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The 2015 Giro d'Italia began on 9 May, and stage 11 occurred on 20 May. The race began with a team time trial from San Lorenzo al Mare to Sanremo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Giro d'Italia 2015 )〕 ==Stage 1== ;9 May 2015 — San Lorenzo al Mare to Sanremo, , team time trial (TTT) The 2015 Giro started with a team time trial in Liguria, a feature included every year since the 2006 Giro. The course was flat, but almost entirely along the Riviera del Flori cycle path. It concluded on the Lungomare Italo Calvino in Sanremo, finish to the Milan–San Remo race between 2008 and 2014. were believed to be the favourites, having won the 2015 Tour de Romandie team time trial a week before the race started, along with , the winners of last year's team time trial in Belfast who desired a win in the TTT by including multiple time-trial specialists in their lineup. were the first team to start, with teams starting after every five minutes. They recorded a time of 20' 25" but their time was only good enough for the second slowest time on the stage. Their time was shortly bettered by , who were 11 seconds faster. The first competitive time was set by . The Kazach team set a time of 19' 39" which was good enough to hold the lead for an hour. Some of the favourites for the stage like , and set competitive times but they couldn't knock Astana off the hot seat. Eventually, only two teams were able to beat Astana's time. The first team to beat their time was . They stopped the clock in 19' 26", a time which was good enough for the stage-winning time. The only team to go closer to Orica's time was , who were the fastest at the checkpoint. However they faded in the second half of the course, handing Orica the win. Simon Gerrans was first over the line, making him the first leader, although he claimed later that he wouldn't keep it for long, and that Michael Matthews would probably take it in the sprint the next day. As for the GC contenders, Alberto Contador of Tinkoff-Saxo was the best-placed rider as he was only 7 seconds off the lead. His advantage over Fabio Aru of Astana was 6 seconds and his advantage over Rigoberto Urán of Etixx-Quick Step was 12 seconds. Richie Porte of Team Sky suffered the most as he lost 20 seconds to Contador and he lost significant time to other GC contenders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Giro d'Italia: Orica-GreenEdge win team time trial )〕 |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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