Stage 15

The road

How it was won

1. 1107 km to go

   A 25-man break

   After a busy, fast start a large group of 25 finally clips clear in the Dolomites, Ciccone and Visconti among the aggressors.

2. 265 km to go

   Woods lights the Tre Croci

   EF set up a long-range Michael Woods attack on the Passo Tre Croci, pulling the break's advantage down towards a minute.

3. 329 km to go

   Aru cracks on Sant'Antonio

   Fabio Aru is an early GC casualty, dropping 30km from home on the Passo di Sant'Antonio as the mountains bite.

4. 415 km to go

   Yates attacks the Costalissio

   On the irregular Costalissio, 18km out, Yates accelerates and a kilometre later goes solo, Froome cracking and slipping over a minute behind.

5. 5At the line

   Yates soloes into Sappada

   Yates stretches clear on the final rise for his third stage win in pink — the first man since Simoni in 2003 to do so — as the chase dithers behind.

The result