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2015 Tour de France

2015 Tour de France
2015 UCI World Tour, race 18 of 28
Map of France showing the showing the path of the race going counter-clockwise starting in the Netherlands, going through Belgium, then around France.
Route of the 2015 Tour de France
Race details
Dates 4–26 July
Stages 21
Distance 3,360.3 km (2,088 mi)
Winning time 84h 46' 14"
Results
Jersey awarded to the overall winner Winner  Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky)
  Second  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
  Third  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) (Movistar Team)

Points  Peter Sagan (SVK) (Tinkoff–Saxo)
Mountains  Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky)
Youth  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
Combativity  Romain Bardet (FRA) (AG2R La Mondiale)
Team Movistar Team
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Jersey awarded to the overall winner Winner  Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky)
  Second  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
  Third  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) (Movistar Team)

Points  Peter Sagan (SVK) (Tinkoff–Saxo)
Mountains  Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky)
Youth  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
Combativity  Romain Bardet (FRA) (AG2R La Mondiale)
Team Movistar Team

The 2015 Tour de France was the 102nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,360.3 km (2,088 mi)-long race started in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 4 July 2015, and concluded with the Champs-Élysées stage in Paris, on 26 July. A total of 198 riders from 22 teams entered the 21-stage race, which was won by Chris Froome of Team Sky. The second and third places were taken by the Movistar Team riders Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde, respectively.

BMC Racing Team's Rohan Dennis won the first stage to take the race leader's yellow jersey. Trek Factory Racing rider Fabian Cancellara claimed it on the second, only to lose it after crashing out on the following stage. This put Froome in the lead, after the Tour's first uphill finish. He lost the position to Etixx–Quick-Step's Tony Martin at the end of the fourth stage, but Martin's withdrawal from the race after a crash at the end of the sixth stage put Froome back into the lead. He extended this lead during the stages in the Pyrenees and defended it successfully against attacks from Quintana during the final stages that took place in the Alps.

Froome became the first British rider to win the Tour twice, after his 2013 victory. Peter Sagan of Tinkoff–Saxo won the points classification. Froome also won the mountains classification. The best young rider was Quintana, with his team, Movistar, the winners of the team classification. Romain Bardet of AG2R La Mondiale was given the award for the most combative rider. André Greipel (Lotto–Soudal) won the most stages, with four.


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