Stage 15

The road

At the start

Into the Alps, 2:28 in hand

The long time trial did in an afternoon what two weeks of racing could not: Alberto Contador has the maglia rosa back and 2:28 on Fabio Aru, with Andrey Amador third and Richie Porte four minutes further adrift after a day he could not explain. Today is the first Alpine stage — the Passo Daone, eight kilometres at over nine per cent, a narrow descent the rain is forecast to ruin, then Madonna di Campiglio.

How it was won

1. 1104 km to go

   Forty-eight kilometres an hour, and then a break

   The peloton comes out of Marostica at nearly 48kph and nothing sticks until halfway up La Fricca, where Visconti splits a ten-man move apart and goes over the top with Zakarin and Intxausti.

2. 251 km to go

   Porte's week gets worse

   On the tougher second climb Richie Porte is dropped, and Rigoberto Urán goes with him. Two of the three men expected to challenge Contador are out of the picture on a Sunday in May.

3. 316 km to go

   Two more seconds at Pinzolo

   Contador has no teammates left after Kreuziger was caught out on the descent, so he does it himself — a surprise sprint for second at the last intermediate sprint and two bonus seconds. Kangert reacts too late.

4. 41 km to go

   Trofimov's kilometre

   With a kilometre left Yuri Trofimov goes, banking on Aru and Contador watching only each other. For 500 metres it looks like working.

5. 5At the line

   Landa takes it at 450 metres

   Mikel Landa realises the stage is escaping, jumps, and catches Trofimov with 450 metres left. Behind, Contador beats Aru for third and the bonus seconds, and stretches his lead to 2:35.

The result