After a first day of rest, the Vuelta riders start the second week with a time trial.
Place in the only stopwatch of this Tour of Spain this Tuesday, September 5 with 25.8 kilometers on the program in the streets of Valladolid. No major difficulties are to be reported, the timer promises to be very fast and perfect for the specialists. Note, however, a small hill and many turns in the first 10 kilometers. Among the favorites of the day, unsurprisingly, we will find the Italian Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), his Spanish teammate Jonathan Castroviejo, Stefan Bissegger (EF-Education-EasyPost), Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo Visma), but above all the reigning world champion and favorite of this Vuelta, Remco Evenepoel.
Overall leader Sepp Kuss can hope to keep his red leader’s jersey even if he doesn’t really know what to expect until the end of the Vuelta as he explained in a press briefing on Monday 4 September. “The team don’t have unrealistic expectations of me and I don’t feel any pressure even for this time trial. It’s not like it’s the last stage of this Vuelta. I just have to believe in me and then we’ll see what can be done my last wind tunnel test was a few years ago and this year i’ve only ridden my time trial bike during the Giro, Le Tour and approaching La Vuelta for the team time trial. So I don’t know what to expect, but I believe in myself”
Here is the stage classification and the general classification of the Vuelta, updated at the end of each stage:
The Vuelta traditionally takes place after the Tour de France. For its 78th edition, the start of the Tour of Spain has been scheduled for August 26, of Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, more than a month after the arrival of the Tour de France (July 23). The finish of the Tour of Spain was set three weeks later, on September 17, in Madrid.
Holder of the TV rights to the French and Italian classics as well as the three major tours (Giro, Tour de France, Vuelta), the group Eurosport has been appointed to broadcast all the stages of the Tour of Spain 2023 on its channels.
Here is the start list of the Vuelta 2023 with the competing teams and the list of riders on the starting line.
A route marked by the mountains and which leaves little room for mass arrivals… Here is the detail of the route of the Tour of Spain 2023 with the full map:
After a team time trial of 14 kilometers from the seaside of the Barcelona city, the Tour of Spain will end on the Hippodrome de la Zarzuela, in Madrid. The list of steps:
- 1st stage – Saturday August 26: Barcelona – Barcelona, 23.3 km (team time trial)
- 2nd stage – Sunday August 27: Mataró – Barcelona, 181.3 km
- 3rd stage – Monday August 28: Suria – Arinsal (Andorra), 158.5 km
- 4th stage – Tuesday August 29: Andorra la Vella (Andorra) – Tarragona, 183.4 km
- 5th stage – Wednesday August 30: Morella – Burriana, 185.7 km
- 6th stage – Thursday August 31: Vall D’Uixó – Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory, 181.3 km
- 7th stage – Friday September 1: Utiel – Oliva, 188.8 km
- 8th stage – Saturday September 2: Dénia – Xorret de Catí, 164.8 km
- 9th stage – Sunday September 3: Cartagena – Caravaca de la Cruz, 180.9 km
- *** First rest day – Monday, September 4 ***
- 10th stage – Tuesday September 5: Valladolid – Valladolid, 25 km (individual time trial)
- 11th stage – Wednesday September 6: Lerma – La Laguna Negra, Vinuesa, 163.2 km
- 12th stage – Thursday September 7: Ólvega – Zaragoza, 165.4 km
- 13th stage – Friday September 8: Formigal – Col du Tourmalet (France), 134.7 km
- 14th stage – Saturday September 9: Sauveterre-de-Béarn (France) – Larra-Belagua, 161.7 km
- 15th stage – Sunday September 10: Pamplona – Lekunberri, 156.5 km
- *** Second rest day – Monday, September 11 ***
- 16th stage – Tuesday September 12: Liencres Playa – Bejes, 119.7 km
- 17th stage – Wednesday September 13: Ribadesella – Col del Angliru, 122.6 km
- 18th stage – Thursday September 14: Pola de Allande – La Cruz de Linares, 178.9 km
- 19th stage – Friday September 15: La Bañeza – Íscar, 177.4 km
- 20th stage – Saturday September 16: Manzanares El Real – Guadarrama, 208.4 km
- 21st stage – Sunday September 17: Hippodrome de la Zarzuela – Madrid, 101 km