2015 Tour of Britain

The 2015 Aviva Tour of Britain was an eight-stage men's professional road cycling race. It was the twelfth running of the 2004 incarnation of the Tour of Britain and the 76th British tour in total. The race started on 6 September in Beaumaris and finished on 13 September in London.^[1] The race was part of the 2015 UCI Europe Tour.

2015 Tour of Britain

2015 UCI Europe Tour
Edvald Boasson Hagen in the final stage with his MTN-Qhubeka team
Race details
Dates	6–13 September 2015
Stages	8
Distance	1,451 km (901.6 mi)
Winning time	34h 52' 52"
Results
Winner  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (MTN–Qhubeka)   Second  Wout Poels (NED) (Team Sky)   Third  Owain Doull (GBR) (WIGGINS) Points  Owain Doull (GBR) (WIGGINS) Mountains  Peter Williams (GBR) (ONE Pro Cycling) Sprints  Peter Williams (GBR) (ONE Pro Cycling)   Team Cannondale–Garmin
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Teams

The twenty teams invited to participate in the Tour of Britain are:^[2]

UCI ProTeams BMC Racing Team Cannondale–Garmin Etixx–Quick-Step IAM Cycling LottoNL–Jumbo Lotto–Soudal Movistar Team Team Sky Tinkoff–Saxo

UCI Professional Continental Teams Cult Energy Pro Cycling MTN–Qhubeka Team Novo Nordisk

UCI Continental Teams An Post–Chain Reaction JLT–Condor Madison Genesis NFTO ONE Pro Cycling Team Raleigh WIGGINS

National Teams Great Britain

Stages

List of stages

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner	Ref
1	6 September	Beaumaris – Wrexham	177 km (110 mi)		Hilly stage	Elia Viviani (ITA)	[3]
2	7 September	Clitheroe – Colne	162 km (101 mi)		Hilly stage	Petr Vakoč (CZE)	[4]
3	8 September	Cockermouth – Floors Castle	216 km (134 mi)		Flat stage	Elia Viviani (ITA)	[5]
4	9 September	Edinburgh – Blyth	218 km (135 mi)		Flat stage	Fernando Gaviria (COL)	[6]
5	10 September	Prudhoe – Hartside Fell, Cumbria	171 km (106 mi)		Medium-mountain stage	Wout Poels (NED)	[7]
6	11 September	Stoke-on-Trent – Nottingham	189 km (117 mi)		Hilly stage	Matteo Trentin (ITA)	[8]
7	12 September	Fakenham – Ipswich	225 km (140 mi)		Flat stage	André Greipel (GER)	[9]
8	13 September	London	93 km (58 mi)		Flat stage	Elia Viviani (ITA)	[10]

Stage 1

6 September 2015 — Beaumaris to Wrexham, 177 kilometres (110 mi)

Stage 1 Result Rider Team Time 1  Elia Viviani (ITA) Team Sky 4h 26' 29" 2  Mark Cavendish (GBR) Etixx–Quick-Step s.t. 3  André Greipel (GER) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 4  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS s.t. 5  Juan José Lobato (ESP) Movistar Team s.t. 6  Pim Ligthart (NED) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 7  Mark Renshaw (AUS) Etixx–Quick-Step s.t. 8  Tyler Farrar (USA) MTN–Qhubeka s.t. 9  Alberto Bettiol (ITA) Cannondale–Garmin s.t. 10  Graham Briggs (GBR) JLT–Condor s.t.

General Classification after Stage 1 Rider Team Time 1  Elia Viviani (ITA) Team Sky 4h 26' 19" 2  Mark Cavendish (GBR) Etixx–Quick-Step + 4" 3  André Greipel (GER) Lotto–Soudal + 6" 4  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 10" 5  Juan José Lobato (ESP) Movistar Team + 10" 6  Pim Ligthart (NED) Lotto–Soudal + 10" 7  Mark Renshaw (AUS) Etixx–Quick-Step + 10" 8  Tyler Farrar (USA) MTN–Qhubeka + 10" 9  Alberto Bettiol (ITA) Cannondale–Garmin + 10" 10  Graham Briggs (GBR) JLT–Condor + 10"

