Tour de France 2015
| Tour de France 2015 | |
| Racing series | UCI WorldTour |
| Host country |
 France Netherlands Belgium 
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| Competition period | July 4th to July 26th |
| Stages | 21st |
| overall length | 3360.3 km |
| Starting field |
198 from 32 nations in 22 teams (160 of them arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Chris Froome 84:46:14 h 2. Nairo Quintana + 1:12 min 3. Alejandro Valverde + 5:25 min  
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| Team evaluation |
Movistar Team 255: 24: 24 h
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| Scoring jerseys | |
 Overall rating
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Chris Froome
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 Scoring
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 Peter Sagan
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 Mountain scoring
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Chris Froome
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 Young talent evaluation
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Nairo Quintana
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 Most combative driver
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Romain Bardet
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| course | |
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| ← 2014 | 2016 → |
The 2015 Tour de France was the 102nd edition of the most important stage cycle race in the world. It led over 3360 kilometers and 21 stages through the Netherlands , Belgium and France . After starting in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on July 4, 2015, it ended on July 26, according to tradition, on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris .
Overall winner was the Briton Chris Froome , who achieved his second Tour victory after 2013. The Colombian Nairo Quintana and the Spaniard Alejandro Valverde followed in second and third place overall .
Starting position
Composition of the field of participants
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198 drivers in 22 teams of nine starters each took part in the tour. The participants came from 32 nations. Traditionally, the tour's home country provided the largest contingent. 41 French took part in the tour. France was followed by the Netherlands with 20 drivers, Italy with 16, Spain with 15 and Belgium with 11 athletes. Ten racing drivers each came from Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. There were also three Austrians at the start.
Italian Matteo Tosatto , born on May 14, 1974, was the oldest starter of the 2015 Tour de France at the age of 41. Tosatto drove his first tour of France in 1997 and took part in it for the eleventh time in 2015. In previous years, the age record was always held by the German Jens Voigt , who ended his career at the end of the 2014 season. The 21-year-old Eritrean Merhawi Kudus (born January 23, 1994) was the youngest starter in the field. The French Florian Sénéchal turned 22 on July 10, 2015 during the 7th stage. The average age of the tour participants was 29.2 years. In the evaluation of the young drivers born in 1990 and later, 32 athletes, about 16 percent of the field.
Teams and drivers
The 17 UCI WorldTeams took part in the 2015 Tour de France . In addition, the organizer ASO has invited five further UCI Professional Continental Teams . For the first time since the Tour de France 2010 , a Pro or WorldTour team driving under a German license took part in the Tour of France . The last time there were two German teams was the 2008 edition . The Swiss team IAM took part in the tour for the second time after 2014. With MTN-Qhubeka , a team from South Africa started for the first time.
WorldTeams
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Ag2r La Mondiale (ALM)
- → Start and results list
- Last year's runner-up Jean-Christophe Péraud and last year's sixth Romain Bardet competed as captains for the team in the overall standings. Christophe Riblon was named the most aggressive driver at the 2013 Tour. In the previous year ag2r won the team championship of the tour.
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Astana Pro Team (AST) - → Start and results list
- The Kazakh Astana team started the race with defending champion Vincenzo Nibali from Italy. Nibali became Italian champion in 2015 and was supported by Jakob Fuglsang , Tanel Kangert and the winner of the Giro d'Italia 2011 , Michele Scarponi , among others .
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BMC Racing Team (BMC) - → Start and results list
- The captain of the BMC team was the American Tejay van Garderen , twice fifth in the Tour participations in 2012 and 2014 and world champion in the team time trial in 2014. With Samuel Sánchez , a multiple top ten driver started for the team in the Grand Tours. Damiano Caruso was among the top ten in the last two big country tours. Daniel Oss, for example, was an option for sprints on flatter stages .
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Etixx-Quick Step (EQS)
- → Start and results list
- The Pole Michał Kwiatkowski started as reigning champion in his country's individual time trial and as world champion in the road race in 2014 . Rigoberto Urán from Colombia came second twice in the Giro d'Italia. The 25-time Tour stage winner Mark Cavendish started as the sprint for the Belgian team. From a German point of view, the time trial specialist Tony Martin should also be mentioned.
