Search our site:

2015 Vuelta a España

70th Edition: August 22 - September 13, 2015

Stage 1, Saturday, August 22

Back to 2015 Vuelta |

Stage 1, Saturday August 22: Puerto Banús - Marbella 7.4 km team time trial

Stage 1 map and profile | photos | Stage 1 video

Stage winner BMC crosses the finish line at twilight

The Race: Because of safety concerns over the day's irregular course, results will count only towards team classification, not individual GC. Today's stage was for pride of place. In fact, BMC was undecided before the stage start as to whether they should go all-out and try to win the stage since it would not advance the GC ambitions. In the end they did decide to kick out all the watts they could.

The result? BMC and Tinkoff-Saxo continued their team time trial rivalry. At the Tour de France, BMC had also beaten Tinkoff-Saxo by a fraction of a second.

As BMC's first rider across the line, Peter Velits will wear the leader's red jersey tomorrow

The riders will start tomorrow's 158.7 kilometer stage at zero in the GC.

Results:

photos | video

7.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 54.367 km/hr

1	BMC RACING TEAM	8min 10sec
2	TINKOFF - SAXO	@ 1sec
3	ORICA GreenEDGE	s.t.
4	TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO	+ 00' 08''
5	ETIXX - QUICK STEP	+ 00' 10''
6	TREK FACTORY RACING	+ 00' 11''
7	LOTTO SOUDAL	+ 00' 18''
8	CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA	s.t.
9	MOVISTAR TEAM	+ 00' 24''
10	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	+ 00' 27''
11	IAM CYCLING	s.t.
12	LAMPRE - MERIDA	s.t.
13	ASTANA PRO TEAM	+ 00' 30''
14	MTN - QHUBEKA	s.t.
15	COLOMBIA	+ 00' 33''
16	FDJ	+ 00' 44''
17	TEAM KATUSHA	+ 00' 54''
18	AG2R LA MONDIALE	@ 1min 0sec
19	TEAM GIANT - ALPECIN	+ 01' 07''
20	TEAM SKY	+ 01' 11''
21	TEAM CANNONDALE - GARMIN	+ 01' 20''
22	TEAM EUROPCAR	+ 02' 15''