in Spanish road cycling Category:September 2004 sports events in Spain