Running from Saturday August 24th to Sunday September 15th 2019
The Vuelta will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3272,2 kilometres.
6 flat stages
4 hilly stages
9 mountain stages
1 individual time-trial stage
1 team time-trial stage
2 rest days
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STAGE
TYPE
DATE
START AND FINISH
DISTANCE
DETAILS
1
Team Time-Trial
Saturday, august 24, 2019
Salinas de Torrevieja > Torrevieja
13.4 km
STAGE 1
2
Hilly
Sunday, august 25, 2019
Benidorm > Calpe
199.6 km
STAGE 2
3
Flat
Monday, august 26, 2019
Ibi. Ciudad del Juguete > Alicante
188 km
STAGE 3
4
Flat
Tuesday, august 27, 2019
Cullera > El Puig
175.5 km
STAGE 4
5
Hilly
Wednesday, august 28, 2019
L’ Eliana > Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre
170.7 km
STAGE 5
6
Hilly
Thursday, august 29, 2019
Mora de Rubielos > Ares del Maestrat
198.9 km
STAGE 6
7
Mountain
Friday, august 30, 2019
Onda > Mas de la Costa
183.2 km
STAGE 7
8
Hilly
Saturday, august 31, 2019
Valls > Igualada
166.9 km
STAGE 8
9
Mountain
Sunday, september 1, 2019
Andorra la Vella > Cortals d’Encamp
94.4 km
STAGE 9
-
Rest Day
Monday, september 2, 2019
Pau
REST 1
10
Individual time-trial
Tuesday, september 3, 2019
Jurançon > Pau
36.2 km
STAGE 10
11
Mountain
Wednesday, september 4, 2019
Saint Palais > Urdax-Dantxarinea
180 km
STAGE 11
12
Mountain
Thursday, september 5, 2019
Circuito de Navarra > Bilbao
171.4 km
STAGE 12
13
Mountain
Friday, september 6, 2019
Bilbao > Los Machucos. Monumento Vaca Pasiega
166.4 km
STAGE 13
14
Flat
Saturday, september 7, 2019
San Vicente de la Barquera > Oviedo
188 km
STAGE 14
15
Mountain
Sunday, september 8, 2019
Tineo > Santuario del Acebo
154.4 km
STAGE 15
16
Mountain
Monday, september 9, 2019
Pravia > Alto de La Cubilla. Lena
144.4 km
STAGE 16
-
Rest Day
Tuesday, september 10, 2019
Burgos
REST 2
17
Flat
Wednesday, september 11, 2019
Aranda de Duero > Guadalajara
219.6 km
STAGE 17
18
Mountain
Thursday, september 12, 2019
Comunidad de Madrid. Colmenar Viejo > Becerril de la Sierra
(The rider start list is still ‘provisional’ or incomplete, and subject to change…)
Lotto-Soudal (confirmed)
ARMÉE Sander
DE GENDT Thomas
HAGEN Carl Fredrik
MARCZYŃSKI Tomasz
VAN DER SANDE Tosh
VAN GOETHEM Brian
VANHOUCKE Harm
WALLAYS Jelle
Movistar Team
QUINTANA Nairo
VALVERDE Alejandro
AMADOR Andrey
CARAPAZ Richard
Team Jumbo-Visma
KRUIJSWIJK Steven
ROGLIČ Primož
Ag2r La Mondiale
GENIEZ Alexandre
Astana Pro Team
Bahrain-Merida
Bora-Hansgrohe
MAJKA Rafał
CCC Team
Deceuninck-Quick-Step
Groupama-FDJ
Mitchelton-Scott (confirmed)
GRMAY Tsgabu
SMITH Dion
SCHULTZ Nick
MEZGEC Luka
CHAVES Esteban
BEWLEY Sam
HOWSON Damien
NIEVE Mikel
Team Dimension Data
KING Ben
CAVENDISH Mark
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
EF Education First
CRADDOCK Lawson
URÁN Rigoberto
VAN GARDEREN Tejay
Team Katusha-Alpecin
Team Ineos
Team Sunweb (confirmed)
ARNDT Nikias
KELDERMAN Wilco
PEDERSEN Casper
POWER Robert
ROCHE Nicolas
STORER Michael
TUSVELD Martijn
WALSCHEID Max
Trek-Segafredo
UAE Team Emirates
ARU Fabio
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (confirmed)
EDET Nicolas
HERRADA Jesús
MATÉ Luis Ángel
HANSEN Jesper
ATAPUMA Darwin
TOUZE Damien
HERRADA José
LE TURNIER Mathias
Should please the Brits here to see Mark Cavendish selected for Team Dimension Data : )
I’m a little surprised of the Yates absence in the Mitchelton-Scott ‘confirmed’ team line up : /
Primož Roglic could be a prime contender for Team Jumbo-Visma, he finished this years Giro 3rd on the podium.
