Tour de France 2014/15. stage

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Stage winner NorwayNorway Alexander Kristoff (KAT) 4:56:43 h

(44.9 km / h)

2. AustraliaAustralia Heinrich Haussler (IAM) + 0:00 min
3. SlovakiaSlovakia Peter Sagan (CAN) + 0:00 min
4th GermanyGermany André Greipel (LTB) + 0:00 min
5. AustraliaAustralia Mark Renshaw (OPQ) + 0:00 min
6th FranceFrance Bryan Coquard (EUC) + 0:00 min
7th LithuaniaLithuania Ramūnas Navardauskas (GRS) + 0:00 min
8th. FranceFrance Romain Feillu (BSE) + 0:00 min
9. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Michael Albasini (OGE) + 0:00 min
10. New ZealandNew Zealand Jack Bauer (GRS) + 0:00 min
most combative driver   SwitzerlandSwitzerland Martin Elmiger (IAM)
Intermediate results after the 15th stage
Overall rating ItalyItaly Vincenzo Nibali (AST) 66:49:37 h
2. SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde (MOV) + 4:37 min
3. FranceFrance Romain Bardet (ALM) + 4:50 min
Scoring SlovakiaSlovakia Peter Sagan (CAN) 402 pts.
2. FranceFrance Bryan Coquard (EUC) 226 pts.
3. NorwayNorway Alexander Kristoff (KAT) 217 pts.
Mountain scoring SpainSpain Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT) 88 pts.
2. PolandPoland Rafał Majka (TCS) 88 pts.
3. ItalyItaly Vincenzo Nibali (AST) 86 pts.
Young talent evaluation FranceFrance Romain Bardet (ALM) 66:54:27 h
2. FranceFrance Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) + 0:16 min
3. PolandPoland Michał Kwiatkowski (OPQ) + 14:34 min
Team ranking FranceFrance Ag2r La Mondiale 200: 46: 47 h
2. NetherlandsNetherlands Belkin-Pro Cycling Team + 12:42 min
3. United StatesUnited States 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

The escape duo with Jack Bauer and Martin Elmiger

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

Intermediate sprint
in La Galine
after 175.5 km at 70  m
1. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Martin Elmiger (IAM) 20 pts.
2. New ZealandNew Zealand Jack Bauer (GRS) 17 pts.
3. FranceFrance Bryan Coquard (EUC) 15 pts.
4th AustraliaAustralia Mark Renshaw (OPQ) 13 pts.
5. SlovakiaSlovakia Peter Sagan (CAN) 11 pts.
6th FranceFrance Sylvain Chavanel (IAM) 10 pts.
7th ItalyItaly Elia Viviani (CAN) 9 pts.
8th. UkraineUkraine Andrij Hrywko (AST) 8 pts.
9. PolandPoland Maciej Bodnar (CAN) 7 pts.
10. United StatesUnited States Christopher Horner (LAM) 6 pts.
11. KazakhstanKazakhstan Maxim Iglinski (AST) 5 pts.
12. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Michael Schär (BMC) 4 pts.
13. KazakhstanKazakhstan Dmitri Grusdew (AST) 3 pts.
14th PolandPoland Bartosz Huzarski (TNE) 2 pts.
15th GermanyGermany Marcus Burghardt (BMC) 1 point
Milestone
in Nimes
after 222.0 kilometers in 46  m
1. NorwayNorway Alexander Kristoff (KAT) 45 pts.
2. AustraliaAustralia Heinrich Haussler (IAM) 35 pts.
3. SlovakiaSlovakia Peter Sagan (CAN) 30 pts.
4th GermanyGermany André Greipel (LTB) 26 pts.
5. AustraliaAustralia Mark Renshaw (OPQ) 22 pts.
6th FranceFrance Bryan Coquard (EUC) 20 pts.
7th LithuaniaLithuania Ramūnas Navardauskas (GRS) 18 pts.
8th. FranceFrance Romain Feillu (BSE) 16 pts.
9. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Michael Albasini (OGE) 14 pts.
10. New ZealandNew Zealand Jack Bauer (GRS) 12 pts.
11. GermanyGermany Marcel Kittel (GIA) 10 pts.
12. AustriaAustria Bernhard Eisel (SKY) 8 pts.
13. FranceFrance Samuel Dumoulin (ALM) 6 pts.
14th SpainSpain José Joaquín Rojas Gil (MOV) 4 pts.
15th NetherlandsNetherlands Niki Terpstra (OPQ) 2 pts.

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