The 2010 Vuelta a España is the 65th edition of Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. This Vuelta features 22 cycling teams. Seventeen of the teams invited to the Vuela are a part of the UCI ProTour, the other five teams are Professional Continental teams. The Vuelta will begin in Seville on August 28 and finish on in Madrid on September 19.
2009 Vuelta champion Alejandro Valverde is under suspension, and is thus not part of the field. Bib number one will be worn by 's Íñigo Cuesta, a gesture by the race organizers to commemorate his record-breaking 17th consecutive appearance in the race.
Startlist As of August 27, 2010 Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Vuelta Pos. Position in the general classification HD Denotes a rider finished outside the time limit,followed by the stage in which they did so DNS Denotes a rider who did not start,followed by the stage before which they withdrew DNF Denotes a rider who did not finish,followed by the stage in which they withdrew DSQ Denotes a rider who was disqualified,followed by the stage in which they were withdrawn
By Team
CTT No. Rider Pos. 1 26 2 DNF-17 3 DNF-11 4 DNF-14 5 104 6 66 7 DNS-17 8 8 9 6General manager: Joop Alberda ALM No. Rider Pos. 11 7 12 DNF-15 13 58 14 55 15 16 17 18 19 General manager: Vincent Lavenu ACA No. Rider Pos. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 General manager: Antonio Cabello AST No. Rider Pos. 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 General manager: Yvon Sanquer BBO No. Rider Pos. 41 42 43 DNF-9 44 45 46 47 DNF-9 48 49 DNS-19 General manager: Jean-René Bernaudeau GCE No. Rider Pos. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 General manager: Eusebio Unzué COF No. Rider Pos. 61 62 63 DNF-2 64 65 66 67 68 69 General manager: Éric Boyer EUS No. Rider Pos. 71 DNF-14 72 73 DNF-15 74 DNF-14 75 76 77 78 79 General manager: Igor González de Galdeano FOT No. Rider Pos. 81 82 83 84 DNF-2 85 86 87 88 89 DNF-12General manager: Mauro Giannetti FDJ No. Rider Pos. 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 DNF-10 99 DNF-15 General manager: Marc Madiot GRM No. Rider Pos. 101 102 DNF-13 103 104 105 David Millar (GBR) 106 107 108 109 DNS-18 General manager: Jonathan Vaughters LAM No. Rider Pos. 111 DNF-9 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 General manager: Giuseppe Saronni LIQ No. Rider Pos. 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 General manager: Roberto Amadio OLO No. Rider Pos. 131 132 133 DNF-9 134 135 136 137 138 139 DNF-15 General manager: Marc Sergeant QST No. Rider Pos. 141 142 143 144 145 146 DNF-8 147 148 149 General manager: Patrick Lefevere RAB No. Rider Pos. 151 152 DNS-15 153 154 155 156 157 158 DNF-16 159 General manager: Erik Breukink SKY No. Rider Pos. 161 DNS-8Team Sky abandoned the race because of the death of masseur Txema González on September 3. An illness, unrelated to González' condition, had affected the team during the race causing the earlier withdrawal of three riders (Announcement of withdrawal ) 162 DNF-3 163 DNS-8 164 DNF-7 165 DNS-8 166 Peter Kennaugh (GBR) DNS-8 167 DNS-8 168 Ian Stannard (GBR) DNS-8 169 Ben Swift (GBR) DNF-3General manager: Dave Brailsford THR No. Rider Pos. 171 172 Mark Cavendish (GBR) 173 DNF-4 174 175 DNF-13 176 177 178 179 General manager: Bob Stapleton KAT No. Rider Pos. 181 182 183 DNF-14 184 185 186 187 188 189 DNF-20 General manager: Andrei Tchmil MRM No. Rider Pos. 191 192 DNS-11 193 194 195 196 197 DNS-12 198 199 General manager: Gerry van Gerwen SAX No. Rider Pos. 201 202 DNF-19 203 204 205 206 207 DNS-10 208 DNS-10 209 General manager: Bjarne Riis XAC No. Rider Pos. 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 General manager: Álvaro Pino
By rider Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Vuelta Pos. Position in the general classification DNS Denotes a rider who did not start, followed by the stage before which he withdrew DNF Denotes a rider who did not finish, followed by the stage in which he withdrew HD Denotes a rider who finished outside the time limit, followed by the stage where he was eliminated from the race. Age correct as of 28 August 2010, the date on which the Vuelta began
