Tour de France 2014/15. stage
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Alexander Kristoff (KAT) |
4:56:43 h
(44.9 km / h) |
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Heinrich Haussler (IAM) | + 0:00 min |
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Peter Sagan (CAN) | + 0:00 min |
| 4th |
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André Greipel (LTB) | + 0:00 min |
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Mark Renshaw (OPQ) | + 0:00 min |
| 6th |
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Bryan Coquard (EUC) | + 0:00 min |
| 7th |
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Ramūnas Navardauskas (GRS) | + 0:00 min |
| 8th. |
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Romain Feillu (BSE) | + 0:00 min |
| 9. |
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Michael Albasini (OGE) | + 0:00 min |
| 10. |
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Jack Bauer (GRS) | + 0:00 min |
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Martin Elmiger (IAM) | |
| Intermediate results after the 15th stage | |||
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Vincenzo Nibali (AST) | 66:49:37 h |
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Alejandro Valverde (MOV) | + 4:37 min |
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Romain Bardet (ALM) | + 4:50 min |
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Peter Sagan (CAN) | 402 pts. |
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Bryan Coquard (EUC) | 226 pts. |
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Alexander Kristoff (KAT) | 217 pts. |
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Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT) | 88 pts. |
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Rafał Majka (TCS) | 88 pts. |
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Vincenzo Nibali (AST) | 86 pts. |
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Romain Bardet (ALM) | 66:54:27 h |
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Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) | + 0:16 min |
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Michał Kwiatkowski (OPQ) | + 14:34 min |
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Ag2r La Mondiale | 200: 46: 47 h |
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Belkin-Pro Cycling Team | + 12:42 min |
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Team Sky | + 38:32 min |
The 15th stage of the Tour de France 2014 took place on July 20, 2014 and led from Tallard over 222 km to Nîmes . In the course of the stage there was an intermediate sprint after 175.5 km. This meant that the stage counted as a flat stage; 171 riders started.
Race course
Immediately after the start, Martin Elmiger (IAM) and Jack Bauer (GRS) drove out of the main field. After 13 kilometers they had gained a lead of three minutes, four kilometers later it had grown to around 5:30 minutes. The peloton let the two go very far, Bauer and Elmiger were 30 kilometers after the start around 8:30 minutes before the yellow jersey. A faster pace of the peloton reduces the gap to about six minutes.
The stage had previously been classified as difficult to drive due to the possibility of wind edges , due to the wind the main field was sometimes quite long, some drivers withdrew many. The wind also bothered the outliers, their lead shrank steadily, to around 3:30 minutes after 150 kilometers and a little later to just two minutes. At the rear, teams Ag2r, FDJ and BMC rode much more aggressively than at the beginning of the stage. After the intermediate sprint won by Elmiger, the outliers managed to briefly stabilize the lead. With 25 kilometers to go, both had a lead of 1:40 minutes. Ten kilometers later they were still a minute ahead. In the main field, the sprinter teams took over the chase work again and reduced the lead of the two leaders to ten seconds, one kilometer from the finish.
Elmiger and Bauer were in front for almost the entire 222 kilometers of the third longest tour stage, but the stage win was won by Alexander Kristoff (KAT) from Norway, who was able to overtake Bauer about 20 meters from the finish. Bauer was tenth, Elmiger was 16th.
Scoring
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Web links
- Ratings of the 15th stage
- Race course (see dispatches)