Stage 2

7 September 2015 — Clitheroe to Colne, 162 kilometres (101 mi)

Stage 2 Result Rider Team Time 1  Petr Vakoč (CZE) Etixx–Quick-Step 4h 02' 22" 2  Juan José Lobato (ESP) Movistar Team + 7" 3  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka + 9" 4  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 9" 5  Matteo Trentin (ITA) Etixx–Quick-Step + 9" 6  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 9" 7  Jens Debusschere (BEL) Lotto–Soudal + 9" 8  Dylan Teuns (BEL) BMC Racing Team + 9" 9  Gorka Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 9" 10  Javier Mejías (ESP) Team Novo Nordisk + 9"

General Classification after Stage 2 Rider Team Time 1  Petr Vakoč (CZE) Etixx–Quick-Step 8h 28' 41" 2  Juan José Lobato (ESP) Movistar Team + 11" 3  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka + 15" 4  Floris Gerts (NED) BMC Racing Team + 17" 5  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 18" 6  Dylan van Baarle (NED) Cannondale–Garmin + 18" 7  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 19" 8  Graham Briggs (GBR) JLT–Condor + 19" 9  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 19" 10  Serge Pauwels (BEL) MTN–Qhubeka + 25"

Stage 3

8 September 2015 — Cockermouth to Floors Castle, 216 kilometres (134 mi)

Stage 3 Result Rider Team Time 1  Elia Viviani (ITA) Team Sky 5h 08' 18" 2  Juan José Lobato (ESP) Movistar Team s.t. 3  Matteo Trentin (ITA) Etixx–Quick-Step s.t. 4  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) IAM Cycling s.t. 5  Jens Debusschere (BEL) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 6  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS s.t. 7  Alberto Bettiol (ITA) Cannondale–Garmin s.t. 8  Graham Briggs (GBR) JLT–Condor s.t. 9  Alex Peters (GBR) Great Britain s.t. 10  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky s.t.

General Classification after Stage 3 Rider Team Time 1  Juan José Lobato (ESP) Movistar Team 13h 37' 04" 2  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka + 10" 3  Floris Gerts (NED) BMC Racing Team + 12" 4  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 13" 5  Dylan van Baarle (NED) Cannondale–Garmin + 13" 6  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 14" 7  Graham Briggs (GBR) JLT–Condor + 14" 8  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 14" 9  Matteo Trentin (ITA) Etixx–Quick-Step + 18" 10  Serge Pauwels (BEL) MTN–Qhubeka + 20"

Stage 4

9 September 2015 — Edinburgh to Blyth, 135 kilometres (84 mi)

Stage 4 Result Rider Team Time 1  Fernando Gaviria (COL) Etixx–Quick-Step 5h 13' 08" 2  André Greipel (GER) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 3  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka s.t. 4  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS s.t. 5  Jens Debusschere (BEL) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 6  Jonas Vangenechten (BEL) IAM Cycling s.t. 7  Elia Viviani (ITA) Team Sky s.t. 8  Gerald Ciolek (GER) MTN–Qhubeka s.t. 9  Floris Gerts (NED) BMC Racing Team s.t. 10  Graham Briggs (GBR) JLT–Condor s.t.

General Classification after Stage 4 Rider Team Time 1  Juan José Lobato (ESP) Movistar Team 18h 50' 12" 2  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka + 6" 3  Floris Gerts (NED) BMC Racing Team + 12" 4  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 13" 5  Dylan van Baarle (NED) Cannondale–Garmin + 13" 6  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 14" 7  Graham Briggs (GBR) JLT–Condor + 14" 8  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 14" 9  Matteo Trentin (ITA) Etixx–Quick-Step + 18" 10  Serge Pauwels (BEL) MTN–Qhubeka + 20"

Stage 5

10 September 2015 — Prudhoe to Hartside Fell, Cumbria, 171 kilometres (106 mi)

Stage 5 Result Rider Team Time 1  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky 4h 12' 22" 2  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka + 2" 3  Beñat Intxausti (ESP) Movistar Team + 17" 4  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Etixx–Quick-Step + 18" 5  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 18" 6  Steven Kruijswijk (NED) LottoNL–Jumbo + 18" 7  Xandro Meurisse (BEL) An Post–Chain Reaction + 18" 8  Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) Tinkoff–Saxo + 18" 9  Rubén Fernández (ESP) Movistar Team + 18" 10  Dylan Teuns (BEL) BMC Racing Team + 18"

