Cycling – fastest major Tour time trial over 20 km
- Who
- Rubén Plaza Molina
- What
- 56.218 kilometre(s) per hour
- Where
- Spain
- When
- 17 September 2005
Rubén Plaza Molina (Spain), riding for team Comunidad Valenciana–Puerta Castalla, averaged a record 56.218 km/h (34.9322 mph) over the 38.9-km (24.1-mile) time trial from Guadalajara to Alcalá de Henares in the 2005 Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain)on 17 September 2005, the fastest time trial in any of the three big tours (Italy, France, Spain).
In time trials under 20 km in the major tours, the Belgian rider Rik Verbrugghe won the 7.6 km Giro d´Italia prologue in 2001 with an average speed of 58.874 km/h