The 26th Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 29 April to 16 May 1971. It consisted of 17 stages covering a total of , and was won by Ferdinand Bracke of the Peugeot cycling team. Joop Zoetemelk won the mountains classification while Cyrille Guimard won the points classification.
After the final stage, Wim Schepers was ranked in second place, 19 seconds behind Bracke, but he was given a ten-minute time penalty for a doping offence, and dropped to 15th.
Teams and riders
Route
+List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner P 29 April Almería – Almería Individual time trial 1 30 April Almería to Águilas 2 1 May Águilas to Calp 3 2 May Calp to La Pobla de Farnals 4 3 May La Pobla de Farnals to Benicàssim 5 4 May Benicàssim to Salou 6 5 May Salou to Barcelona 7 6 May Barcelona to Manresa 8 7 May Balaguer to Jaca 9 8 May Jaca to Pamplona 10 9 May Pamplona to San Sebastián 11a 10 May San Sebastián to Bilbao 11b Bilbao to Bilbao Individual time trial 12 11 May Bilbao to Vitoria 13 12 May Vitoria to Torrelavega 14 13 May Torrelavega to Burgos 15 14 May Burgos to Segovia 16 15 May Segovia to Ávila 17a 16 May Ávila to Madrid 17b Madrid to Madrid Individual time trial Total
Results
Final General Classification
RankRiderTeamTime 1 Ferdinand Bracke Peugeot–BP–Michelin 73h 50' 05" 2 Wilfried David Peugeot–BP–Michelin + 59" 3 Luis Ocaña Bic + 1' 51" 4 Miguel María Lasa Orbea + 2' 18" 5 Manuel Galera Magdelano Karpy + 2' 37" 6 Joop Zoetemelk Mars–Flandria + 2' 48" 7 Agustín Tamames Werner + 5' 15" 8 Antonio Martos Aguilar Werner + 5' 45" 9 Raymond Poulidor Fagor–Mercier + 6' 01" 10 Luis Balagué Carreño Werner + 6' 17" 11 Edy Schütz Mars–Flandria 12 Cyrille Guimard Fagor–Mercier 13 Eufronio Enrique Santos La Casera 14 Antonio Menéndez La Casera 15 Wim Schepers Goudsmit 16 Domingo Perurena Tellechea Kas–Kaskol 17 Bernard Labourdette Bic 18 Ventura Díaz Arrey Werner 19 Gonzalo Aja Barguin Karpy 20 Rolf Wolfshohl Fagor–Mercier 21 Antonio Gómez del Moral Karpy 22 Andrés Oliva Sánchez La Casera 23 Eduardo Castelló Villanova Karpy 24 José Gómez Werner 25 José Luis Abilleira La Casera
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