The 1st edition of Vuelta a España

Vuelta a España

The Vuelta a España is a three-week road bicycle racing stage race that is one of the three "Grand Tours" of Europe and part of the UCI World Ranking calendar. The race lasts three weeks and attracts cyclists from around the world. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages...

took place April 29 to May 15, 1935, and consisted of 14 stages and 3425 km, the winning average speed was 28.54 km/h. The Vuelta began and ended in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

Spain

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The field consisted of 50 riders including 32 Spanish riders; 29 finished the race. The weather conditions (rainy and cold) were said to have been to the advantage of the Belgian riders. Belgian

Belgium

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 Gustaaf Deloor

Gustaaf Deloor

Gustaaf Deloor was a Belgian road racing cyclist and the winner of the first two editions of the Vuelta a España in 1935 and 1936. The 1936 edition remains the longest winning finish time of the Vuelta in 150:07:54, the race consisted of 22 stages with a total length of 4,407 km...

 took the leaders jersey with nine minutes advantage on the third stage. Deloor was challenged by Mariano Canardo

Mariano Cañardo

Mariano Cañardo Lacasta was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. Cañardo has won a record seven editions of the Volta a Catalunya...

. However on the thirteenth stage, Canardo crashed and lost five minutes. On the final stage Deloor displayed panache to attack and win the stage and the General Classification

General Classification

The general classification in bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for bicycle riders in multi-stage bicycle races...

 into Madrid.

Stages

Stage results

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	29 April	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...  – Valladolid Valladolid Valladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...	185 km (115 mi)
2	30 April	Valladolid – Santander	251 km (156 mi)
3	2 May	Santander – Bilbao Bilbao Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...	199 km (124 mi)
4	3 May	Bilbao – San Sebastián San Sebastián Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its...	235 km (146 mi)
5	4 May	San Sebastián – Zaragoza Zaragoza Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...	264 km (164 mi)
6	5 May	Zaragoza – Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...	310 km (193 mi)
7	7 May	Barcelona – Tortosa Tortosa -External links:* *** * * *...	188 km (117 mi)
8	8 May	Tortosa – Valencia	188 km (117 mi)
9	9 May	Valenica – Murcia Murcia -History:It is widely believed that Murcia's name is derived from the Latin words of Myrtea or Murtea, meaning land of Myrtle , although it may also be a derivation of the word Murtia, which would mean Murtius Village...	265 km (165 mi)
10	10 May	Murcia – Granada Granada Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...	285 km (177 mi)
11	11 May	Granada – Sevilla	260 km (162 mi)
12	13 May	Sevilla – Cáceres Cáceres, Spain Cáceres is the capital of the same name province, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. , its population was 91,131 inhabitants. The municipio has a land area of 1,750.33 km², and is the largest in geographical extension in Spain....	270 km (168 mi)
13	14 May	Cáceres – Zamora Zamora, Spain Zamora is a city in Castile and León, Spain, the capital of the province of Zamora. It lies on a rocky hill in the northwest, near the frontier with Portugal and crossed by the Duero river, which is some 50 km downstream as it reaches the Portuguese frontier...	275 km (171 mi)
14	15 May	Zamora – Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...	250 km (155 mi)

General classification

Final general classification

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1		Colin–Wolber
2		Orbea
3		Colin–Wolber
4		Oscar Egg
5		—
6		Colin–Wolber
7		Tendil
8		Helyett–Hutchinson
9		—
10		—

Mountains classification

Final mountains classification

Rank	Rider	Team	Points
1		—	68
2		—	68
3		Colin–Wolber	51