| 2015 UCI World Tour, race 17 of 28[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.jpg) Simon Špilak won the 2015 Tour de Suisse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 13–21 June 2015[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,262.6 km (784.5 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 30h 15' 09" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2015 Tour de Suisse was the 79th edition of the Tour de Suisse stage race. It took place from 13 to 21 June and was the seventeenth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour. It started in Risch-Rotkreuz and finished in Bern. The race was composed of nine stages including two time trials, a short one on the first day and a long one on the last day. The event covered 1,262.6 kilometres (785 miles),[2] and visited Liechtenstein and Austria on its fifth stage, which was the race's sole mountaintop finish.
The winner of the general classification was Slovenian Simon Špilak of Team Katusha, who won the race by a margin of only five seconds from Great Britain's Geraint Thomas (Team Sky). The ultimate selection was made on the last day's individual time trial. Tom Dumoulin of the Team Giant–Alpecin squad rounded up the podium, having won the two individual time trial stages that bookended the race.
The mountains classification was initially awarded to Austria's Stefan Denifl (IAM Cycling), who featured in many breakaways to amass his points. Denifl was later disqualified following his suspension for doping in 2019. The sprints classification was won by Slovakian Peter Sagan (Tinkoff–Saxo) who also was the victor of two stages. Team Sky finished at the head of the team classification with a margin of 11 minutes and 49 seconds.
Other riders who won a stage were Croatian Kristijan Đurasek of Lampre–Merida, Australian Michael Matthews (Orica–GreenEDGE), Norwegian Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha) and Kazakh Alexey Lutsenko of Astana. Frenchman Thibaut Pinot grabbed the queen stage to the Rettenbach glacier and held the leader's jersey for four stages, but had to surrender it on the last day of competition to Špilak.
- ^ "2015 UCI Calendar". UCI. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ a b TdS 2020, p. 198.
- ^ "Denifl and Preidler handed four-year bans after blood doping confessions". Cyclingnews.com. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- ^ "Consequences Imposed on License-Holders as Result of Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRV) as per the UCI Anti-Doping Rules (ADR)" (PDF). UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 30 May 2022. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
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