General Classification after Stage 5 Rider Team Time 1  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka 23h 02' 36" 2  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 1" 3  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 30" 4  Beñat Intxausti (ESP) Movistar Team + 33" 5  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 37" 6  Dylan Teuns (BEL) BMC Racing Team + 38" 7  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Etixx–Quick-Step + 38" 8  Rubén Fernández (ESP) Movistar Team + 38" 9  Steven Kruijswijk (NED) LottoNL–Jumbo + 38" 10  Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) Tinkoff–Saxo + 38"

Stage 6

11 September 2015 — Stoke-on-Trent to Nottingham, 189 kilometres (117 mi)

Stage 6 Result Rider Team Time 1  Matteo Trentin (ITA) Etixx–Quick-Step 4h 45' 27" 2  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka s.t. 3  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 4" 4  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Etixx–Quick-Step + 4" 5  Jens Debusschere (BEL) Lotto–Soudal + 4" 6  Alberto Bettiol (ITA) Cannondale–Garmin + 4" 7  Alex Peters (GBR) Great Britain + 4" 8  Dylan Teuns (BEL) BMC Racing Team + 4" 9  Xandro Meurisse (BEL) An Post–Chain Reaction + 4" 10  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 4"

General Classification after Stage 6 Rider Team Time 1  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka 27h 47' 54" 2  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 13" 3  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 43" 4  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 44" 5  Dylan Teuns (BEL) BMC Racing Team + 51" 6  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Etixx–Quick-Step + 51" 7  Rubén Fernández (ESP) Movistar Team + 51" 8  Steven Kruijswijk (NED) LottoNL–Jumbo + 51" 9  Xandro Meurisse (BEL) An Post–Chain Reaction + 51" 10  Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) Tinkoff–Saxo + 51"

Stage 7

12 September 2015 — Fakenham to Ipswich, 227 kilometres (141 mi)

Stage 7 Result Rider Team Time 1  André Greipel (GER) Lotto–Soudal 5h 14' 42" 2  Elia Viviani (ITA) Team Sky s.t. 3  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) IAM Cycling s.t. 4  Mark Renshaw (AUS) Etixx–Quick-Step s.t. 5  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka s.t. 6  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS s.t. 7  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling s.t. 8  Jonas Vangenechten (BEL) IAM Cycling s.t. 9  Dylan van Baarle (NED) Cannondale–Garmin s.t. 10  Jens Debusschere (BEL) Lotto–Soudal s.t.

General Classification after Stage 7 Rider Team Time 1  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka 33h 02' 36" 2  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 13" 3  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 43" 4  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 44" 5  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Etixx–Quick-Step + 51" 6  Rubén Fernández (ESP) Movistar Team + 51" 7  Steven Kruijswijk (NED) LottoNL–Jumbo + 51" 8  Dylan van Baarle (NED) Cannondale–Garmin + 59" 9  Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) Tinkoff–Saxo + 59" 10  Xandro Meurisse (BEL) An Post–Chain Reaction + 1' 02"

Stage 8

13 September 2015 — London, 93 kilometres (58 mi)

Stage 8 Result Rider Team Time 1  Elia Viviani (ITA) Team Sky 1h 50' 16" 2  Juan José Lobato (ESP) Movistar Team s.t. 3  Matteo Trentin (ITA) Etixx–Quick-Step s.t. 4  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka s.t. 5  Jens Debusschere (BEL) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 6  Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) IAM Cycling s.t. 7  Mark Renshaw (AUS) Etixx–Quick-Step s.t. 8  Graham Briggs (GBR) JLT–Condor s.t. 9  Ruben Zepuntke (GER) Cannondale–Garmin s.t. 10  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS s.t.

