2016 Vuelta a España
| 2016 UCI World Tour, race 21 of 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 20 August – 11 September 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,315.4 km (2,060 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Nairo Quintana (COL)
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(Movistar Team) |
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| Second |
 Chris Froome (GBR)
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(Team Sky) | |
| Third |
Esteban Chaves (COL)
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(Orica–BikeExchange) | |
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Points |
 Fabio Felline (ITA)
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(Trek–Segafredo) |
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Mountains |
 Omar Fraile (ESP)
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(Team Dimension Data) |
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Combination |
Nairo Quintana (COL)
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(Movistar Team) |
| Combativity |
Alberto Contador (ESP)
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(Tinkoff) | |
| Team | BMC Racing Team | ||
The 2016 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in Spain between 20 August and 11 September 2016. The race was the 71st edition of the Vuelta a España and the final Grand Tour of the 2016 cycling season.
The race included 21 stages, beginning with a team time trial that started in Ourense. The subsequent stages included 10 summit finishes. The race ended in Madrid.
The overall winner was Nairo Quintana of team Movistar, with Chris Froome (Team Sky) second and Esteban Chaves (Orica–BikeExchange) third.
The eighteen UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and obliged to attend the race. The organiser of the Vuelta, Unipublic, was also able to invite four UCI Professional Continental teams – the second tier of professional cycling teams – as wildcards.
The teams entering the race were:
World Tour teams
Professional Continental teams
The route of the 2016 Vuelta was announced on 9 January 2016. In contrast to the two previous editions of the Vuelta, which had begun in Andalusia, this edition spent its first week in Galicia in the north-west of Spain. The first stage was a team time trial to Castrelo de Miño. The first significant climb of the race was at the end of the third stage, which was the first of ten summit finishes in the race. The route travelled through Asturias before coming to the Basque Country; the fourteenth stage, described by Cyclingnews.com as the hardest of the race, took place mainly just across the border in France. The route continued down the eastern coast of Spain over the next few days, with several mountainous stages, with the race's only individual time trial coming on stage 19. One more mountainous stage followed, finishing on the Alto de Aitana, before the riders travelled to Madrid for the closing stage on a circuit in the city centre.
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