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Vuelta a España 2015

Stage 1

One hundredth of a second

  • Saturday 22 August 2015
  • 7.4 km
  • 12 m climbed
  • Won by Peter Velits

The road

7 m0 km7 km12

How it was won

  1. 3 km to go

    LottoNL set the mark

    A scorching Andalusian evening on the Marbella seafront. MTN-Qhubeka open the afternoon, then LottoNL-Jumbo post 8:18 and it stands and stands, until Orica take seven seconds off it.

  2. At the line

    One hundredth of a second

    BMC come home with the bare minimum of five riders and beat Tinkoff-Saxo by a single hundredth. Peter Velits leads them across and takes the first red jersey of the race.

The result

Podium, Stage 1, Vuelta a España 2015
RankRiderTeamTime
1Peter VelitsBMC Racing Team
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