The 9th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 17 August to 10 September 1950. It consisted of 22 stages covering a total of , and was won by Emilio Rodríguez. Rodríguez also won the mountains classification.
Teams and riders
Route
+List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 17 August Madrid to Valladolid 2 18 August Valladolid to León 3 19 August León to Gijón 4a 20 August Gijón to Torrelavega 4b Torrelavega to Santander 5 21 August Santander to Bilbao 6 22 August Bilbao to Irun 7 24 August Irun to Pamplona 8a 25 August Pamplona to Tudela Individual time trial 8b Tudela to Zaragoza 9 26 August Zaragoza to Lleida 10 27 August Lleida to Barcelona 11 29 August Barcelona to Tarragona 12 30 August Tarragona to Castellón 13 31 August Castellón to Valencia Individual time trial 14 1 September Valencia to Murcia 15 2 September Murcia to Lorca 16 3 September Lorca to Granada 17 4 September Granada to Málaga 18 6 September Málaga to Cádiz 19a 7 September Cádiz to Jerez de la Frontera Individual time trial 19b Jerez de la Frontera to Seville 20 8 September Seville to Mérida 21 9 September Mérida to Talavera de la Reina 22 10 September Talavera de la Reina to Madrid Total
Results Final General Classification
RankRiderTeamTime 1 Emilio Rodríguez 134h 49' 19" 2 Manolo Rodríguez + 15' 30" 3 José Serra + 16' 05" 4 Bernardo Ruiz + 19' 16" 5 Umberto Drei + 25' 23" 6 Senen Mesa + 31' 44" 7 Bernardo Capo + 36' 29" 8 Alighiero Ridolfi + 46' 38" 9 Antonio Gelabert + 47' 03" 10 Jesús Loroño + 1h 00' 26" 11 Francisco Exposito 12 Andrés Trobat 13 Luis Sanchez 14 Rik Evens 15 Victorio Garcia 16 Martin Mancisidor 17 Agustin Miro 18 Senen Blanco 19 Angel Bruna 20 Mateo Coll Bover 21 Antonio Sanchez 22 Matias Alemany 23 Luis Navarro 24 Elias Walckiers 25 Guillermo Peregrina
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