1984 Vuelta a España
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| Dates | 17 April – 6 May | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 19 + Prologue, including 1 split stage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,593 km (2,233 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 90h 08' 03" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Éric Caritoux (FRA)
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(Skil-Sem-Mavic-Reydel) |
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| Second |
 Alberto Fernández Blanco (ESP)
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(Zor-Gemeaz) | |
| Third |
 Raimund Dietzen (GER)
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(Teka) | |
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Points |
 Guido Van Calster (BEL)
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(Del Tongo) |
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Mountains |
Felipe Yáñez (ESP)
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(Orbea) |
| Youth |
 Edgar Corredor (COL)
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(Teka) | |
| Sprints |
Jozef Lieckens (BEL)
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(Safir) | |
| Team | Teka | ||
The 39th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from April 17 to May 6, 1984. It consisted of 19 stages covering a total of 3,593 km, and was won by Éric Caritoux of the Skil-Sem cycling team. Caritoux, a second year professional, had shown his climbing talent earlier that year by winning the stage up the Mont-Ventoux of the 1984 Paris–Nice but he did not enter the 1984 Vuelta a Espana thinking of the overall classification. On the 12th stage to Lagos de Covadonga an area in Asturias which includes one of the most important climbs of the Vuelta, Caritoux finished second behind the German Raimund Dietzen who was also riding his first Vuelta a España. Caritoux took the leader’s jersey from Pedro Delgado. Alberto Fernández was 32 seconds behind Caritoux in the general classification at that stage. Fernández had been third the year previously in the Vuelta a España and in the Giro d'Italia. On the stage 14 mountain time trial, Caritoux lost five seconds. Caritoux lost further time in the final individual time trial but still managed to finish the race with a slender lead of six seconds over Fernández, the smallest margin in the history of the Vuelta a España. Fernández died later on in 1984.
Thirteen teams were invited by the race organizers to participate in the 1984 edition of the Vuelta a España, six of which were based outside of Spain. Each team sent a squad of team riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 130 cyclists. From the riders that began the race, 97 made it to the finish in Madrid.
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