Vuelta a Espana 2024: Complete Schedule, Stage Details and More

The last of the three acclaimed races in men’s cycling, the Vuelta a Espana, will conclude the Grand Tour in its esteemed fashion. The 79th edition has an arduous route that covers 3,304 km in a span of 21 days. With an elevated climb of 52,279m, it’s heading out to be a challenging race where the cyclists’ grit will see them through.

The Vuelta a Espana commenced on Saturday, August 17, in Lisbon, Portugal for the first time since 1997. It’s set to conclude in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on Sunday, September 8. Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, the two cycling stars, have opted to sit this one out. But the race is still raging with other talent like defending champion Sepp Kuss, treble Vuelta victor Primoz Roglic, winner of Tour de Suisse Adam Yates, and many more.

Now, before we give you a quick recap of the first three stages that have concluded quite eventfully, let’s check the start list and complete schedule of this race.

Vuelta a Espana 2024: Start List

Here is the complete start list of racers who have participated in the Vuelta a Espana 2024. 

Alpecin-Deceuninck: Maurice Ballerstedt, Kaden Groves, Quinten Hermans, Juri Hollmann, Xandro Meurisse, Edward Planckaert, Oscar Riesebeek, Luca Vergallito

Arkea-B&B Hotels: Elie Gesbert, Thibault Guernalec, Simon Guglielmi, Laurens Huys, Mathis Le Berre, Lukasz Owsian, Michel Ries, Cristian Rodriguez

Astana Qazaqstan: Gleb Brussenskiy, Lorenzo Fortunato, Gianmarco Garofoli, Martin Lopez, Ide Schelling, Harold Tejada, Santiago Umba, Nicolas Vinokurov

Bahrain Victoriois: Damiano Caruso, Kamil Gradek, Jack Haig, Rainer Kepplinger, Fran Miholjevic, Jasha Sutterlin, Antonio Tiberi, Torstein Traeen

Cofidis: Thomas Champion, Bryan Coquard, Kenny Elissonde, Ruben Fernandez, Jesus Herrada, Ion Izagirre, Jonathan Lastra, Guillaume Martin

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale: Bruno Armirail, Clement Berthet, Geoffrey Bouchard, Sander De Pestel, Felix Gall, Victor Lafay, Ben O’Connor, Valentin Paret-Peintre

dsm-firmenich PostNL: Pavel Bittner, Chris Hamilton, Gijs Leemreize, Enzo Leijnse, Tim Naberman, Max Poole, Martijn Tusveld, Julius van den Berg

EF Education-Easypost: Richard Carapaz, Alexander Cepeda, Rui Costa, Owain Douul, Darren Rafferty, James Shaw, Harry Sweeny, Rigoberto Uran

Equipo Kern Pharma: Urko Berrade, Pablo Castrillo, Jorge Gutierrez, Unai Iribar, Pau Miquel Delgado, Jose Felix Parra, Ibon Ruiz, Antonio Soto

Euskaltel-Euskadi: Jon Aberasturi, Xavier Berasategi, Mikel Bizkarra, Joan Bou, Xabier Isasa, Txomin Juaristi, Gotzon Martin, Luis Angel Mate

Groupama-FDJ: Sven Erik Bystrom, David Gaudu, Kevin Geniets, Lorenzo Germani, Stefan Kung, Quentin Pacher, Remy Rochas, Reuben Thompson

Jayco-AlUla: Welay Berhe, Alessandro De Marchi, Eddie Dunbar, Felix Engelhardt, Chris Harper, Mauro Schmid, Callum Scotson, Filippo Zana

Ineos Grenadiers: Thymen Arensman, Laurens De Plus, Kim Heiduk, Jhonnatan Narvaez, Brandon Rivera, Carlos Rodriguez, Oscar Rodriguez, Josh Tarling

Intermarche-Wanty: Vito Braet, Kobe Goossens, Arne Marit, Louis Meintjes, Tom Paquot, Simone Petilli, Lorenzo Rota, Rein Taaramae

Israel-Premier Tech: George Bennett, Marco Frigo, Nadav Raisberg, Matthew Riccitello, Riley Sheehan, Corbin Strong, Dylan Teuns, Michael Woods

Lidl-Trek: Giulio Ciccone, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Patrick Konrad, Sam Oomen, Mattias Skjelmose, Mathias Vacek, Otto Vergaerde, Carlos Verona

Lotto-Dstny: Victor Campenaerts, Thomas De Gendt, Jonas Gregaard, Andreas Kron, Arjen Livyns, Sylvain Moniquet, Eduardo Sepulveda, Lennert Van Eetvelt

Movistar: Jorge Arcas, Carlos Canal, Oier Lazkano, Enric Mas, Nelson Oliveira, Nairo Quintana, Einer Rubio, Pelayo Sanchez

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe: Roger Adria, Giovanni Aleotti, Nico Denz, Patrick Gamper, Florian Lipowitz, Dani Martinez, Primoz Roglic, Aleksandr Vlasov

Soudal Quick-Step: Kasper Asgreen, Mattia Cattaneo, James Knox, Mikel Landa, William Junior Lecerf, Casper Pedersen, Mauri Vansevenant, Louis Vervaeke

Visma-Lease a Bike: Edoardo Affini, Robert Gesink, Steven Kruijswijk, Sepp Kuss, Cian Uijtdebroeks, Attila Valter, Wout Van Aert, Dylan van Baarle

UAE Team Emirates: Joao Almeida, Filippo Baroncini, Isaac del Toro, Brandon McNulty, Pavel Sivakov, Marc Soler, Jay Vine, Adam Yates

Vuelta a Espana 2024: Detailed Schedule and Route

Let’s take a closer look at the detailed schedule along with the route. Viewers in the UK can watch the Vuelta a Espana on Eurosport 1 and 2, or live stream on discovery+. 

Vuelta a Espana 2024: The Race So Far

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The gruelling race has kicked off and completed the first three stages with sweat and triumph underneath the hot Portuguese skies. Here’s a quick recap of stages 1, 2 and 3.

Stage 1: Brandon McNulty from the UAE Team Emirates, displayed a stroke of brilliance and clinched the first red jersey, leading the 2024 race. His name also went down in history as he won the fastest time trial ever seen in the Spanish Grand Tour in a time of 12:35. It was a close competition as Lidl-Trek’s Mathias Vacek and Belgium’s Wout van Aert were just two and three seconds slower, respectively.

Stage 2: Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Kaden Groves prevailed in a passion-packed finale of the second stage. Ourém saw the Australian sprint his way past Visma-Lease a Bike’s Wout Van Aert who held the red leader’s jersey, La Roja, after claiming the bonus seconds. While Groves nailed his fifth stage win, Van Aert debuted in this race and took his fifth Grand Tour leader jersey after Tour de France in 2022.

Stage 3: The unstoppable Van Aert triumphed in the third stage, marking an electrifying feat in his Grand Tour career as he conquered his tenth stage win. Castelo Branco also saw Kaden Groves come in second while the third place was grabbed by Euskaltel-Euskadi’s Jon Aberasturi, in the bunch finish.

The fourth stage is set to begin from the fierce Spanish terrain that will bring forth new challenges to the contenders. It has drawn much curiosity as to whether cycling fans will see nail-biting stage wins or a straight-out victor.

Here are the betting odds for the Vuelta a Espana 2024 as per 7bet. 

Please note that the odds are accurate as per the publishing time of the article.

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