The last grand tour of the year, La Vuelta ciclista a España will be held between 19th August and 11th September 2022.
The race will start in Utrecht and as usual nowadays, there will be three stages in the host country, Netherlands, before the first rest day.
After back to Spain, the usual La Vuelta program is waiting for the riders with lots of steep mountains, like
Ascensión al Pico Jano (6th stage)
Colláu Fancuaya (8th stage)
Peñas Blancas (12th stage)
Sierra de La Pandera (14th stage)
Alto Hoya de la Mora (15th stage)ñ
Puerto de Navacerrada (20th stage)
According to the current plans (latest update 24th July 2022) we will see in the peloton (among others) :
Giro d’Italia winner Jai Hindley (Bora-hansgrohe),
the winner of the last three editions of La Vuelta, Primoz Roglic (Jumbo Visma)
2-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
ex World Champion Alejando Valverde (Movistar)
Giro d’Italia winner (2019) and current Olympic Champion Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers)
winner of all the three grand tours at least once, Vincenzo Nibali (Astana)
4-time Tour de France winner, also Giro and Vuelta winner Chris Froome (Israel Premier Tech)
Ben O’Connor (Ag2r-Citroën)
World Champion Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team)
Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team)
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal)
Esteban Chaves (EF Education-EasyPost)
Giro d’Italia (2014) and Vuelta a Espana (2016)winner Nairo Quitana (Arkea Samsic)
Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious)