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Stage 15: Sunday, May 25, Valdengo - Montecampione, 217 km

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The Race: Another stage dedicated to Marco Pantani, and in particular to his stage 19 victory over Pavel Tonkov at Montecampione in 1998. That year Pantani went on to win the Tour de France, as well.

About 15 km into the race about twelve riders broke loose. With 20 km to go and about the start of the Montecampione ascent, the escape's gap was just 2min 19sec and falling fast.

Adam Hansen (joined soon thereafter by Fernanado André Cardoso) jumped away from the break, seeking a stage win and from the maglia rosa group KOM Julian Arredondo and Enrico Zardini attacked.

Under the 10 km banner the gap from the leaders (Cardoso, Arredondo) to the maglia rosa group was 26 seconds. Sky rider Phillip Deignan blew by the two leaders. And then the maglia rosa group, led by Michael Rogers, caught all breakaways except Deignan (who was in the big ring!).

Under the 5 km banner Deignan had 22 seconds on a really reduced maglia rosa group.

Bam! Rigoberto Uran and Pierre Rolland attack and then Evans counter-attacks. The leaders re-group. Rolland goes and this time gets a gap and bridges to Deignan and then drops the Irishman.

Three km to go: Fabio Aru lights the jets and takes Uran, Evans struggles and can't catch Uran's wheel.

Two km, Aru drops everyone and presses on, chased by Quintana, Rolland and Fabio Duarte. And then Uran. Evans falls further back. Domenico Pozzovivo seems to have nothing today.

Fabio Aru holds everyone off to win the stage.

Complete Results:

1	Fabio Aru	Astana	5:33:06
2	Fabio Andres Duarte	Colombia	@ 21 seconds
3	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	0:22
4	Pierre Rolland	Europcar
5	Rigoberto Uran	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	0:42
6	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff-Saxo	0:57
7	Franco Pellizotti	Androni Giocattoli	1:08
8	Daniel Moreno	Katusha	1:08
9	Ryder Hesjedal	Garmin-Sharp	1:13
10	Cadel Evans	BMC
11	Wilco Kelderman	Belkin
12	Domenico Pozzovivo	Ag2r
13	Robert Kiserlovski	Trek Factory Racing
14	Philip Deignan	SKY
15	Ivan Basso	Cannondale	2:17
16	Steve Morabito	BMC
17	Wouter Poels	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	3:13
18	Fernando Andre Cardoso	Garmin-Sharp
19	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	3:19
20	Alexis Vuillermoz	Ag2r
21	Jose' Herrada	Movistar	3:30
22	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	3:39
23	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Belisol	4:45
24	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Belisol
25	Perrig Quemeneur	Europcar	5:03
26	Igor Anton	Movistar	5:14
27	Paolo Tiralongo	Astana	5:16
28	Michele Scarponi	Astana
29	Alberto Losada	Katusha
30	Matteo Rabottini	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	5:58
31	Edoardo Zardini	Bardiani-CSF
32	Marc Goos	Belkin	6:55
33	Matteo Montaguti	Ag2r	7:04
34	Nicholas Roche	Tinkoff-Saxo	7:08
35	Michael Rogers	Tinkoff-Saxo
36	Emanuele Sella	Androni Giocattoli	7:42
37	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	7:49
38	Eduard Vorganov	Katusha	8:59
39	Sander Armee	Lotto-Belisol	9:07
40	Evgeny Petrov	Tinkoff-Saxo	9:15
41	Ivan Rovny	Tinkoff-Saxo	9:15
42	Hubert Dupont	Ag2r	9:36
43	Stefano Pirazzi	Bardiani-CSF	9:41
44	Rodolfo Torres	Colombia	9:56
45	Damiano Cunego	Lampre-Merida
46	Sebastian Henao	SKY
47	Gianluca Brambilla	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	10:34
48	Julian David Arredondo	Trek Factory Racing	10:56
49	Georg Preidler	Giant-Shimano	11:05
50	Vladimir Gusev	Katusha	11:07
51	Riccardo Zoidl	Trek Factory Racing	11:36
52	Maxime Bouet	Ag2r	11:46
53	Mikel Landa	Astana	12:15
54	Ben Hermans	BMC	13:44
55	Francis Mourey	FDJ	15:08
56	Fabio Felline	Trek Factory Racing	15:57
57	Julien Berard	Ag2r	16:46
58	Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar	17:00
59	Romain Sicard	Europcar	17:14
60	Daniele Ratto	Cannondale	18:39
61	Enrico Barbin	Bardiani-CSF	18:39
62	Simone Ponzi	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	19:17
63	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli
64	Valerio Agnoli	Astana
65	Andrey Zeits	Astana
66	Luca Paolini	Katusha
67	Jay Mccarthy	Tinkoff-Saxo
68	Jonathan Monsalve	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo
69	Thomas Dekker	Garmin-Sharp
70	Lars Ytting Bak	Lotto-Belisol
71	Przemyslaw Niemiec	Lampre-Merida
72	Tosh Van Der Sande	Lotto-Belisol
73	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida
74	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff-Saxo
75	Dario Cataldo	SKY
76	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek Factory Racing
77	Winner Anacona	Lampre-Merida
78	Christopher  Juul Jensen	Tinkoff-Saxo
79	Miguel Angel Rubiano	Colombia
80	Fabio Leonardo Duque	Colombia
81	Jarlinson Pantano	Colombia
82	Axel Domont	Ag2r
83	Jeffry Johan Romero	Colombia
84	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r
85	Pieter Serry	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
86	Maarten Tjallingii	Belkin
87	Martijn Keizer	Belkin
88	Davide Malacarne	Europcar
89	Manuel Francesco Bongiorno	Bardiani-CSF
90	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani-CSF
91	Yonder Godoy	Androni Giocattoli
92	Serge Pauwels	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
93	Bjorn Thurau	Europcar
94	Mattia Cattaneo	Lampre-Merida
95	Jackson Rodriguez	Androni Giocattoli
96	Robinson Chalapud	Colombia
97	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani-CSF
98	Maxim Belkov	Katusha
99	Ivan Santaromita	Orica-GreenEdge
100	Diego Ulissi	Lampre-Merida	19:40
101	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida
102	Simon Geschke	Giant-Shimano	19:55
103	Manuele Mori	Lampre-Merida	20:21
104	Enrico Gasparotto	Astana	21:19
105	Nathan Haas	Garmin-Sharp	21:40
106	Thomas De Gendt	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	22:07
107	Danilo Wyss	BMC
108	Borut Bozic	Astana	22:23
109	Danilo Hondo	Trek Factory Racing	22:31
110	Johnny Hoogerland	Androni Giocattoli	24:16
111	Johan Le Bon	FDJ	24:30
112	Gert Dockx	Lotto-Belisol	27:41
113	Tim Wellens	Lotto-Belisol
114	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	28:15
115	Eros Capecchi	Movistar
116	Mauro Finetto	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo
117	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Shimano	28:27
118	David Tanner	Belkin
119	Tyler Farrar	Garmin-Sharp
120	Kenny Haes De	Lotto-Belisol
121	Andrey Amador	Movistar
122	Jos Van Emden	Belkin
123	Adriano Malori	Movistar
124	Ben Swift	SKY
125	Rick Flens	Belkin
126	Salvatore Puccio	SKY
127	Albert Timmer	Giant-Shimano
128	Paolo  Longo Borghini	Cannondale
129	Christopher Sutton	SKY
130	Francisco Ventoso	Movistar
131	Edvald Boasson Hagen	SKY
132	Angelo Tulik	Europcar
133	Tony Hurel	Europcar
134	Bernhard Eisel	SKY
135	Alessandro Petacchi	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
136	Tom Veelers	Giant-Shimano	28:41
137	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	29:07
138	Svein Tuft	Orica-GreenEdge
139	Yukiya Arashiro	Europcar
140	Diego Rosa	Androni Giocattoli	29:42
141	Daniele Colli	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	29:51
142	Nacer Bouhanni	FDJ	29:53
143	Laurent Pichon	FDJ
144	Julien Vermote	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	29:58
145	Jussi Veikkanen	FDJ
146	Carlosjulian Quintero	Colombia
147	Marco Bandiera	Androni Giocattoli
148	Oscar Gatto	Cannondale
149	Arnaud Courteille	FDJ
150	Manuel Quinziato	BMC
151	Elia Viviani	Cannondale
152	Moreno Moser	Cannondale
153	Alan Marangoni	Cannondale
154	Nicola Boem	Bardiani-CSF
155	Antonio Murilo Fischer	FDJ
156	Daniel Oss	BMC
157	Marco Canola	Bardiani-CSF
158	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida
159	Boy Poppel Van	Trek Factory Racing
160	Jetse Bol	Belkin
161	Bert De Backer	Giant-Shimano
162	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek Factory Racing	31:10
163	Sebastien Chavanel	FDJ
164	Michel Koch	Cannondale
165	Eugenio Alafaci	Trek Factory Racing
166	Iljo Keisse	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
167	Andrea Fedi	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo
168	Luka Mezgec	Giant-Shimano	31:22