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FDJ (FDJ)
- → Start and results list
- Last year Thibaut Pinot achieved the bronze rank and won the junior ranking; he was the most promising driver of the team sponsored by the French lottery company. He was supported, for example, by Alexandre Geniez , who was ninth in the Giro d'Italia this year. On flat stages, Arnaud Démare had a chance to intervene in sprint decisions.
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IAM Cycling (IAM) - → Start and results list
- The captain of the Swiss team was Mathias Frank, who contested his second Tour de France and was particularly successful in the Tour de Suisse in previous years. The Austrian time trial specialist Matthias Brändle and the French veteran Sylvain Chavanel will also start . Chavanel took part in the tour for the 15th time.
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Team Katusha (KAT) - → Start and results list
- Joaquim Rodríguez , the Spanish captain of the Russian team, achieved bronze in 2013, his best result to date at a Tour de France. In the run-up to the tour, Rodríguez won the Tour of the Basque Country . In the sprint area, Alexander Kristoff from Norway was second in the points classification behind Peter Sagan last year.
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Lampre-Merida (LAM) - → Start and results list
- The team started the tour with Rui Costa , three-time winner of the Tour de Suisse and three-time Tour stage winner, as captain. Rubén Plaza has already made it into the top ten at the Tour of Spain and won a stage there. With Nélson Oliveira , the reigning Portuguese champion in the individual time trial was also part of the Italian team.
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Lotto Soudal (LTS)
- → Start and results list
- The French Tony Gallopin wore the yellow jersey for one day for his Belgian team last year. André Greipel from Germany had won at least one flat stage in the sprint on every tour of France since 2011. Lars Bak from Denmark and Greg Henderson from Australia were also part of the nine-person team .
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Movistar Team (MOV)
- → Start and results list
- The Spanish Movistar team's squad included Colombian Nairo Quintana, the winner of the 2014 Giro d'Italia and runner-up in the 2013 Tour, and Alejandro Valverde, one of the most successful racing drivers of recent years, who was also about to start the tour led the UCI WorldTour drivers' championship . Also represented in the team were the Spaniard Gorka Izagirre and the Italian Adriano Malori .
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Orica GreenEdge (OGE) - → Start and results list
- With Luke Durbridge and Svein Tuft time trial specialists as well as Michael Matthews, the Australian team had a candidate for victory in more demanding flat stages in the tour line-up. The team already won the team time trial at the 2015 Giro, which was the 9th stage of the Tour.
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Team Sky (SKY)
- → Start and results list
- The British Team Sky, led by the 2013 Tour winner, Chris Froome , joined the team with Richie Porte , who was very successful at the start of the season, and Leopold König , who was seventh and sixth of the 2015 Giro . Froome won the Tour of Andalusia and the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2015 .
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Team Cannondale-Garmin (TCG)
- → Start and results list
- Andrew Talansky was already tenth in the 2013 Tour de France and seventh in the 2012 Vuelta and started the race as the reigning American champion in the individual time trial. He was supported by Ryder Hesjedal , winner of the Giro 2012, and Daniel Martin , among others, in completing the tour . Martin won a stage on the tour in 2013.
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Tinkoff Saxo (TCS)
- → Start and results list
- Team leader Alberto Contador has already won the Tour twice, as well as the Vuelta a España in 2014 and the Giro d'Italia in 2015. He was supported by two-time Giro winner Ivan Basso , Roman Kreuziger and Michael Rogers, among others . Mountain specialist Rafał Majka and the three-time winner of the green jersey of the Tour de France, Peter Sagan , also drove for the Russian team .
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Trek Factory Racing (TFR)
- → Start and results list
- The American team started the race with Bauke Mollema and Haimar Zubeldia . Both were among the top ten last year, Zubeldia in eighth and Mollema in tenth. Also in the squad was the multiple time trial world champion and time trial Olympic champion from 2008 Fabian Cancellara from Switzerland. Julián Arredondo won the mountain classification at the 2014 Giro.
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Team Giant-Alpecin (TGA) - → Start and results list
- The only German UCI WorldTeam went into the 2015 Tour de France with John Degenkolb as sprint leader in the absence of the weak Marcel Kittel . In 2015 Degenkolb won two classics with Milan – Sanremo and Paris – Roubaix . Tom Dumoulin from the Netherlands was a candidate for victory in the opening time trial.
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Team Lotto NL-Jumbo (TLJ)
- → Start and results list
- Robert Gesink , Wilco Kelderman , Steven Kruijswijk and Laurens ten Dam have already placed in the top ten of one of the Grand Tours, most recently Kruijswijk achieved seventh place in the 2015 Giro. In 2015, Kelderman became Dutch champion in the individual time trial.
Professional Continental Teams
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Bora Argon 18 (BOA)
- → Start and results list
- Last year, the German team, Leopold König, placed a driver in seventh place overall. After switching to Sky, Dominik Nerz took on the role of captain together with sprinter Sam Bennett in 2015 . In addition, with Bartosz Huzarski the Polish champion in the individual time trial and with Emanuel Buchmann the German champion on the road were on the team's starting list.
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Brittany-Séché Environnement (BSE)
- → Start and results list
- In the battle for stage wins, the French team relied primarily on Pierrick Fédrigo , who has already won a stage in the Tour four times. With Eduardo Sepúlveda and Brice Feillu there were two good mountain riders in the squad. The Argentine Sepúlveda was the only non-French in the tour line-up of the team that was nominated for the second time.
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Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (COF)
- → Start and results list
- The French Cofidis team wanted above all to fight for stage wins on flat stages with the sprinter Nacer Bouhanni, who was under contract this season . To support him, among others, Christophe Laporte and Geoffrey Soupe were put to the side as drivers. In the mountain stages, Daniel Navarro should place well in the overall standings.
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Team Europcar (EUC)
- → Start and results list
- The Europcar team competed exclusively with French drivers, the most famous of whom were Pierre Rolland and Thomas Voeckler . In 2011, Rolland won the Tour's junior ranking and was able to finish the tour twice among the top ten. Voeckler, a specialist in breakaway attempts, achieved his best tour placement in 2011 when he wore the yellow jersey for ten stages. Bryan Coquard was third in the sprint classification of the Tour of France in 2014.
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MTN-Qhubeka (MTN) - → Start and results list
- MTN-Qhubeka was the first South African team to take part in a Tour de France. She had three South Africans and two drivers from Eritrea in the squad. Among them was Daniel Teklehaimanot , who has been the African champion in the individual and team time trials almost consistently since 2010. Well-known drivers of the team were Edvald Boasson Hagen , two-time Tour stage winner in 2011, and Tyler Farrar , who has also won several Grand Tour stages as a sprinter.
Changes in the regulations
Compared to previous years, the winner of a flat stage received a larger number of points for scoring . The stages were divided into six point categories. The flatter the profile of a stage, the higher it was categorized and the more points the winner could score. The first three riders to finish a stage in point category 1 (flat) now received 50, 30 and 20 points. In categories 2 and 3 (hilly) 30, 25 and 22 points were awarded, for categories 4, 5 and 6 (mountain stages and time trials) there were 20, 17 and 15 points. Overall, as in previous years, points were awarded up to 15th place. The change should give pure sprinters better chances in the fight for the green jersey . The last time the points scheme for the Tour de France 2011 was revised.
As a further change, time credits were reintroduced after the award of bonus seconds for the Tour de France 2008 had been abolished. At all stages, with the exception of the time trial, the first three riders at the finish were given a time credit of ten, six and four seconds.
Tour itinerary
Grand Départ
The 2015 Tour de France started in the Dutch city of Utrecht , which had competed for the Grand Départ of the tour twelve years in a row . This was the sixth time she started in the Netherlands in 2015 . The first stage was held on July 4th as a 13.8-kilometer individual time trial on the streets of Utrecht. The second stage also began in the fourth largest city in the Netherlands.
The city of Utrecht paid the organizer a total of four million euros to host the Grand Départ. In the evaluation of the event, the city's income was estimated at 33.6 (€ 33.617.897.79) million euros.
Route and stage plan
After the opening time trial in Utrecht over 13.8 kilometers, the second stage was flat to Zeeland . The third stage, starting in Antwerp and finishing in Huy , passed through Belgium . The stage ended at the wall of Huy, an ascent with a length of 1.3 kilometers with an average gradient of 10 percent and a maximum of 27 percent. With the wall of Huy, the stage had the same goal as the spring classic La Flèche Wallonne . After starting in Seraing , Belgium , the fourth stage ended in France. On the way to Cambrai , the route led across seven cobblestone sectors with a total length of 13.3 kilometers. In France, the tour led counter-clockwise through the country. The stages of the first week of the race, which were held near the sea, were demanding despite the flat profile due to the possible wind edges . The first week ended with the arrival in Mûr-de-Bretagne . The following team time trial over 28 kilometers between Plumelec and Vannes was the second and last time trial of the 2015 Tour. This meant that there were only 41.8 kilometers of time trial during the entire tour.
After the first day of rest, the Pyrenees were on the tour plan in the second week . For the first time, a section of the tour ended on the tenth stage on the Col de la Pierre Saint-Martin . The crossing of the high mountains ended with the 195 km long twelfth stage and the mountain arrival at the Plateau de Beille . At the end of the second and the beginning of the third week, the sprinters had another chance at stage wins on the transfer stages to the Alps . Among other things, the Massif Central was crossed. Then it got more mountainous again on the 16th stage to Gap . After the rest day there, the Alps were crossed on four high mountain stages. Mountain arrivals were in Pra-Loup , La Toussuire and Alpe d'Huez . In addition, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne , located in the valley, was the destination of the 18th stage and the start of the 19th stage. Due to a landslide, the route for the 20th stage had to be changed. The route no longer led over the originally planned Col du Galibier , but a second time over the Col de la Croix de Fer , which was already part of the 19th stage. The tour ends with the 21st stage after 3,360 kilometers traditionally on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris .
A total of 57 climbs had to be mastered, including seven of the hardest category , the Hors Catégorie (HC), on six different mountains:
| stage | rise | category | height | length | pitch | Points | comment |
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| 10. | Col de la Pierre Saint-Martin | HC | 1610 m | 15.3 km | 7.4% | 50 | Mountain arrival |
| 11. | Col du Tourmalet | HC | 2115 m | 17.1 km | 7.3% | 25th | Souvenir Jacques Goddet |
| 12. | Plateau de Beille | HC | 1780 m | 15.8 km | 7.9% | 50 | Mountain arrival |
| 18th | Col du Glandon | HC | 1924 m | 21.7 km | 5.1% | 25th | |
| 19th | Col de la Croix de Fer (I) | HC | 2067 m | 22.4 km | 6.9% | 25th | |
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| 20th | Col de la Croix de Fer (II) | HC | 2067 m | 29.0 km | 5.2% | 25th | Replacement for the Col du Galibier |
| 20th | Alpe d'Huez | HC | 1850 m | 13.8 km | 8.1% | 50 | Mountain arrival |
Criticism of the stage plan was primarily due to the few time trial kilometers (13.8 in the individual and 28 in the team time trial compared to 42.5 in the individual and 23 in the team time trial in the 2011 Tour ) and the late implementation of the team time trial , the result of which was due to early failures of Drivers could be distorted. Chris Froome , winner of the Tour of France 2013 and one of the favorites, considered not starting because of the short time trial, but then concentrated on the tour when planning the season.
| stage | date | Starting place | Destination | Type | km | Stage winner |
 Most combative driver
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Saturday 4th July |
Utrecht
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Utrecht |
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13.8 |
Rohan Dennis (BMC)
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not forgiven |
| 2. | Sun 5th July |
Utrecht |
Neeltje Jans
|
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166 |
André Greipel (LTS)
|
 Michał Kwiatkowski (EQS)
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| 3. | Mon. July 6th |
Antwerp
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Huy
|
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159.5 |
Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT)
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 Jan Bárta (BOA)
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| 4th | Tuesday, July 7th |
Seraing
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Cambrai | |
223.5 |
Tony Martin (EQS)
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Vincenzo Nibali (AST)
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| 5. | Wed. July 8th | Arras | Amiens | |
189.5 |
André Greipel (LTS)
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Michael Matthews (OGE)
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| 6th | Thursday, July 9th | Abbeville | Le Havre | |
191.5 |
Zdeněk Štybar (EQS)
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Perrig Quéméneur (EUC)
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| 7th | Fri. July 10th | Livarot | Fougères | |
190.5 |
Mark Cavendish (EQS)
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Anthony Delaplace (BSE)
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| 8th. | Sat, July 11th | Rennes | Mûr-de-Bretagne | |
181.5 |
Alexis Vuillermoz (ALM)
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Bartosz Huzarski (BOA)
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| 9. | Sun, July 12th | Vannes | Plumelec | |
28 |
BMC Racing Team
|
not forgiven |
| Mon., July 13th | Rest day in Pau |  |
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| 10. | Tuesday, July 14th | Tarbes | La Pierre Saint-Martin | |
167 |
Chris Froome (SKY)
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Kenneth Vanbilsen (COF)
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| 11. | Wed., July 15th | Pau | Cauterets |  |
188 |
Rafał Majka (TCS)
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 Daniel Martin (TCG)
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| 12. | Thursday, July 16 | Lannemezan | Plateau de Beille | |
195 |
Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT)
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Michał Kwiatkowski (EQS)
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| 13. | Friday, July 17th | Muret | Rodez | |
198.5 |
Greg Van Avermaet (BMC)
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Thomas De Gendt (LTS)
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| 14th | Sat, July 18 | Rodez | Mende | |
178.5 |
Steve Cummings (MTN)
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Pierre-Luc Périchon (BSE)
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| 15th | Sun, July 19 | Mende | Valence | |
183 |
André Greipel (LTS)
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Peter Sagan (TCS)
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| 16. | Mon, July 20 | Bourg-de-Péage | Gap | |
201 |
Rubén Plaza (LAM)
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Peter Sagan (TCS)
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| Tuesday, July 21 | Rest day in Gap | |
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| 17th | Wed., July 22 | Digne-les-Bains | Pra-Loup | |
161 |
Simon Geschke (TGA)
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Simon Geschke (TGA)
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| 18th | Thursday, July 23 | Gap | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | |
186.5 |
Romain Bardet (ALM)
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Romain Bardet (ALM)
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| 19th | Fri. July 24th | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | La Toussuire | |
138 |
Vincenzo Nibali (AST)
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Pierre Rolland (EUC)
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| 20th | Sat, July 25th | Modane | L'Alpe d'Huez | |
110.5 |
Thibaut Pinot (FDJ)
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Alexandre Geniez (FDJ)
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| 21st | Sunday, July 26th | Sèvres | Paris, Champs-Élysées | |
109.5 |
André Greipel (LTS)
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not forgiven |
Ratings in the course of the tour
The table shows the leader in the respective classification or the wearer of the classification jerseys or colored back numbers at the end of the respective stage. The individual stage articles, which are linked in the first column, offer a more detailed overview of the placements after a stage.
| stage |
Overall rating |
Scoring |
Mountain scoring |
Young talent evaluation |
 Team evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Rohan Dennis (BMC)
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Rohan Dennis (BMC) (1)
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not forgiven |
Rohan Dennis (BMC) (2)
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Team Lotto NL-Jumbo
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| 2. |
Fabian Cancellara (TFR)
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André Greipel (LTS)
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Tom Dumoulin (TGA)
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BMC Racing Team
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| 3. |
Chris Froome (SKY)
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Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT)
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Peter Sagan (TCS) (4) , (5)
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| 4th |
Tony Martin (EQS) (3)
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| 5. | |||||
| 6th |
 Daniel Teklehaimanot (MTN)
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| 7th |
Chris Froome (SKY)
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| 8th. |
Peter Sagan (TCS)
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| 9. | |||||
| 10. |
André Greipel (LTS)
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Chris Froome (SKY) (6) , (7)
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Nairo Quintana (MOV)
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Team Sky
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| 11. |
Peter Sagan (TCS)
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| 12. |
Movistar team
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| 13. | |||||
| 14th | |||||
| 15th | |||||
| 16. | |||||
| 17th | |||||
| 18th |
Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT)
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| 19th |
Romain Bardet (ALM)
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| 20th |
Chris Froome (SKY) (8)
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| 21st | |||||
| winner |
Chris Froome (SKY)
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Peter Sagan (TCS)
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Chris Froome (SKY)
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Nairo Quintana (MOV)
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Movistar team
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Notes on the table:
Bottom line
 |
Chris Froome (SKY) |
84:46:14 h (Ø 39.634 km / h) |
| 2. |
Nairo Quintana (MOV) |
+ 1:12 min |
| 3. |
Alejandro Valverde (MOV) |
+ 5:25 min |
| 4th |
Vincenzo Nibali (AST) |
+ 8:36 min |
| 5. |
Alberto Contador (TCS) |
+ 9:48 min |
| 6th |
Robert Gesink (TLJ) |
+ 10:47 min |
| 7th |
Bauke Mollema (TFR) |
+ 15:14 min |
| 8th. |
Mathias Frank (IAM) |
+ 15:39 min |
| 9. |
Romain Bardet (ALM) |
+ 16:00 min |
| 10. |
Pierre Rolland (EUC) |
+ 17:30 min |
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Peter Sagan (TCS) |
432 pts. |
| 2. |
André Greipel (LTS) |
366 pts. |
| 3. |
John Degenkolb (TGA) |
298 pts. |
| 4th |
Mark Cavendish (EQS) |
206 pts. |
| 5. |
Bryan Coquard (EUC) |
152 pts. |
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Chris Froome (SKY) |
119 pts. |
| 2. |
Nairo Quintana (MOV) |
108 pts. |
| 3. |
Romain Bardet (ALM) |
90 pts. |
| 4th |
Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) |
82 pts. |
| 5. |
Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT) |
78 pts. |
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Nairo Quintana (MOV) |
84:47:26 h |
| 2. |
Romain Bardet (ALM) |
+ 14:48 min |
| 3. |
Warren Barguil (TGA) |
+ 30:03 min |
| 4th |
Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) |
+ 37:40 min |
| 5. |
 Bob Jungels (TFR) |
+ 1:32:09 h |
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Movistar team
|
255: 24: 24 h |
| 2. |
Team Sky
|
+ 57:23 min |
| 3. |
Tinkoff-Saxo
|
+ 1:00:12 h |
| 4th |
Astana Pro Team
|
+ 1:12:09 h |
| 5. |
MTN-Qhubeka
|
+ 1:14:32 h |
|
Romain Bardet (ALM)
|
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- The jersey and classification winners of the Tour de France 2015
Chris Froome
Peter Sagan
Nairo Quintana
Movistar team
Romain Bardet
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The tour finished 160 of 198 riders who started, about 81% of the participants. In 84 hours, 46 minutes and 14 seconds, the Briton Chris Froome from the Sky team won the Tour de France for the second time after 2013. In second place followed, one minute and 12 seconds behind, the Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar), who was second behind Froome in 2013. Third was his teammate Alejandro Valverde from Spain, who had always come in the top eight in his last six Grand Tours competitions and was on the podium for the first time in a Tour de France. Fourth place went to last year's winner Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), who was 8 minutes and 36 seconds behind Chris Froome. The two-time tour winner Alberto Contador from Spain took fifth place . The remaining "Top Ten" of the 2015 Tour de France consisted of Robert Gesink (Netherlands / Lotto NL-Jumbo), Bauke Mollema (Netherlands / Trek), Mathias Frank (Switzerland / IAM), Romain Bardet (France / ag2r La Mondiale) and Pierre Rolland (France / Europcar) together. Rolland was tenth overall, 17 minutes and 30 seconds behind Chris Froome.
Last in the overall standings ( Lanterne Rouge , "red lantern") was Sébastien Chavanel , who was placed 160th on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, four hours, 56 minutes and 59 seconds behind the overall leader.
In the points classification of Slovakia was Peter Sagan 2015 succession victorious for the fourth time. Along with Erik Zabel and Sean Kelly , he was now one of the three drivers who won the green jersey most often. Sagan scored a particularly high number of points in breakaway groups in the intermediate sprints of the stages. André Greipel (Lotto Soudal), who was second in the points classification , won four sprint finishes, but was still well behind Sagan with 366 points. Greipel's compatriot John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin) took third place in the sprint ranking .
The polka-dot jersey won Chris Froome with eleven points ahead of Nairo Quintana. The first two places in the overall ranking thus also corresponded to those in the mountain ranking . Most recently, Eddy Merckx won both the yellow and the dotted jersey at the Tour de France in 1970 . Romain Bardet was third in the ranking, 29 points behind Froome.
At the age of 25, Nairo Quintana won the junior competition for the second time since 2013 and thus the white jersey of the fastest young professional. Romain Bardet was second with 14 minutes and 48 seconds behind. Third place went to his compatriot Warren Barguil (Giant-Alpecin), 30 minutes and 3 seconds apart. Of the 32 riders who started in the junior competition, 25 finished the tour.
The team competition was won by the Spanish Movistar Team (Quintana, Valverde). For the team it was the third victory in this classification after 1991 and 1999 (then under the name Banesto ). The Sky team led by Chris Froome was 57 minutes and 23 seconds behind, with Alberto Contador's Tinkoff-Saxo team in third place, one hour and twelve seconds behind Movistar. The Orica-GreenEdge team took 22nd and last place in the team classification . In this classification she was eight hours, 45 minutes and two seconds behind the winner.
Romain Bardet was honored as the most combative driver of the tour. The Frenchman had received the red number on his back once when he won the 18th stage and was represented several times in escape groups.
After stage wins, German drivers were the most successful, André Greipel, Tony Martin and Simon Geschke won six stages together. Three stage wins each went to Spain, Great Britain and France. The most successful team was the Lotto-Soudal team with André Greipel's four stage wins. Etixx-Quick Step and the BMC team were able to book three stage wins each.
Awards
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Souvenir Jacques Goddet during the 11th stage on the Col du Tourmalet at 2115 m : Rafał Majka (TCS)
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Souvenir Henri Desgrange during the 17th stage on the Col d'Allos at 2250 m : Simon Geschke (TGA)
Prize money
Prize money of € 2,030,150 was distributed during the tour. Of this, € 1,009,000 went to the overall classification, € 475,000 for the stage classification, € 178,800 for the team classification, € 128,000 for the points classification, € 106,850 for the mountain classification, € 66,500 for the junior classification, € 56,000 for the classification for the most competitive driver and € 10,000 was used for the special ratings (Souvenir Jacques Goddet and Souvenir Henri Desgrange).
The following table shows the prize money paid out for the classification of each classification at the end of the tour. In addition, the leader of each of these ratings on a stage (with the exception of the first stage, on which there can be no leaders) received daily prize money of € 350 or € 300. The prize money in the overall ranking was the only one that was staggered down to the last place and amounted to € 950 for 20th place and € 400 from 91st place to last place.
| placement | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4th | 5. | 6th | 7th | 8th. | Every day |
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Overall rating
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€ 450,000 | € 200,000 | € 100,000 | € 70,000 | € 50,000 | € 23,000 | € 11,500 | € 7,600 | € 350 |
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Scoring
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€ 25,000 | € 15,000 | € 10,000 | € 4,000 | € 3,500 | € 3,000 | € 2,500 | € 2,000 | € 300 |
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Mountain scoring
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€ 25,000 | € 15,000 | € 10,000 | € 4,000 | € 3,500 | € 3,000 | € 2,500 | € 2,000 | € 300 |
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Young talent evaluation
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€ 20,000 | € 15,000 | € 10,000 | € 5,000 | € 300 | ||||
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Team ranking
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€ 50,000 | € 30,000 | € 20,000 | € 12,000 | € 8,000 | ||||
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Most combative driver
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€ 20,000 | ||||||||
This table lists the prize money awarded for results achieved in one stage. Prize money will be paid out for the first twenty drivers or teams of a stage. The awarding of prize money in the other ratings usually takes into account the first three drivers or only the winner of the rating on this stage.
| placement | 1. | 2. | 3. | annotation |
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| Stage evaluation and individual time trials | € 8,000 | € 4,000 | € 2,000 | staggered up to 20th place (200 €) |
| Team time trial | € 10,000 | € 5,000 | € 2,500 | staggered up to 20th place (200 €) |
| Intermediate sprints | € 1,500 | € 1,000 | 500 € | 19 intermediate sprints during the tour |
| Mountain classification cat. HC | € 800 | 450 € | € 300 | 7 ratings during the tour |
| Mountain classification cat. 1 | € 650 | 400 € | 150 € | 7 ratings during the tour |
| Mountain classification cat. 2 | 500 € | 250 € | 12 ratings during the tour | |
| Mountain classification cat. 3 | € 300 | 12 ratings during the tour | ||
| Mountain classification cat. 4 | € 200 | 20 ratings during the tour | ||
| Young drivers | 500 € | fastest young driver of the stage | ||
| Most combative driver | € 2,000 | except time trial and last stage | ||
| team | € 2,800 | fastest team of the stage | ||
The prize money is distributed according to teams as follows:
| space | team | Prize money |
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| 1 | Team Sky | € 556,630 |
| 2 | Movistar team | € 442,080 |
| 3 | Tinkoff-Saxo | € 176,350 |
| 4th | Astana Pro Team | € 112,950 |
| 5 | ag2r La Mondiale | € 95,330 |
| 6th | Lotto Soudal | € 75,520 |
| 7th | Team Giant-Alpecin | € 65,810 |
| 8th | Etixx-Quick Step | € 63,310 |
| 9 | BMC Racing Team | € 52,910 |
| 10 | MTN-Qhubeka | € 52,440 |
| 11 | FDJ | € 44,960 |
| 12 | Team Europcar | € 44,150 |
| 13 | Team Lotto NL-Jumbo | € 41,360 |
| 14th | Team Katusha | € 39,120 |
| 15th | Team Cannondale-Garmin | € 31,030 |
| 16 | Trek Factory Racing | € 28,360 |
| 17th | IAM Cycling | € 22,700 |
| 18th | Lampre-Merida | € 20,510 |
| 19th | Brittany-Séché Environnement | € 19,260 |
| 20th | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | € 16,340 |
| 21st | Bora argon 18 | € 15,590 |
| 22nd | Orica GreenEdge | € 10,940 |
reporting
In Germany, the special interest broadcaster Eurosport broadcast live broadcasts for all stages, most of which included the majority of the stage, in exceptional cases even the entire stage. The live transmission usually lasted at least three hours, sometimes even six hours. Karsten Migels commented on the stages together with the expert Jean-Claude Leclercq ; Marc Rohde and Ron Ringguth , who were regularly involved, provided information on culture, landscape and other aspects apart from cycling . In addition, pre- and post-tour reports were broadcast, moderated by former Tour de France participants , including Greg LeMond and Juan Antonio Flecha .
In addition, the public broadcaster Das Erste broadcast live from the tour for the first time since 2011. The reporting mostly included the last hour of the race and the finish line. Florian Naß commented and Michael Antwerpes moderated the finish line . There was also a live stream and videos produced from it on the Sportschau website . This showed the stages more comprehensively than the television program in mostly full length and was commented by Florian Kurz , supported by former professional cyclist Uwe Peschel .
Web links
- Official website of the Tour de France
- Regulations of the Tour de France 2015 (PDF)
- Information and overviews of the Tour de France 2015 on radsport-seite.de
- Tour de France 2015 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Teams and riders. (No longer available online.) Amaury Sport Organization, archived from the original on August 10, 2015 ; accessed on February 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tour de France Points Competition Scale Revealed. inrng.com, May 25, 2015, accessed May 29, 2015 .
- ↑ LE RÈGLEMENT DE L'ÉPREUVE / RACE REGULATIONS. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Amaury Sport Organization, 2015, archived from the original on June 24, 2015 ; Retrieved July 6, 2015 (French, English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Utrecht to host the Grand Start in 2015. (No longer available online.) Amaury Sport Organization, archived from the original on November 22, 2013 ; accessed on November 22, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tour de France will start in Utrecht in 2015. Grand Départ for the sixth time in the Netherlands. Sport Aktiv Media GmbH, November 8, 2013, accessed on November 22, 2013 .
- ^ Utrecht 2015: the color of cycling. (No longer available online.) Amaury Sport Organization, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on November 30, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Utrecht pays four million euros for the Grand Départ of the Tour de France. radsport-news.com, November 11, 2014, accessed May 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Evaluation of Le Grand Départ Utrecht 2015 , accessed on May 19, 2017
- ↑ Tour de France: All the climbs of the 2015 Tour in a nutshell - Alpe d'Huez, Tourmalet & Co. In: eurosport.de . Eurosport , July 6, 2015, accessed July 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Andreas Schulz: Tour at the low point. Sport Aktiv Media GmbH, October 23, 2014, accessed on June 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Froome might skip the tour in 2015. In: rad-net.de. October 22, 2014, accessed June 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Just an individual time trial - Froome waiver? In: The world online. October 22, 2014, accessed June 30, 2015 .
- ↑ So yes: Froome will also focus on the tour in 2015. In: rad-net.de. December 2, 2014, accessed June 30, 2015 .
- ^ Daniel Brickwedde: Tour de France 2015 prize money: Sky collects the most. In: tour-magazin.de. July 28, 2015, accessed July 28, 2015 .
