2015 Tour de France
| 2015 UCI World Tour, race 18 of 28 | |||
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| Route of the 102nd Tour de France | |||
| Race details | |||
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| Dates | 4 July 2015–26 July 2015 | ||
| Stages | 21 | ||
| Distance | 3,344[1] km (2,078 mi) | ||
| Palmares | |||
The 2015 Tour de France will be the 102nd edition of the Tour de France. It is scheduled to start in Utrecht, Netherlands, on 4 July 2015.[2] It is the eighteenth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour.[3]
It will be the sixth time the Tour de France starts in the Netherlands, after 1954 (Amsterdam), 1973 (Scheveningen), 1978 (Leiden), 1996 ('s-Hertogenbosch) and 2010 (Rotterdam). This is a record for a country that has no direct border with France.
Rule changes
Time bonuses make a comeback for the 2015 edition of the race. In the first part of the Tour, stages from second to eighth, the three first finishers of stages will earn bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds respectively. Bonuses are not awarded for time trial stages. Sprint competition points system will also change. A stage win will be worth 50 points instead of 45, second place awards 30 instead of 35 and third 20 instead of 30. Sprint points rule change is aimed to make a stage win more valuable.[4]
Teams
The organizer, Amaury Sport Organization, announced a list of the five teams invited on 14 January 2015.[5] 22 teams will participate in this Tour de France - 17 UCI World Tour Teams and five Professional continental teams:
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| Professional Continental teams | ||||
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Route and stages
The first stage was announced on 28 November 2013[6] whilst the second and start of the third stage were confirmed on 24 May 2014. The remainder of the Tour was announced on 22 October 2014 during the official route presentation at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | ||
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| 1 | 4 July |  Utrecht – Utrechtsee route |
14 km (9 mi) |  |
Individual time trial | ||
| 2 | 5 July | Utrecht – Neeltje Jans see route |
166 km (103 mi) |  |
Flat stage | ||
| 3 | 6 July | .svg.png){kind=small} Antwerp – Huy |
154 km (96 mi) | |
Flat stage | ||
| 4 | 7 July | Seraing – Cambrai |
221 km (137 mi) | |
Flat stage | ||
| 5 | 8 July | Arras – Amiens |
189 km (117 mi) | |
Flat stage | ||
| 6 | 9 July | Abbeville – Le Havre |
191 km (119 mi) | |
Flat stage | ||
| 7 | 10 July | Livarot – Fougères |
190 km (118 mi) | |
Flat stage | ||
| 8 | 11 July | Rennes – Mûr-de-Bretagne |
179 km (111 mi) | |
Flat stage | ||
| 9 | 12 July | Vannes – Plumelec |
28 km (17 mi) | |
Team time trial | ||
| 13 July | Rest day | ||||||
| 10 | 14 July | Tarbes – La Pierre Saint Martin |
167 km (104 mi) |  |
Mountain stage | ||
| 11 | 15 July | Pau – Cauterets |
188 km (117 mi) | |
Mountain stage | ||
| 12 | 16 July | Lannemezan – Plateau de Beille |
195 km (121 mi) | |
Mountain stage | ||
| 13 | 17 July | Muret – Rodez |
200 km (124 mi) |  |
Medium-mountain stage | ||
| 14 | 18 July | Rodez – Mende |
178 km (111 mi) | |
Medium-mountain stage | ||
| 15 | 19 July | Mende – Valence |
182 km (113 mi) | |
Medium-mountain stage | ||
| 16 | 20 July | Bourg-de-Péage – Gap |
201 km (125 mi) | |
Medium-mountain stage | ||
| 21 July | Rest day | ||||||
| 17 | 22 July | Digne-les-Bains – Pra Loup |
161 km (100 mi) | |
Mountain stage | ||
| 18 | 23 July | Gap – Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne |
185 km (115 mi) | |
Mountain stage | ||
| 19 | 24 July | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne – La Toussuire |
138 km (86 mi) | |
Mountain stage | ||
| 20 | 25 July | Modane – Alpe d'Huez |
110 km (68 mi) | |
Mountain stage | ||
| 21 | 26 July | Sèvres – Paris |
107 km (66 mi) | |
Flat stage | ||
References
- ↑ "Tour de France 2015". Tour de France. Amaury Sport Organisation. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ↑ "Tour de France 2015 to start in Utrecht". cyclingnews.com. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ↑ "2015 UCI Calendar". UCI. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ↑ Hood, Andrew. "Tour de France resurrects time bonuses, reshuffles points competition". VeloNews.com. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ↑ "2015 : ASO distribue ses wild-cards" [2015: ASO distributes its wild cards]. velo-club.net (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ↑ "Tour de France start met tijdrit dertien kilometer" (in Dutch). cyclingonline.nl. 28 November 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
External links
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- The route of stage 1 Official Tour de France Twitter account
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