GC after Stage 15:

1	Rigoberto Uran	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	63hr 26min 39sec
2	Cadel Evans	BMC	@ 1min 3sec
3	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff-Saxo	1:50
4	Fabio Aru	Astana	2:24
5	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	2:40
6	Domenico Pozzovivo	Ag2r	2:42
7	Wilco Kelderman	Belkin	3:04
8	Pierre Rolland	Europcar	4:47
9	Robert Kiserlovski	Trek Factory Racing	5:44
10	Wouter Poels	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	6:32
11	Ryder Hesjedal	Garmin-Sharp	6:44
12	Ivan Basso	Cannondale	7:42
13	Steve Morabito	BMC	8:48
14	Alexis Vuillermoz	Ag2r	10:45
15	Franco Pellizotti	Androni Giocattoli	11:02
16	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	13:08
17	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Belisol	13:37
18	Matteo Rabottini	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	14:25
19	Fabio Andres Duarte	Colombia	14:46
20	Jose' Herrada	Movistar	14:59
21	Damiano Cunego	Lampre-Merida	19:45
22	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	19:53
23	Hubert Dupont	Ag2r	20:19
24	Gianluca Brambilla	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	26:05
25	Michael Rogers	Tinkoff-Saxo	26:15
26	Diego Ulissi	Lampre-Merida	26:19
27	Georg Preidler	Giant-Shimano	28:14
28	Fernando Andre Cardoso	Garmin-Sharp	30:24
29	Nicholas Roche	Tinkoff-Saxo	39:44
30	Davide Malacarne	Europcar	43:07
31	Sebastian Henao	SKY	43:14
32	Daniel Moreno	Katusha	47:12
33	Paolo Tiralongo	Astana	48:04
34	V Pantano	Colombia	48:06
35	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	48:22
36	Bjorn Thurau	Europcar	49:06
37	Serge Pauwels	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	49:24
38	Mikel Landa	Astana	49:50
39	Maxime Bouet	Ag2r	51:01
40	Ivan Santaromita	Orica-GreenEdge	51:58
41	Francis Mourey	FDJ	52:07
42	Marc Goos	Belkin	53:59
43	Dario Cataldo	SKY	55:24
44	Matteo Montaguti	Ag2r	56:38
45	Sander Armee	Lotto-Belisol	57:52
46	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff-Saxo	58:45
47	Alberto Losada	Katusha	1:00:00
48	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani-CSF	1:00:11
49	Riccardo Zoidl	Trek Factory Racing	1:01:21
50	Przemyslaw Niemiec	Lampre-Merida	1:03:10
51	Igor Anton	Movistar	1:06:04
52	Ivan Rovny	Tinkoff-Saxo	1:07:01
53	Evgeny Petrov	Tinkoff-Saxo	1:07:15
54	Michele Scarponi	Astana	1:07:35
55	Philip Deignan	SKY	1:11:39
56	Julien Berard	Ag2r	1:13:25
57	Eduard Vorganov	Katusha	1:14:35
58	Mauro Finetto	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	1:15:21
59	Valerio Agnoli	Astana	1:18:55
60	Jonathan Monsalve	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	1:21:07
61	Vladimir Gusev	Katusha	1:21:43
62	Romain Sicard	Europcar	1:21:46
63	Julian David Arredondo	Trek Factory Racing	1:22:45
64	Axel Domont	Ag2r	1:23:25
65	Lars Ytting Bak	Lotto-Belisol	1:23:27
66	Francesco Manuel Bongiorno	Bardiani-CSF	1:25:00
67	Fabio Leonardo Duque	Colombia	1:25:40
68	Ben Hermans	BMC	1:27:24
69	Emanuele Sella	Androni Giocattoli	1:28:55
70	Martijn Keizer	Belkin	1:30:43
71	Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar	1:30:54
72	Mattia Cattaneo	Lampre-Merida	1:31:00
73	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Belisol	1:31:03
74	Edvald Boasson Hagen	SKY	1:32:30
75	Rodolfo Torres	Colombia	1:35:02
76	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	1:37:23
77	Pieter Serry	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	1:37:41
78	Edoardo Zardini	Bardiani-CSF	1:38:11
79	Robinson Chalapud	Colombia	1:38:56
80	Jackson Rodriguez	Androni Giocattoli	1:39:57
81	Tim Wellens	Lotto-Belisol	1:40:16
82	Perrig Quemeneur	Europcar	1:40:24
83	Simon Geschke	Giant-Shimano	1:41:52
84	Diego Rosa	Androni Giocattoli	1:42:16
85	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	1:43:33
