The 2016 Vuelta a España was the 71st edition of the race. It was the last of cycling's three Grand Tours to take place during the 2016 road cycling season. The race started in Ourense on 20 August and finished in Madrid on 11 September.
All 18 UCI World Tour teams were automatically entitled to start the race. In May 2016, four UCI Professional Continental teams were awarded wildcard places in the race by the organisers, Unipublic.
Teams
The 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited to participate in the Vuelta. In addition, the race organisers, Unipublic, invited four wildcard teams. These included , the only Spanish-registered UCI Professional Continental team. Two French teams, and , also received entries. The final team to be invited was .
UCI WorldTeams
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Cyclists
Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Vuelta Pos. Position in the general classification Time Deficit to the winner of the general classification Denotes the winner of the general classification Denotes the winner of the points classification Denotes the winner of the mountains classification Denotes the winner of the combination 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 DSQ Denotes a rider who was disqualified from the race, followed by the stage in which this occurred Age correct as of 20 August 2016, the date on which the Vuelta began
By starting number
No. Name Nationality Team Age Pos. Time 1 Alejandro Valverde 2 Jonathan Castroviejo 3 Imanol Erviti 4 Rubén Fernández 5 José Herrada 6 Daniel Moreno 7 Nairo Quintana 8 José Joaquín Rojas 9 Rory Sutherland 11 Alberto Contador 12 Daniele Bennati 13 Manuele Boaro 14 Michael Gogl 15 Jesús Hernández 16 Robert Kišerlovski DNS-6 — 17 Sérgio Paulinho 18 Ivan Rovny 19 Yuri Trofimov 21 Chris Froome 22 Ian Boswell 23 Michał Gołaś 24 Peter Kennaugh 25 Christian Knees 26 Leopold König 27 Michał Kwiatkowski DNF-7 — 28 David López 29 Salvatore Puccio 31 Tejay van Garderen DNF-17 — 32 Darwin Atapuma 33 Silvan Dillier 34 Jempy Drucker 35 Philippe Gilbert DNF-14 — 36 Ben Hermans 37 Samuel Sánchez 38 Dylan Teuns 39 Danilo Wyss 41 Steven Kruijswijk DNS-6 — 42 Enrico Battaglin DNF-9 — 43 George Bennett 44 Koen Bouwman 45 Victor Campenaerts 46 Robert Gesink 47 Martijn Keizer 48 Bram Tankink 49 Jos van Emden DNS-17 — 51 Esteban Chaves 52 Sam Bewley 53 Simon Gerrans 54 Jack Haig 55 Damien Howson 56 Jens Keukeleire 57 Magnus Cort Nielsen 58 Svein Tuft 59 Simon Yates 61 Michele Scarponi 62 Dario Cataldo 63 Dmitriy Gruzdev 64 Miguel Ángel López DNF-6 — 65 Davide Malacarne DNF-14 — 66 Luis León Sánchez 67 Gatis Smukulis 68 Alessandro Vanotti 69 Andrey Zeits 71 Kenny Elissonde 72 Odd Christian Eiking 73 Murilo Fischer DNF-5 — 74 Alexandre Geniez 75 Mathieu Ladagnous 76 Johan Le Bon DNF-14 — 77 Lorrenzo Manzin 78 Laurent Pichon DNF-11 — 79 Kévin Reza DNF-10 — 81 Warren Barguil DNF-3 — 82 Nikias Arndt 83 Koen de Kort 84 Johannes Fröhlinger 85 Chad Haga 86 Tobias Ludvigsson 87 Sindre Lunke 88 Tom Stamsnijder 89 Zico Waeytens DNF-13 — 91 Haimar Zubeldia 92 Fumiyuki Beppu 93 Julien Bernard 94 Niccolò Bonifazio DNF-7 — 95 Laurent Didier 96 Fabio Felline 97 Markel Irizar DNF-10 — 98 Kiel Reijnen 99 Riccardo Zoidl 101 Jean-Christophe Péraud 102 Gediminas Bagdonas 103 Jan Bakelants 104 François Bidard 105 Axel Domont 106 Quentin Jaurégui 107 Pierre Latour 108 Sébastien Minard DNS-6 — 109 Christophe Riblon 111 Alberto Losada 112 Sven Erik Bystrøm 113 Pavel Kochetkov 114 Sergey Lagutin 115 Tiago Machado 116 Matvey Mamykin 117 Jhonatan Restrepo 118 Egor Silin 119 Rein Taaramäe DNF-7 — 121 Bart De Clercq 122 Sander Armée 123 Thomas De Gendt 124 Gert Dockx 125 Adam Hansen 126 Maxime Monfort 127 Tosh Van der Sande 128 Louis Vervaeke 129 Jelle Wallays 131 Gianluca Brambilla 132 Maxime Bouet 133 David de la Cruz 134 Yves Lampaert 135 Gianni Meersman 136 Pieter Serry 137 Zdeněk Štybar 138 Niki Terpstra 139 Martin Velits 141 Andrew Talansky 142 Patrick Bevin DNF-11 — 143 Simon Clarke DNS-11 — 144 Joe Dombrowski 145 Davide Formolo 146 Ben King 147 Moreno Moser 148 Pierre Rolland 149 Davide Villella 151 Igor Antón DNS-9 — 152 Nicolas Dougall 153 Tyler Farrar 154 Omar Fraile 155 Nathan Haas 156 Jacques Janse van Rensburg DNS-15 — 157 Merhawi Kudus 158 Kristian Sbaragli 159 Jaco Venter 161 Mathias Frank 162 Clément Chevrier 163 Dries Devenyns 164 Vegard Stake Laengen 165 Simon Pellaud 166 Vicente Reynés DNF-4 — 167 Jonas van Genechten 168 Larry Warbasse 169 Marcel Wyss 171 Louis Meintjes 172 Yukiya Arashiro 173 Mattia Cattaneo 174 Valerio Conti 175 Kristijan Đurasek 176 Mário Costa DNF-17 — 177 Tsgabu Grmay 178 Ilia Koshevoy 179 Federico Zurlo DNF-4 — 181 Luis Ángel Maté 182 Yoann Bagot DNF-9 — 183 Loïc Chetout 184 Jérôme Cousin 185 Romain Hardy 186 Rudy Molard 187 Stéphane Rossetto 188 Florian Sénéchal DNF-12 — 189 Kenneth Vanbilsen DNF-14 — 191 José Mendes 192 Cesare Benedetti 193 Silvio Herklotz DNS-11 — 194 Bartosz Huzarski DNF-10 — 195 Gregor Mühlberger 196 Christoph Pfingsten 197 Michael Schwarzmann 198 Rüdiger Selig 199 Scott Thwaites 201 David Arroyo 202 Pello Bilbao 203 Hugh Carthy 204 José Gonçalves DNF-11 — 205 Ángel Madrazo DNF-14 — 206 Lluís Mas DNS-5 — 207 Sergio Pardilla 208 Eduard Prades 209 Jaime Rosón 211 Romain Sicard 212 Ryan Anderson 213 Lilian Calmejane 214 Romain Cardis 215 Tony Hurel DNF-9 — 216 Fabrice Jeandesboz DNF-12 — 217 Julien Morice 218 Bryan Nauleau 219 Perrig Quéméneur
By team
+ (MOV) No. Rider Pos. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Directeur sportif: José Luis Arrieta+ (TNK) No. Rider Pos. 11 12 13 14 15 16 DNS-6 17 18 19 Directeur sportif: Steven de Jongh + (SKY) No. Rider Pos. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 DNF-7 28 29 Directeur sportif: Dario Cioni + (BMC) No. Rider Pos. 31 DNF-17 32 33 34 35 DNF-14 36 37 38 39 Directeur sportif: Jan Boven + (TLJ) No. Rider Pos. 41 DNS-6 42 DNF-9 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 DNS-17Directeur sportif: + (OBE) No. Rider Pos. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Directeur sportif: Neil Stephens + (AST) No. Rider Pos. 61 62 63 64 DNF-6 65 DNF-14 66 67 68 69 Directeur sportif: Alexandr Shefer + (FDJ) No. Rider Pos. 71 72 73 DNF-5 74 75 76 DNF-14 77 78 DNF-11 79 DNF-10Directeur sportif: Frank Pineau + (TGA) No. Rider Pos. 81 DNF-3 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 DNF-13Directeur sportif: Arthur van Dongen + (TFS) No. Rider Pos. 91 92 93 94 DNF-7 95 96 97 DNF-10 98 99 Directeur sportif: Dirk Demol + (ALM) No. Rider Pos. 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 DNS-6 109 Directeur sportif: Julien Jurdie + (KAT) No. Rider Pos. 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 DNF-7Directeur sportif: José Azevedo + (LTS) No. Rider Pos. 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 Directeur sportif: Mario Aerts + (EQS) No. Rider Pos. 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 Directeur sportif: Rik Van Slycke + (CDT) No. Rider Pos. 141 142 DNF-11 143 DNS-11 144 145 146 147 148 149 Directeur sportif: Bingen Fernández + (DDD) No. Rider Pos. 151 DNS-9 152 153 154 155 156 DNS-15 157 158 159 Directeur sportif: Alex Sans Vega + (IAM) No. Rider Pos. 161 162 163 164 165 166 DNF-4 167 168 169 Directeur sportif: Eddy Seigneur + (LAM) No. Rider Pos. 171 172 173 174 175 176 DNF-17 177 178 179 DNF-4Directeur sportif: Simone Pedrazzini + (COF) No. Rider Pos. 181 182 DNF-9 183 184 185 186 187 188 DNF-12 189 DNF-14Directeur sportif: Christian Guiberteau + (BOA) No. Rider Pos. 191 192 193 DNS-11 194 DNF-10 195 196 197 198 199 Directeur sportif: + (CJR) No. Rider Pos. 201 202 203 204 DNF-11 205 DNF-14 206 DNS-5 207 208 209 Directeur sportif: Eugenio Goikoetxea + (DEN) No. Rider Pos. 211 212 213 214 215 DNF-9 216 DNF-12 217 218 219 Directeur sportif: Dominique Arnould
By nationality The 198 riders that competed in the 2016 Vuelta a España represented 37 countries. Country No. of riders Finishers Stage wins 7 3 1 21 4 (Gianni Meersman ×2, Jonas van Genechten ×1, Jens Keukeleire ×1) 1 2 5 1 (Nairo Quintana) 2 2 1 1 (Magnus Cort Nielsen) 1 1 1 34 2 (Alexandre Geniez ×1, Lilian Calmejane ×1) 7 19 2 (Valerio Conti ×1, Gianluca Brambilla ×1) 2 2 1 1 2 1 (Jempy Drucker) 9 1 (Robert Gesink) 3 4 3 5 6 1 (Sergey Lagutin) 1 4 27 1 (David de la Cruz) 1 5 1 (Mathias Frank) 5 2 (Simon Yates ×1, Chris Froome ×1) 10 Total 198 158 17The team time trial on stage 1, won by , is not counted in this total.
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