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2015 USA Pro Cycling Challenge - Wikipedia

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2015 USA Pro Cycling Challenge

2015 UCI America Tour

Race details

Dates

August 17–23, 2015

Stages

Results

Winner	Rohan Dennis (AUS)	(BMC Racing Team)
Second	Brent Bookwalter (USA)	(BMC Racing Team)
Third	Rob Britton (CAN)	(Team SmartStop)

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The 2015 USA Pro Cycling Challenge was the fifth edition of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge stage race. Once again, the race was included on the UCI America Tour, with a UCI classification of 2.HC. The race took place between August 17–23, 2015 as a seven-day, seven-stage race, traversing the state of Colorado. The race was won by Rohan Dennis of BMC Racing Team.

Participating teams

In August, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge announced a sixteen-team field, made up of four UCI WorldTeams, four UCI Professional Continental Teams and eight UCI Continental Teams, thus giving the race a total of sixteen-teams (the same as in 2014).^[1]

UCI WorldTeams

UCI Professional Continental Teams

UCI Continental Teams

Stages

Stage results
Stage	Date	Route	Terrain	Length	Winner
1	17 August	Steamboat Springs Circuit	Hilly stage	156 km (97 mi)	Taylor Phinney (USA)
2	18 August	Steamboat Springs – Arapahoe Basin	Medium-mountain stage	186 km (116 mi)	Brent Bookwalter (USA)
3	19 August	Copper Mountain Resort – Aspen	Medium-mountain stage	163 km (101 mi)	Kiel Reijnen (USA)
4	20 August	Aspen – Breckenridge	Mountain stage	203 km (126 mi)	Rohan Dennis (AUS)
5	21 August	Breckenridge	Individual time trial	14 km (8.7 mi)	Rohan Dennis (AUS)
6	22 August	Loveland – Fort Collins	Medium-mountain stage	165 km (103 mi)	Roman Kreuziger (CZE)
7	23 August	Golden – Denver	Medium-mountain stage	110 km (68 mi)	John Murphy (USA)
	Total		845 km (525 mi)

Classification leadership

In the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, five jerseys are awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist, the leader receives a yellow jersey.^[2] This classification is considered the most important of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, and the winner of the general classification will be considered the winner of the event.^[3]

Additionally, there is also a sprints classification, akin to what is called the points classification in other races, which awards a green jersey.^[2] Points are gathered at sprint line performances as well as finishing the stage in the top-fifteen places.^[3]

There is also a mountains classification, which awards a red jersey.^[2] In the mountains classifications, points are won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb is categorized, either first, second, third, or fourth category, with more points available for the harder climbs.^[3]

There is also a youth classification. This classification is calculated the same way as the general classification, but only young cyclists (under 23) are included.^[3] The leader of the young rider classification receives a blue jersey.^[2]

The last jersey is awarded to the most aggressive rider of a stage for him to wear on the next stage.^[3] It is generally awarded to a rider who attacks constantly or spends a lot of time in the breakaways. This jersey is orange.^[2]

There is also a classification for teams. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per stage are added, and the team with the lowest time is the leader.

Stage	Winner	General classification	Sprints classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Most Aggressive	Best Colorado Rider	Team classification
1	Taylor Phinney	Taylor Phinney	Taylor Phinney	Jonathan Clarke	Logan Owen	Guillaume Boivin	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team
2	Brent Bookwalter	Brent Bookwalter	Taylor Phinney	Will Routley	Hugh Carthy	Nate Brown	Alexandr Braico
3	Kiel Reijnen	Brent Bookwalter	Kiel Reijnen	Will Routley		Laurent Didier
4	Rohan Dennis	Rohan Dennis	Rohan Dennis	Rohan Dennis		Robbie Squire
5	Rohan Dennis		Rohan Dennis		Tao Geoghegan Hart	Robbie Squire
6	Roman Kreuziger		Kiel Reijnen			Roman Kreuziger
7	John Murphy		Kiel Reijnen			Javier Mejías
Final		Rohan Dennis	Kiel Reijnen	Rohan Dennis	Tao Geoghegan Hart	Javier Mejías	Alexandr Braico	BMC Racing Team

References

^ USA Pro Challenge announces teams line-up Archived 2016-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, VeloNews
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Leader Jersey". USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Jerseys". USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved August 19, 2013.

External links

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