86	Yonder Godoy	Androni Giocattoli	1:43:41
87	Eros Capecchi	Movistar	1:45:11
88	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	1:45:47
89	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek Factory Racing	1:46:34
90	Miguel Angel Rubiano	Colombia	1:46:36
91	Albert Timmer	Giant-Shimano	1:48:43
92	Julien Vermote	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	1:49:30
93	Johan Le Bon	FDJ	1:49:58
94	Danilo Wyss	BMC	1:50:54
95	Stefano Pirazzi	Bardiani-CSF	1:53:42
96	Maarten Tjallingii	Belkin	1:55:58
97	Winner Anacona	Lampre-Merida	1:56:49
98	Salvatore Puccio	SKY	1:56:53
99	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani-CSF	1:57:16
100	Tosh Van Der Sande	Lotto-Belisol	1:57:58
101	Thomas De V	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	1:59:50
102	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	2:02:55
103	Fabio Felline	Trek Factory Racing	2:04:28
104	Paolo Longo Borghini	Cannondale	2:05:55
105	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	2:07:43
106	Jay Mccarthy	Tinkoff-Saxo	2:08:05
107	Enrico Gasparotto	Astana	2:08:07
108	Danilo Hondo	Trek Factory Racing	2:08:09
109	Johnny Hoogerland	Androni Giocattoli	2:10:12
110	Carlosjulian Quintero	Colombia	2:10:34
111	Andrey Zeits	Astana	2:11:36
112	Luca Paolini	Katusha	2:11:52
113	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli	2:13:05
114	Jussi Veikkanen	FDJ	2:13:20
115	Simone Ponzi	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	2:13:59
116	Thomas Dekker	Garmin-Sharp	2:16:29
117	Enrico Barbin	Bardiani-CSF	2:18:02
118	Adriano Malori	Movistar	2:18:20
119	Nathan Haas	Garmin-Sharp	2:18:34
120	Manuel Quinziato	BMC	2:19:11
121	Manuele Mori	Lampre-Merida	2:19:50
122	Oscar Gatto	Cannondale	2:20:43
123	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	2:21:31
124	Alessandro Petacchi	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	2:24:07
125	Daniel Oss	BMC	2:26:08
126	Angelo Tulik	Europcar	2:26:13
127	Francisco Ventoso	Movistar	2:26:38
128	Borut Bozic	Astana	2:26:38
129	David Tanner	Belkin	2:26:49
130	Marco Canola	Bardiani-CSF	2:27:38
131	Jos Van Emden	Belkin	2:27:56
132	Daniele Ratto	Cannondale	2:28:19
133	Christopher Juul Jensen	Tinkoff-Saxo	2:28:32
134	Andrey Amador	Movistar	2:30:26
135	Gert Dockx	Lotto-Belisol	2:31:06
136	Yukiya Arashiro	Europcar	2:33:25
137	Nicola Boem	Bardiani-CSF	2:39:04
138	Bert De Backer	Giant-Shimano	2:39:26
139	Boy Van Poppel	Trek Factory Racing	2:39:40
140	Laurent Pichon	FDJ	2:40:48
141	Tony Hurel	Europcar	2:41:27
142	Antonio Murilo Fischer	FDJ	2:43:03
143	Ben Swift	SKY	2:44:17
144	Rick Flens	Belkin	2:44:25
145	Alan Marangoni	Cannondale	2:44:50
146	Nacer Bouhanni	FDJ	2:46:31
147	Tom Veelers	Giant-Shimano	2:46:45
148	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek Factory Racing	2:46:56
149	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	2:47:30
150	Jeffry Johan Romero	Colombia	2:49:31
151	Iljo Keisse	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	2:49:45
152	Daniele Colli	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	2:50:53
153	Elia Viviani	Cannondale	2:50:59
154	Sebastien Chavanel	FDJ	2:51:24
155	Tyler Farrar	Garmin-Sharp	2:51:30
156	Bernhard Eisel	SKY	2:53:32
157	Marco Bandiera	Androni Giocattoli	2:53:39
158	Luka Mezgec	Giant-Shimano	2:55:44
159	Andrea Fedi	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	2:57:07
160	Eugenio Alafaci	Trek Factory Racing	2:58:50
161	Michel Koch	Cannondale	3:03:19
162	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Shimano	3:07:03
163	Christopher Sutton	SKY	3:07:54
164	Kenny De Haes	Lotto-Belisol	3:13:59
165	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	3:15:42
166	Svein Tuft	Orica-GreenEdge	3:20:01
167	Arnaud Courteille	FDJ	3:25:38
168	Jetse Bol	Belkin	3:26:16

