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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 and visited Liechtenstein and Austria on its fifth stage. There was only one mountaintop finish, on the aforementioned stage five. The winner of the general classification was Slovenian Simon Špilak of , who won the race by a margin of only five seconds from Great Britain's Geraint Thomas (). The ultimate selection was made on the last day's individual time trial. Tom Dumoulin of the squad rounded up the podium. The latter won the two individual time trials, on the first and last stage. The mountains classification was awarded to Austria's Stefan Denifl (), who featured in many breakaways to amass his points. The sprints classification was won by Slovakian Peter Sagan () 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 , Australian Michael Matthews (), Norwegian Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha) and Kazakh Alexey Lutsenko of . 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. ==Teams== As a UCI World Tour event, the organisation was in an obligation to invite all seventeen UCI WorldTeams, and likewise, all seventeen teams were obligated to send a squad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UCI Cycling Regulations: Part 2: Road Races page 110 article 2.15.127 )〕 To complete the field, two UCI Professional Continental teams were invited to join the race. The number of riders allowed per team was eight, so the starting field contained 152 cyclists. 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 Tour de Suisse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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