Movistar, despite the absence of Mikel Landa [who is Spanish], the inclusion of Richard Carapaz, who won the Giro earlier this year, with Amador, Valverde, and Quintana, are sporting a very strong team, and all excellent climbers.
Team Ineos playing their cards close to their chest, we will find out very soon : )
Can’t believe Doumolan is not competing as his injury didn’t seem so severe or really bad at the time and he would of had over two months of recovery as well since it happened. Must be much more serious than he was letting on!
The occupational hazard of cycle racing, on one hand these guys are among the fittest athletes on the planet, but cyclists can so easily get knobled in a crash.
I wish crashes didn’t happen so often, it’s not that they have any protection wearing lycra.
Meanwhile, Tom Dumoulin isn’t only out for the rest of the season due to his knee injury, but he’s unhappy in the Sunweb team which he’s contracted to be with until 2021. He wants to move to Jumbo-Visma.
Hey! Maybe team Ineos wil take him for next season then they’ll have 5 potential leaders/tour winners all vying and competing to be the leader. Carapaz, Thomas, Bernal, Froome and Dumoulin. As it is there’s only four potential leaders for next years tour!!!
UK freeview cheapskates will only see an hour of the highlights on ITV4 each day in the evenings,
and a repeat showing each following morning.
Live coverage is on Eurosport 1
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I’m thinking of subscribing to Eurosport just for one month [to cover la Vuelta] and costs £6.99, which is not so bad for HD viewing and maybe no advertisements (?)
But dunno if the subscribing process is easy?
do they send you a card to slot in the back of the telly?
If it’s satellite (?) then it’s no good for me, only have a digital aerial transmission : /
How’s your broadband connection? I get most of my tele via streaming these days and a quick Google shows a lot of options for Eurosport - some of which may even be legal!
We will need to wait until next year to find out what with Tom’s knee injury.
But it does seem to be the trend to have more than one top guy in the team capable of winning on general classification. They’ve probably come to realise the unpredictable can and does happen, not only with crashes but having a day inexplicably off form or even inexplicably on form, so why not have two or even three guys who are capable, and this also plays into the trendy tactic of confusion the opposition by sending one or other up the road to share the pressure, doing the old one-two.
It was tongue in cheek as team Ineos will already have more than enough on their plate regarding who’s gonna be the leader at next years tour de france.
I think he’ll have to as i just don’t think he’s good enough to win a grand rour unlike Tom who has already done and is more than capable of winning the tour next year. There’s no doubt that Tom will need super domestiques to challenge the mighty firepower of team Ineos next year!
Yeah I think the problem of the Dutch riders in general is that they are very strong to follow and stay on track, but miss the power to have a quick acceleration away from the component. So they rely on not making a mistaking and hoping to crack the component in the long run. Guys like Bernal also have the additional punch to make a difference. Tom has as the exception of the rule become better at it all, but still only has the time trial as the ultimate weapon…, so let’s see what happens. It should be exciting in the coming season with so many great contenders back on their bikes.
It will be interesting to see what Prudhomme does with the parcours. Assuming Froome is back then Ineos will have cover in the event of either a route with a fair few kms of TT (Froome) or not many at all (Bernal). After this year PInot will be a challenger so I suspect the TT kms will be small.