Points Classification:

1	Nacer Bouhanni	FDJ	251 points
2	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek Factory Racing	225
3	Elia Viviani	Cannondale	173
4	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	161
5	Ben Swift	SKY	130
6	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani-CSF	96
7	Cadel Evans	BMC	95
8	Diego Ulissi	Lampre-Merida	78
9	Luka Mezgec	Giant-Shimano	78
10	Rigoberto Uran	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	71

Mountains Classification:

1	Julian David Arredondo	Trek Factory Racing	75 points
2	Tim Wellens	Lotto-Belisol	57
3	Diego Ulissi	Lampre-Merida	39
4	Jonathan Monsalve	Neri Sottoli-Yellow Fluo	39
5	Fabio Aru	Astana	33
6	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani-CSF	32
7	Nicholas Roche	Tinkoff-Saxo	27
8	Stefano Pirazzi	Bardiani-CSF	26
9	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	24
10	Dario Cataldo	SKY	22

Young Rider:

1	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff-Saxo	68hr  28min 29sec
2	Fabio Aru	Astana	@ 34 seconds
3	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	0:50
4	Wilco Kelderman	Belkin	1:14
5	Diego Ulissi	Lampre-Merida	24:29
6	Georg Preidler	Giant-Shimano	26:24
7	Sebastian Henao	SKY	41:24
8	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	46:32
9	Mikel Landa	Astana	48:00
10	Marc Goos	Belkin	52:09

Team Classification:

1	Omega Pharma - Quick Step	189hr 51min 36sec
2	Ag2R La Mondiale	@ 1min 54sec
3	Bmc Racing Team	8:15
4	Astana Pro Team	20:07
5	Movistar Team	23:38
6	Tinkoff Saxo	23:38
7	Lampre - Merida	52:30
8	Team Europcar	54:41
9	Colombia	1:00:15
10	Trek Factory Racing	1:02:24

Stage 15 photos:

White Jersey Rafal Majka leads the big dogs up the Montecampione ascent.

Fabio Duarte and Pierre Rolland

For a while it looked like Phillip Deinan was headed for a stage win.

Cadel Evans lost time today.

Fabio Aru heads for the finish.

Fabio Aru delivered the goods today.

The maglia rosa finishes.

Stage winner Fabio Aru

Rigoberto Uran extended his lead over Evans today.

Stage 15 map and profile:

Stage 15 map

Stage 15 profile

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