Number Name Team Nationality AgePosition 1 Íñigo Cuesta41 2 Theo Bos27 3 Philip Deignan26 DNF-11 4 Stefan Denifl22 DNF-14 5 Xavier Florencio30 6 Óscar Pujol26 7 Thor Hushovd32 8 Carlos Sastre 35 9 Xavier Tondó31 11 Nicolas Roche26 12 José Luis Arrieta39 13 Guillaume Bonnafond23 14 Hubert Dupont29 15 Sébastien Hinault36 16 Blel Kadri23 17 Rinaldo Nocentini32 18 Christophe Riblon29 19 Ludovic Turpin35 21 José Ángel Gómez Marchante30 22 Jorge Montenegro27 23 Sergio Carrasco25 24 Juan Javier Estrada29 25 Javier Moreno26 26 Manuel Ortega29 27 Antonio Piedra24 28 Javier Ramírez32 29 José Vicente Toribio24 31 Sergey Renev25 32 Assan Bazayev29 33 Allan Davis30 34 Alexsandr Dyachenko26 35 Dmitry Fofonov34 36 Enrico Gasparotto28 37 Valentin Iglinsky29 38 Josep Jufré35 39 Andrey Zeits23 41 Johann Tschopp28 42 William Bonnet27 43 Freddy Bichot30 DNF-9 44 Vincent Jérôme25 45 Alexandre Pichot27 46 Perrig Quéméneur26 47 Pierre Rolland23 DNF-9 48 Matthieu Sprick28 49 Nicolas Vogondy33 51 David Arroyo30 52 Marzio Bruseghin36 53 Imanol Erviti26 54 José Vicente García38 55 David López29 56 Luis Pasamontes30 57 Rubén Plaza30 58 Luis León Sánchez26 59 Rigoberto Urán23 61 Samuel Dumoulin30 62 Tony Gallopin22 63 Mickaël Buffaz31 DNF-2 64 Arnaud Labbe33 65 David Moncoutié35 66 Rémi Pauriol28 67 Nico Sijmens32 68 Sébastien Minard28 69 Romain Zingle23 71 Igor Antón27 DNF-14 72 Koldo Fernández28 73 Beñat Intxausti24 DNF-15 74 Egoi Martínez32 DNF-14 75 Mikel Nieve26 76 Juan José Oroz29 77 Amets Txurruka27 78 Pablo Urtasun30 79 Gorka Verdugo31 81 José Alberto Benítez28 82 Manuel Cardoso27 83 Giampaolo Cheula31 84 Arkaitz Durán24 HD-2 85 David Gutiérrez Gutiérrez27 86 Enrique Mata25 87 Martin Pedersen27 88 Johnnie Walker23 89 David Vitoria25 DNF-12 91 Christophe Le Mével29 92 Rémy Di Gregorio25 93 Pierre Cazaux26 94 Sébastien Chavanel29 95 Mikaël Cherel24 96 Yauheni Hutarovich26 97 Gianni Meersman24 98 Yoann Offredo23 DNF-10 99 Arthur Vichot21 101 Tom Danielson32 102 Julian Dean35 DNS-13 103 Tyler Farrar26 104 Michel Kreder23 105 David MillarGreat Britain33 106 Thomas Peterson23 107 Christian Vande Velde34 108 Matt Wilson32 109 David Zabriskie31 111 Alessandro Petacchi36 DNF-9 112 Grega Bole25 113 Danilo Hondo36 114 Andrey Kashechkin30 115 Angelo Furlan33 116 Marco Marzano30 117 Manuele Mori36 118 Daniele Pietropolli30 119 Daniele Righi34 121 Daniele Bennati29 122 Mauro Finetto31 123 Jacopo Guarnieri23 124 Maciej Paterski23 125 Roman Kreuziger24 126 Vincenzo Nibali25 127 Oliver Zaugg29 128 Ivan Santaromita26 129 Frederik Willems30 131 Jan Bakelants24 132 Jurgen Van Goolen29 133 Mickaël Delage25 DNF-9 134 Philippe Gilbert28 135 Leif Hoste33 136 Olivier Kaisen27 137 Jean-Christophe Péraud33 138 Greg Van Avermaet25 139 Jelle Vanendert25 DNF-15 141 Carlos Barredo29 142 Dario Cataldo25 143 Kevin De Weert28 144 Nikolas Maes24 145 Davide Malacarne23 146 Branislau Samoilau25 DNF-8 147 Andreas Stauff23 148 Matteo Tosatto36 149 Wouter Weylandt25 151 Mauricio Ardila31 152 Óscar Freire34 DNS-15 153 Juan Manuel Gárate34 154 Dmitry Kozonchuk26 155 Sebastian Langeveld25 156 Grischa Niermann34 157 Denis Menchov32 158 Laurens ten Dam29 159 Nick Nuyens30 161 Thomas Löfkvist26 DNS-8 162 John-Lee Augustyn24 DNF-3 163 Kjell Carlström33 DNS-8 164 Juan Antonio Flecha32 DNF-7 165 Simon Gerrans30 DNS-8 166 Peter KennaughGreat Britain21 DNS-8 167 Lars Petter Nordhaug26 DNS-8 168 Ian StannardGreat Britain23 DNS-8 169 Ben SwiftGreat Britain22 DNF-3 171 Lars Bak30 172 Mark CavendishGreat Britain25 173 Bernhard Eisel29 DNF-4 174 Matthew Goss23 175 Hayden Roulston29 DNF-13 176 Kanstantsin Sivtsov28 177 Tejay van Garderen22 178 Martin Velits25 179 Peter Velits25 181 Joaquim Rodríguez 31 182 Giampaolo Caruso30 183 Denis Galimzyanov23 DNS-14 184 Vladimir Gusev28 185 Joan Horrach36 186 Vladimir Karpets29 187 Alexandr Kolobnev29 188 Mikhail Ignatiev25 189 Filippo Pozzato28 191 Robert Förster32 192 Markus Fothen28 DNS-11 193 Markus Eichler28 194 Dominik Roels23 195 Johannes Fröhlinger25 196 Björn Schröder29 197 Roy Sentjens29 DNS-12 198 Niki Terpstra26 199 Paul Voss24 201 Anders Lund25 202 Fabian Cancellara29 203 Kasper Klostergaard27 204 Juan José Haedo29 205 Dominic Klemme23 206 Gustav Larsson29 207 Stuart O'Grady37 DNS-10 208 Andy Schleck25 DNS-10 209 Fränk Schleck30 211 Ezequiel Mosquera34 212 Gustavo César30 213 Delio Fernández24 214 David García32 215 Marcos García23 216 Vladimir Isaichev24 217 Serafín Martínez26 218 Gonzalo Rabuñal26 219 Gustavo Rodríguez30
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