The 44th Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from 24 April to 15 May 1989. It consisted of 22 stages covering a total of , and was won by Pedro Delgado of the Reynolds cycling team. The route was released on 21 January 1989.
Pedro Delgado had won the previous Tour de France and was seen as the favourite for the race. Delgado came with a Reynolds team that contained Miguel Indurain, who had just won Paris–Nice and was also seen as a potential favourite. The first few days of the race saw the leaders jersey change shoulders from Marnix Lameire, Benny van Brabant and Roland LeClercq. The Colombian Omar Hernández took the lead on the sixth stage. On the 12th stage to Cerler, Delgado battled with four Colombians and won the stage. He won the stage 15 time trial, where Colombian Martin Farfan took the leader's jersey. On the following stage to Santander, Delgado took the jersey. However Delgado's team had a bad day several stages later, when Indurain fell and broke his wrist; Delgado had difficulty keeping the jersey from Fabio Parra. Parra was only two seconds behind Delgado on the general classification at one stage. The final time trial was the last chance for Parra to try to take the jersey from Delgado, but Delgado won and increased his lead to win his third grand tour.
Route
+List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 24 April A Coruña to A Coruña 2 25 April A Coruña to Santiago de Compostela 3a 26 April Vigo to Vigo Team time trial 3b Vigo to Ourense 4 27 April Orense to Pontevedra 5 28 April La Bañeza to Béjar 6 29 April Béjar to Ávila 7 30 April Avila to Toledo 8 1 May Toledo to Albacete 9 2 May Albacete to Gandia 10 3 May Gandia to Benicàssim 11 4 May Vinaròs to Lleida 12 5 May Lleida to Cerler 13 6 May Benasque to Jaca 14 7 May Jaca to Zaragoza 15 8 May Ezcaray to Valdezcaray Individual time trial 16 9 May Haro to Santoña 17 10 May Santoña to Lakes of Enol 18 11 May Cangas de Onís to 19 12 May León to Valladolid 20 13 May Valladolid to Medina del Campo Individual time trial 21 14 May Collado Villalba to Palazuelos de Eresma (Destillerias DYC) 22 15 May Palazuelos de Eresma (Destilerias DYC) to Madrid Total
Results Final General Classification
RankRiderTeamTime 1 Pedro Delgado Reynolds 93h 01' 47s 2 Fabio Parra Kelme + 35s 3 Óscar Vargas Postobón + 3' 09s 4 Federico Echave BH-Sport + 3' 24s 5 Álvaro Pino BH-Sport + 4' 28s 6 Ivan Ivanov Alfa Lum + 5' 00s 7 Iñaki Gastón Kelme + 7' 24s 8 Pedro Saúl Morales Kelme + 7' 59s 9 Jean Claude Bagot R.M.O. + 8' 23s 10 Luc Suykerbuyk Lotus-Zahor + 9' 44s 11 Angel Ocana Perez Lotus-Zahor + 12' 08s 12 Martín Ramírez Café de Colombia + 12' 18s 13 Carlos Jaramillo Postobón + 12' 41s 14 Jaanus Kuum AD Renting 15 José Martín Farfán Café de Colombia 16 Jesús Blanco Villar Seur 17 Héctor Patarroyo Postobón 18 Pello Ruiz Cabestany ONCE 19 Gerardo Moncada Postobón 20 Marino Lejarreta Caja Rural-Orbea 21 Enrique Aja Cagigas Teka 22 Javier Murguialday BH Sport 23 Jon Unzaga Bombin Seur 24 Eduardo Chozas Olmo ONCE 25 Didier Virvaleix Histor-Sigma
References
External links
La Vuelta (Official site in Spanish, English, and French)