General Classification after Stage 8 Rider Team Time 1  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) MTN–Qhubeka 34h 52' 52" 2  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 13" 3  Owain Doull (GBR) WIGGINS + 42" 4  Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN) Cult Energy Pro Cycling + 43" 5  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Etixx–Quick-Step + 51" 6  Rubén Fernández (ESP) Movistar Team + 51" 7  Steven Kruijswijk (NED) LottoNL–Jumbo + 51" 8  Dylan van Baarle (NED) Cannondale–Garmin + 53" 9  Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) Tinkoff–Saxo + 59" 10  Xandro Meurisse (BEL) An Post–Chain Reaction + 1' 02"

Classification leadership

Stage	Winner	General classification	Sprint Classification	Mountains Classification	Points Classification	Team Classification
1	Elia Viviani	Elia Viviani	Conor Dunne	Kristian House	Elia Viviani	Team Sky
2	Petr Vakoč	Petr Vakoč	Peter Williams	Tom Stewart	Juan José Lobato	Etixx–Quick-Step
3	Elia Viviani	Juan José Lobato
4	Fernando Gaviria				Owain Doull
5	Wout Poels	Edvald Boasson Hagen		Peter Williams		Movistar Team
6	Matteo Trentin					Cannondale–Garmin
7	André Greipel
8	Elia Viviani
Final		Edvald Boasson Hagen	Peter Williams	Peter Williams	Owain Doull	Cannondale–Garmin

Standings

Legend
	Denotes the leader of the General classification		Denotes the leader of the Points classification
	Denotes the leader of the Mountains classification		Denotes the leader of the Sprints classification

General classification

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)	MTN–Qhubeka	34h 52' 52"
2	Wout Poels (NED)	Team Sky	+ 13"
3	Owain Doull (GBR)	WIGGINS	+ 42"
4	Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN)	Cult Energy Pro Cycling	+ 43"
5	Zdeněk Štybar (CZE)	Etixx–Quick-Step	+ 51"
6	Rubén Fernández (ESP)	Movistar Team	+ 51"
7	Steven Kruijswijk (NED)	LottoNL–Jumbo	+ 51"
8	Dylan van Baarle (NED)	Cannondale–Garmin	+ 53"
9	Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN)	Tinkoff–Saxo	+ 59"
10	Xandro Meurisse (BEL)	An Post–Chain Reaction	+ 1' 02"

Points classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Owain Doull (GBR)	WIGGINS	78
2	Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)	MTN–Qhubeka	77
3	Jens Debusschere (BEL)	Lotto–Soudal	59
4	Elia Viviani (ITA)	Team Sky	53
5	Matteo Trentin (ITA)	Etixx–Quick-Step	52
6	Juan José Lobato (ESP)	Movistar Team	43
7	Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN)	Cult Energy Pro Cycling	40
8	Zdeněk Štybar (CZE)	Etixx–Quick-Step	32
9	Wout Poels (NED)	Team Sky	31
10	Alberto Bettiol (ITA)	Cannondale–Garmin	31

Mountains classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Peter Williams (GBR)	ONE Pro Cycling	36
2	Tom Stewart (GBR)	Madison Genesis	34
3	Mark McNally (GBR)	Madison Genesis	29
4	Ian Bibby (GBR)	NFTO	28
5	Conor Dunne (IRL)	An Post–Chain Reaction	26
6	Wout Poels (NED)	Team Sky	21
7	Kristian House (GBR)	JLT–Condor	20
8	Tyler Farrar (USA)	MTN–Qhubeka	18
9	Danilo Wyss (SUI)	BMC Racing Team	15
10	Steven Kruijswijk (NED)	LottoNL–Jumbo	14

Sprints classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Peter Williams (GBR)	ONE Pro Cycling	18
2	Conor Dunne (IRL)	An Post–Chain Reaction	11
3	Danilo Wyss (SUI)	BMC Racing Team	10
4	Pim Ligthart (NED)	Lotto–Soudal	8
5	Alex Dowsett (GBR)	Movistar Team	8
6	Dylan van Baarle (NED)	Cannondale–Garmin	7
7	Graham Briggs (GBR)	JLT–Condor	7
8	Matteo Trentin (ITA)	Etixx–Quick-Step	6
9	Russell Downing (GBR)	Cult Energy Pro Cycling	6
10	Marcin Białobłocki (POL)	ONE Pro Cycling	4

Team classification

	Team	Time
1	Cannondale–Garmin	104h 42' 38"
2	Team Sky	+ 5' 35"
3	Tinkoff–Saxo	+ 5' 35"
4	Movistar Team	+ 44' 37"
5	LottoNL–Jumbo	+ 47' 35"
6	IAM Cycling	+ 52' 46"
7	Great Britain	+ 55' 01"
8	Etixx–Quick-Step	+ 1h 01' 51"
9	Cult Energy Pro Cycling	+ 1h 09' 40"
10	Lotto–Soudal	+ 1h 43' 55"