Dates 2 - 24 September Distance 3,750 km (2,330 mi) Winner Laurent Jalabert (FRA) | Stages 21 + Prologue Winning time 95h 30' 33" Second Abraham Olano (ESP) | |
The 50th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from September 2 to September 24, 1995. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 3750 km, and was won by Laurent Jalabert of the ONCE cycling team. Jalabert won the three classification competitions – the general classification, the points classification and the mountains classification being only the third rider (after Eddy Merckx in the 1968 Giro d'Italia and the 1969 Tour de France, and Tony Rominger in the 1993 Vuelta a España) to win all three classifications in a Grand Tour.
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1995 Vuelta a España Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA