Tour de Romandie 2015

69th Tour de Romandie 2015
Racing series	UCI WorldTour
Host country	Switzerland
Competition period	April 28 - May 3, 2015
Stages	6th
overall length	711.7 km
Starting field	144 in 18 teams
winner
Overall rating	1. Ilnur Sakarin 18:36:30 h 2. Simon Špilak + 0:17 min 3. Chris Froome + 0:35 min
Team evaluation	Team Katusha 55:08:54 h
Scoring jerseys
Mountain scoring	Maxim Belkov
Scoring	Maxim Belkov
Young talent evaluation	Thibaut Pinot
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The 69th Tour de Romandie took place from April 28th to May 3rd, 2015. The race was part of the UCI WorldTour 2015 . It ran over six stages.

Attendees

UCI WorldTeams Ag2r La Mondiale Astana Pro Team BMC Racing Team Team Cannondale-Garmin Etixx-Quick Step	FDJ Team Giant-Alpecin IAM Cycling Team Katusha Lampre-Merida Team Lotto NL-Jumbo	Lotto Soudal Movistar team Orica GreenEdge Team Sky Tinkoff-Saxo Trek Factory Racing
UCI Professional Continental Team	Team Europcar

The 17 UCI WorldTeams were entitled to start . The organizer also gave the UCI Professional Continental Team Team Europcar a wildcard .

Stage overview

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner
1.	April 28	Vallée de Joux - Juraparc	019.2		Team Sky
2.	April 29	Apples - Saint-Imier	168.1		Michael Albasini
2.	April, 30th	Moutier - Pruntrut	172.5		Michael Albasini
4th	1st of May	La Neuveville - Freiburg	169.8		Stefan Küng
5.	2.May	Freiburg - Champex-Lac	162.7		Thibaut Pinot
6th	May 3rd	Lausanne - Lausanne EZF	018.5		Tony Martin

Stages

Stage 1

April 28, 2015 - Vallée de Joux - Sion - 19.2 km

Result of the 1st stage team time 1 Team Sky 21:19 min 2 Orica GreenEdge + 0:00 min 3 Team Katusha + 0:05 min 4th Etixx-Quick Step + 0:14 min 5 Astana Pro Team + 0:17 min 6th BMC Racing Team + 0:19 min 7th FDJ + 0:22 min 8th IAM Cycling + 0:24 min 9 Team Cannondale-Garmin + 0:40 min 10 Movistar team + 0:40 min

Overall ranking after the 1st stage driver team time 1 Geraint Thomas Team Sky 21:19 min 2 Elia Viviani Team Sky + 0:00 min 3 Ian Stannard Team Sky + 0:00 min 4th Luke Rowe Team Sky + 0:00 min 5 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:00 min 6th Peter Kennaugh Team Sky + 0:00 min 7th Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge + 0:00 min 8th Simon Gerrans Orica GreenEdge + 0:00 min 9 Svein Tuft Orica GreenEdge + 0:00 min 10 Ivan Santaromita Orica GreenEdge + 0:00 min

Stage 2

April 29, 2015 - Apples - Saint-Imier - 168.1 km

Result of the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 4:21:43 h 2 Jarlinson Pantano IAM Cycling s. t. 3 Julian Alaphilippe Etixx-Quick Step s. t. 4th Nathan Haas Team Cannondale-Garmin s. t. 5 Rui Costa Lampre-Merida s. t. 6th Damiano Caruso BMC Racing Team s. t. 7th Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha s. t. 8th Ivan Santaromita Orica GreenEdge s. t. 9 Jan Bakelants Ag2r La Mondiale s. t. 10 Ramūnas Navardauskas Team Cannondale-Garmin s. t.

Overall ranking after the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 4:42:52 h 2 Ivan Santaromita Orica GreenEdge + 0:10 min 3 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:10 min 4th Simon Yates Orica GreenEdge + 0:10 min 5 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:15 min 6th Pavel Kochetkov Team Katusha + 0:15 min 7th Yegor Silin Team Katusha + 0:15 min 8th Yuri Trofimov Team Katusha + 0:15 min 9 Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:15 min 10 Julian Alaphilippe Etixx-Quick Step + 0:20 min

Stage 3

April 30, 2015 - Moutier - Pruntrut - 172.5 km

Result of the 3rd stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 4:14:56 h 2 Julian Alaphilippe Etixx-Quick Step s. t. 3 Damiano Caruso BMC Racing Team s. t. 4th Rui Costa Lampre-Merida s. t. 5 Simon Gerrans Orica GreenEdge s. t. 6th Nathan Haas Team Cannondale-Garmin s. t. 7th Rigoberto Urán Etixx-Quick Step s. t. 8th Ramūnas Navardauskas Team Cannondale-Garmin s. t. 9 Luka Mezgec Team Giant-Alpecin s. t. 10 Sergei Chernetsky Team Katusha s. t.

Overall ranking after the 3rd stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 8:57:38 h 2 Ivan Santaromita Orica GreenEdge + 0:20 min 3 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:20 min 4th Simon Yates Orica GreenEdge + 0:20 min 5 Julian Alaphilippe Etixx-Quick Step + 0:24 min 6th Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:25 min 7th Pavel Kochetkov Team Katusha + 0:25 min 8th Yuri Trofimov Team Katusha + 0:25 min 9 Yegor Silin Team Katusha + 0:25 min 10 Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:25 min

Stage 4

May 1st 2015 - La Neuveville - Freiburg - 169.8 km

Result of the 4th stage driver team time 1 Stefan Küng BMC Racing Team 4:35:10 h 2 Jan Bakelants Ag2r La Mondiale + 0:38 min 3 Bert-Jan Lindeman Team Lotto NL-Jumbo + 0:39 min 4th Tony Martin Etixx-Quick Step + 0:45 min 5 Gianni Meersman Etixx-Quick Step + 0:52 min 6th Tosh Van der Sande Lotto Soudal s. t. 7th Johannes Fröhlinger Team Giant-Alpecin s. t. 8th Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge s. t. 9 Simon Yates Orica GreenEdge s. t. 10 Ivan Santaromita Orica GreenEdge s. t.

Overall ranking after the 4th stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 13:33:40 h 2 Ivan Santaromita Orica GreenEdge + 0:20 min 3 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:20 min 4th Simon Yates Orica GreenEdge + 0:20 min 5 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:25 min 6th Yegor Silin Team Katusha + 0:25 min 7th Yuri Trofimov Team Katusha + 0:25 min 8th Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:25 min 9 Tony Martin Etixx-Quick Step + 0:27 min 10 Rigoberto Urán Etixx-Quick Step + 0:34 min

Stage 5

May 2, 2015 - Freiburg - Champex-Lac - 162.7 km

Result of the 5th stage driver team time 1 Thibaut Pinot FDJ 4:38:54 h 2 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:07 min 3 Romain Bardet Ag2r La Mondiale + 0:20 min 4th Nairo Quintana Movistar team s. t. 5 Simon Špilak Team Katusha s. t. 6th Rafał Majka Tinkoff-Saxo s. t. 7th Chris Froome Team Sky s. t. 8th Rigoberto Urán Etixx-Quick Step + 0:53 min 9 Vincenzo Nibali Astana Pro Team s. t. 10 Michele Scarponi Astana Pro Team s. t.

Overall ranking after the 5th stage driver team time 1 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha 18:13:00 h 2 Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:06 min 3 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:14 min 4th Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:19 min 5 Nairo Quintana Movistar team + 0:54 min 6th Rigoberto Urán Etixx-Quick Step + 1:01 min 7th Simon Yates Orica GreenEdge + 1:01 min 8th Vincenzo Nibali Astana Pro Team + 1:04 min 9 Michele Scarponi Astana Pro Team + 1:04 min 10 Yuri Trofimov Team Katusha + 1:06 min

Stage 6

May 3, 2015 - Lausanne - Lausanne - 18.5 km

Result of the 6th stage driver team time 1 Tony Martin Etixx-Quick Step 23:18 min 2 Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:11 min 3 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:13 min 4th Jurgen Van Den Broeck Lotto Soudal + 0:19 min 5 Rohan Dennis BMC Racing Team + 0:22 min 6th Romain Bardet Ag2r La Mondiale + 0:24 min 7th Jonathan Castroviejo Movistar team + 0:25 min 8th Stef Clement IAM Cycling + 0:26 min 9 Rafał Majka Tinkoff-Saxo + 0:28 min 10 Steve Morabito FDJ + 0:31 min

Overall ranking after the 6th stage driver team time 1 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha 18:36:30 h 2 Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:17 min 3 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:35 min 4th Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:49 min 5 Rigoberto Urán Etixx-Quick Step + 1:20 min 6th Simon Yates Orica GreenEdge + 1:21 min 7th Rafał Majka Tinkoff-Saxo + 1:24 min 8th Nairo Quintana Movistar team + 1:42 min 9 Romain Bardet Ag2r La Mondiale + 1:43 min 10 Vincenzo Nibali Astana Pro Team + 1:54 min

Scoring jerseys in the course of the race

The table shows the leaders after each stage.

stage	Overall rating	Mountain scoring	Scoring	Young talent evaluation	Team ranking
1.	Geraint Thomas	not forgiven	not forgiven	Luke Rowe	Team Sky
2.	Michael Albasini	Maxim Belkov	Jonathan Fumeaux	Simon Yates	Orica GreenEdge
3.
4th					BMC Racing Team
5.	Ilnur Sakarin		Maxim Belkov	Thibaut Pinot	Team Katusha
6th

Web links

• Official website
• Regulations of the Tour de Romandie 2015 (PDF, French)
• Tour de Romandie 2015 in the ProCyclingStats.com database