The 45th Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 24 April to 15 May 1990. It consisted of 22 stages covering a total of , and was won by Marco Giovannetti of the Seur cycling team.
Defending champion Pedro Delgado was the principal favourite for the win of the race. Delgado was joined by a strong Banesto team that included Miguel Induráin and Julián Gorospe. The other Spanish favourites included 1986 winner Álvaro Pino as well as Anselmo Fuerte and 1982 winner Marino Lejarreta. Of the potential foreign winners were the strong Colombians which included Fabio Parra and Lucho Herrera.
Pello Ruiz Cabestany won the opening time trial and took the first leader's jersey. The following day a breakaway got away and Viktor Klimov took the jersey. On the sixth stage a break won the day and took an advantage of over four minutes. Gorospe took the leader's jersey. However, on the eleventh stage, Gorospe had a bad day and lost the jersey to Marco Giovannetti who had been second on the general classification and had been in the break that gained the time on the favourites. Delgado tried to close the gap to Giovannetti over the remainder of the race but could not. Giovannetti won his first and only grand tour ahead of Delgado and Anselmo Fuerte.
Route
+List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 24 April Benicàssim to Benicàssim Individual time trial 2a 25 April Oropesa to Castellón 2b Benicàssim to Borriana Team time trial 3 26 April Dénia to Murcia 4 27 April Murcia to Almería 5 28 April Almería to Sierra Nevada 6 29 April Loja to Ubrique 7 30 April Jerez to Seville 8 1 May Seville to Mérida 9 2 May Cáceres to Guijuelo 10 3 May Peñaranda de Bracamonte to León 11 4 May León to 12 5 May to Naranco 13 6 May Oviedo to Santander 14 7 May Santander to Nájera 15 8 May Ezcaray to Valdezcaray Individual time trial 16 9 May Logroño to Pamplona 17 10 May Pamplona to Jaca 18 11 May Jaca to Cerler 19 12 May Benasque to Zaragoza 20 13 May Zaragoza to Zaragoza Individual time trial 21 14 May Collado Villalba to Palazuelos de Eresma 22 15 May Segovia to Madrid Total
Results Final General Classification
RankRiderTeamTime 1 Marco Giovannetti Seur 94h 36' 40s 2 Pedro Delgado Banesto a 1' 28s 3 Anselmo Fuerte ONCE a 1' 48s 4 Pello Ruiz Cabestany ONCE a 2' 16s 5 Fabio Parra Kelme-Ibexpress a 3' 07s 6 Federico Echave CLAS-Cajastur a 3' 52s 7 Miguel Induráin Banesto a 6' 22s 8 Ivan Ivanov Alfa Lum a 6' 48s 9 Uwe Ampler PDM-Concorde a 7' 15s 10 Denis Roux Toshiba a 7' 56s 11 José Martín Farfán Kelme-Ibexpress 12 Luis Herrera Café de Colombia 13 Carlos Jaramillo Postóbon 14 Ignacio Gaston Crespo CLAS-Cajastur 15 Francisco Rodríguez Pony Malta-Avianca 16 Tony Rominger Chateaux d'Ax 17 Alvaro Mejia Postóbon 18 Jesús Montoya BH-Amaya 19 Álvaro Sierra Café de Colombia 20 Jon Unzaga Bombin Seur 21 Julián Gorospe Banesto 22 Alberto Luis Camargo Café de Colombia 23 José Luis Laguia Lotus-Festina 24 Pablo Wilches Pony Malta-Avianca 25 Gerardo Moncada Postóbon
References
External links La Vuelta (Official site in Spanish, English, and French)