The 2015 Volta a Portugal was a men's road bicycle race held from 29 July to 9 August 2015. It is the 77th edition of the men's stage race to be held, which was established in 1927. As part of the 2015 UCI Europe Tour, it is rated as a 2.1 event. Just before the start, the race was marked by controversy due to UCI an regulation amendment restricting the teams to 8 riders (with exception of the 3 big races-Giro, Tour and Vuelta), issue just one month before the Volta. The race director, Joaquim Gomes achieved an exception and the teams raced with 9 riders each. Gustavo Veloso repeated the 2014 success.
Participating teams In total, 16 teams are set to compete.
National teams:
International teams:
Schedule StageRouteDistanceDateTypeWinner PViseu > Viseu6 km July 29 Individual time trial 1Pinhel > Bragança196.8 km July 30 Flat stage 2Macedo de Cavaleiros > Montalegre - Serra do Larouco175.6 km July 31 Medium-mountain stage 3Boticas > Fafe172.2 km August 1 Flat stage 4Alvarenga (Arouca) > Mondim de Basto (Srª da Graça)159.4 km August 2 Mountain stage 5Braga > Viana do Castelo-Monte Santa Luzia169.4 km August 3 Medium-mountain stage 6Ovar > Oliveira de Azeméis154.1 km August 4 Flat stage 7Condeixa-a-Nova > Torre171.3 km August 6 Mountain stage 8Guarda > Castelo Branco180.2 km August 7 Flat stage 9Pedrógão Beach > Leiria34.2 km August 8 Individual time trial 10Vila Franca de Xira > Lisbon132.5 km August 9 Flat stage
Classification leadership Stage Winner General classificationClassificação Geral Individual Points classificationClassificação dos Pontos Mountains classificationClassificação da Montanha Young rider classificationClassificação da Juventude Team classificationClassificação por Equipas PGaetan BilleGaetan Bille not awarded not awardedLuca Capelli 1Vicente de MateosVicente de MateosBruno SilvaHector Benito 2 Delio FernándezGustavo VelosoJosé GonçalvesLuca Capelli 3 Davide ViganòDavide Viganò 4Filipe CardosoFilipe Cardoso Aleksey Rybalkin 5 José GonçalvesGustavo Veloso 6 Gustavo Veloso 7 Delio Fernández 8 Eduard Prades 9 Gustavo Veloso 10 Matteo Malucelli Final ClassificationGustavo VelosoGustavo Veloso Bruno SilvaAleksey Rybalkin
Classification standings
Prologue 29 July 2015 — Viseu, 6 km individual time trial (ITT)
Prologue result and general classification RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 3" 3 + 9" 4 + 13" 5 + 16" 6 + 17" 7 + 18" 8 + 18" 9 + 19" 10 + 20"
Stage 1 30 July 2015 — Pinhel to Bragança, 196.8 km
Stage 1 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 s.t. 4 s.t. 5 s.t. 6 s.t. 7 s.t. 8 s.t. 9 s.t. 10 s.t.General classification after Stage 1 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 3" 3 + 15" 4 + 16" 5 + 18" 6 + 18" 7 + 19" 8 + 20" 9 + 21" 10 + 22"
Stage 2 31 July 2015 — Macedo de Cavaleiros to Montalegre - Serra do Larouco, 175.6 km
Stage 2 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 1" 3 + 6" 4 s.t. 5 + 8" 6 s.t. 7 + 13" 8 + 14" 9 s.t. 10 + 15"General classification after Stage 2 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 3" 3 + 6" 4 + 28" 5 + 31" 6 s.t. 7 + 32" 8 + 34" 9 + 35" 10 + 37"
Stage 3 1 August 2015 — Boticas to Fafe, 172.2 km
