The 33rd Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 25 April to 14 May 1978. It consisted of 19 stages covering a total of , and was won by Bernard Hinault of the Renault–Elf–Gitane cycling team. Ferdi Van Den Haute won the points classification and Andrés Oliva won the mountains classification.
The final stage in San Sebastian was annulled because of Basque protesters, who threw logs into the roads, and then blocked Jean-Rene Bernaudeau.
Teams and riders
Route
+List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner P 25 April Gijón to Gijón Individual time trial 1 26 April Gijón to Gijón 2 27 April Gijón to Cangas de Onís 3 28 April Cangas de Onís to León 4 29 April León to Valladolid 5 30 April Valladolid to Ávila 6 1 May Torrelaguna to Torrejón de Ardoz 7 2 May Torrejón de Ardoz to Cuenca 8 3 May Cuenca to Benicàssim 9 4 May Benicàssim to Tortosa 10 5 May Tortosa to Calafell 11a 6 May Calafell to Barcelona 11b Barcelona to Barcelona Individual time trial 12 7 May Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) to (Santa Margarida de Montbui) 13 8 May Igualada to Jaca 14 9 May Jaca to Logroño 15 10 May Logroño to Miranda de Ebro 16 11 May Miranda de Ebro to 17 12 May Ampuero to Bilbao 18 13 May Bilbao to Amurrio 19a 14 May Amurrio to San Sebastián 19b San Sebastián to San Sebastián Individual time trial Annulled Total
Results General classification + Final general classification (1–10)RankNameTeamTime 1 Renault–Elf–Gitane 85h 24' 14" 2 Kas–Campagnolo + 3' 02" 3 Renault–Elf–Gitane + 3' 47" 4 Teka + 4' 23" 5 Marc–Zeepcentrale + 4' 28" 6 Marc–Zeepcentrale + 5' 52" 7 Kas–Campagnolo + 6' 12" 8 Kas–Campagnolo + 6' 53" 9 Novostil–Helios + 10' 12" 10 Kas–Campagnolo + 13' 57" Final general classification (11–25)RankNameTeamTime 11 Teka 12 Kas–Campagnolo 13 Teka 14 Teka 15 Renault–Elf–Gitane 16 Novostil–Helios 17 Kas–Campagnolo 18 Teka 19 Novostil–Helios 20 Teka 21 Transmallorca–Gios 22 Kas–Campagnolo 23 Teka 24 Teka 25 Renault–Elf–Gitane
Points classification +Final points classification (1–9)RankNameTeamPoints 1 Marc–Zeepcentrale 210 2 Renault–Elf–Gitane 157 3 Renault–Elf–Gitane 130 4 Teka 113 5 Marc–Zeepcentrale 108 6 Teka 92 7 Marc–Zeepcentrale 70 8 Kas–Campagnolo 70 9 Transmallorca 69
Mountains classification +Final mountains classification (1–5)RankNameTeamPoints 1 Teka 112 2 Kas–Campagnolo 81 3 Renault–Elf–Gitane 60 4 Novostil–Helios 48 5 Teka 44
Team classification +Final team classification (1–9)RankTeamTime1Kas255h 41' 01"2Teka+ 5' 52"3Renault+ 10' 07"4Novostil–Helios+ 35' 44"5Transmallorca+ 1h 03' 05"6Superia+ 1h 11' 16"7Italia+ 1h 37' 52"8Safir+ 2h 41' 03"9Splendor+ 3h 24' 27"
Intermediate sprints classification +Final intermediate sprints classification (1–5)RankNameTeamPoints 1 Renault–Elf–Gitane 31 2 Teka 11 3 Renault–Elf–Gitane 7 4 Novostil–Helios 6 5 Kas–Campagnolo 5
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