2015 Tour de Romandie
| 2015 UCI World Tour, race 14 of 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 28 April 2015–3 May 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 711.7 km (442.2 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 18hr 36' 30" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Ilnur Zakarin (RUS)
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(Team Katusha) |
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| Second |
 Simon Špilak (SLO)
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(Team Katusha) | |
| Third |
 Chris Froome (GBR)
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(Team Sky) | |
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Mountains |
Maxim Belkov (RUS)
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(Team Katusha) |
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Youth |
 Thibaut Pinot (FRA)
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(FDJ) |
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Sprints |
Maxim Belkov (RUS)
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(Team Katusha) |
| Team | Team Katusha | ||
The 2015 Tour de Romandie was the 69th edition of the Tour de Romandie stage race. It took place from 28 April to 3 May and was the fourteenth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour. The race took place around the Romandie region of Switzerland, starting in Lac de Joux and finishing in Lausanne. The race includes six stages, with a team time trial at the beginning and an individual time trial at the end and four hilly or mountainous stages in between. The queen stage is the fifth stage, which finishes on the climb above Champex-Lac.
The defending champion was Chris Froome (Team Sky), who won both the 2014 and 2013 editions.
The race was won by Ilnur Zakarin of Team Katusha.
Tour de Romandie is part of the UCI World Tour, which meant that the 17 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and obliged to send a team. The race organisers also invited one UCI Professional Continental wildcard team to make a peloton of 18 teams. Each team entered eight riders (the maximum permitted), so 144 riders started the first stage.
UCI WorldTeams
UCI Professional Continental teams
The race includes six stages over six days. The first stage is a 19.2-kilometre (11.9 mi) team time trial; this is a change from recent editions of the Tour de Romandie, which have started with a prologue individual time trial. The team time trial is important both for its role in the general classification and also because the teams are using it as preparation for a similar stage in the 2015 Tour de France. Stages 2, 3 and 4 are all hilly but are expected to end in sprints. The final two stages are expected to be the decisive ones in the general classification: the fifth stage includes several climbs and a summit finish at Champex-Lac and the sixth stage is a 17.3-kilometre (10.7 mi) individual time trial around Lausanne.
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