Stage 3 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 s.t. 4 s.t. 5 s.t. 6 s.t. 7 s.t. 8 s.t. 9 s.t. 10 s.t.General classification after Stage 3 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 9" 3 + 12" 4 + 34" 5 + 37" 6 s.t. 7 + 38" 8 + 40" 9 + 41" 10 + 43"
Stage 4 2 August 2015 — Alvarenga (Arouca) to Mondim de Basto (Srª da Graça), 159.4 km
Stage 4 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 s.t. 4 + 4" 5 s.t. 6 + 8" 7 s.t. 8 + 16" 9 + 23" 10 + 25"General classification after Stage 4 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 17" 3 + 35" 4 + 45" 5 + 55" 6 + 1' 01" 7 + 1' 09" 8 + 1' 14" 9 + 1' 24" 10 + 1' 30"
Stage 5 3 August 2015 — Braga to Viana do Castelo, 169.4 km
Stage 5 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 s.t. 4 + 2" 5 + 3" 6 s.t. 7 s.t. 8 s.t. 9 s.t. 10 s.t.General classification after Stage 5 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 15" 3 + 41" 4 + 52" 5 + 1' 02" 6 + 1' 08" 7 + 1' 16" 8 + 1' 26" 9 + 1' 36" 10 + 1' 37"
Stage 6 4 August 2015 — Ovar to Oliveira de Azeméis, 154.1 km
Stage 6 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 s.t. 4 s.t. 5 s.t. 6 s.t. 7 s.t. 8 s.t. 9 s.t. 10 s.t.General classification after Stage 6 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 21" 3 + 51" 4 + 1' 02" 5 + 1' 12" 6 + 1' 18" 7 + 1' 26" 8 + 1' 36" 9 + 1' 46" 10 + 1' 47"
Stage 7 6 August 2015 — Condeixa-a-Nova to Torre, 171.31 km
Stage 7 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 + 4" 4 + 7" 5 + 10" 6 + 14" 7 + 19" 8 s.t. 9 + 34" 10 + 48"General classification after Stage 7 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 14" 3 + 57" 4 + 1' 28" 5 + 1' 51" 6 + 2' 11" 7 + 2' 20" 8 + 2' 27" 9 s.t. 10 + 3' 03"
Stage 8 7 August 2015 — Guarda to Castelo Branco, 180.2 km
Stage 8 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 s.t. 4 s.t. 5 Team Ecuador s.t. 6 s.t. 7 s.t. 8 s.t. 9 s.t. 10 s.t.General classification after Stage 8 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 14" 3 + 57" 4 + 1' 28" 5 + 1' 51" 6 + 2' 11" 7 + 2' 20" 8 + 2' 27" 9 s.t. 10 + 3' 03"
Stage 9 8 August 2015 — ITT Pedrógão Beach to Leiria, 34.2 km
Stage 9 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 26" 3 + 35" 4 + 50" 5 + 56" 6 + 57" 7 + 1' 00" 8 + 1' 03" 9 + 1' 10" 10 + 1' 21"General classification after Stage 9 RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 2'12" 3 + 2' 19" 4 + 2' 57" 5 + 2'58" 6 + 3' 20" 7 + 3'45" 8 + 4 '32" 9 + 4' 33" 10 + 5' 27"
Stage 10 9 August 2015 — Vila Franca de Xira to Lisbon, 132.5 km
Stage 10 result RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 s.t. 3 s.t. 4 s.t. 5 s.t. 6 s.t. 7 Team Ecuador s.t. 8 s.t. 9 s.t. 10 s.t.Final General classification RankRiderTeamTime 1 2 + 2'12" 3 + 2' 19" 4 + 2' 57" 5 + 2'58" 6 + 3' 20" 7 + 3'45" 8 + 4 '32" 9 + 4' 33" 10 + 5' 27"
Final standings
General classificationPosRiderTeamTime1 40h 10' 39"2 + 2'12"3 + 2' 19"4 + 2' 57"5 + 2'58"6 + 3' 20"7 + 3'45"8 + 4 '32"9 + 4' 33"10 + 5' 27"
Points classificationPosRiderTeamPoints1 W52–Quinta da Lixa1182 1033 93
Mountains classificationPosRiderTeamPoints1 LA Alumínios–Antarte802 503 44
Youth classificationPosRiderTeamTime1 40h 12' 01"2 + 14' 13"3 +15' 03"
Teams classificationPosTeamTime1120h 07' 56"2 + 6' 29s3 + 7' 36s
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