The 10th 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 8 May 1955. It consisted of 15 stages covering a total of , and was won by Jean Dotto. Fiorenzo Magni won the points classification and Giuseppe Buratti won the mountains classification.
Teams and riders
Route
+List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 23 April Bilbao to San Sebastián 2 24 April San Sebastián to Bayonne (France) 3 25 April Bayonne (France) to Pamplona 4 26 April Pamplona to Zaragoza 5 27 April Zaragoza to Lleida 6 28 April Lleida to Barcelona 7 30 April Barcelona to Barcelona Individual time trial 8 1 May Barcelona to Tortosa 9 2 May Tortosa to Valencia 10 3 May Valencia to Cuenca 11 4 May Cuenca to Madrid 12 5 May Madrid to Madrid Team time trial Italy A 13 6 May Madrid to Valladolid 14 7 May Valladolid to Bilbao 15 8 May Bilbao to Bilbao Total
Results +Final general classificationRankRiderTeamTime 1 Jean Dotto 81h 04' 02" 2 Antonio Jiménez Quiles + 3' 06" 3 Raphaël Géminiani + 5' 05" 4 Jesús Loroño + 5' 52" 5 Vicente Iturat + 6' 24" 6 Gabriel Company + 6' 30" 7 José Serra Gil + 7' 31" 8 Giuseppe Buratti + 8' 42" 9 Cosme Barrutia + 9' 37" 10 Georges Gay + 9' 44" 11 Salvador Botella 12 Carmelo Morales 13 Fiorenzo Magni 14 Bernardo Ruiz 15 Andrés Trobat 16 José Gómez del Moral 17 Arsene Bauwens 18 Gastone Nencini 19 Francisco Moreno 20 Antonio Gelabert 21 Federico Bahamontes 22 Manolo Rodríguez 23 Nello Lauredi 24 Emilio Rodríguez 25 Miguel Gual
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