page_title: Tony Martin (cyclist)
section_title: 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Tony Martin (cyclist) / Career / Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (2012–16) / 2015
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Reportage réalisé le mardi 7 juillet à l'occasion de l'arrivée de la quatrième étape du Tour de France 2015 à Cambrai, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Nederlands: Aankomst, dinsdag 7 juli 2015, vierde etappe, Ronde van Frankrijk 2015, Cambrai, Noorderdepartement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Frankrijk.
context_page_description: Tony Hans-Joachim Martin is a German professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jumbo–Visma. Martin is known as a time trial specialist, and is a four-time world champion in the discipline, having won the title in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016. He also won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing runner-up to Bradley Wiggins in the event.
  Martin has also been a part of three world championship-winning team time trial squads with Omega Pharma–Quick-Step/Etixx–Quick-Step, in 2012, 2013 and 2016. Martin has also won seven Grand Tour stages, including five individual time trial stages – three at the Tour de France in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and two at the Vuelta a España in 2011 and in 2014. He has also won several stage races, including the Eneco Tour, Paris–Nice and the first two editions of the Tour of Beijing in 2011 and 2012.
context_section_description: Martin had his first victory of the season on the individual time trial of the Volta ao Algarve. The second one came in May, at the Tour de Romandie, where he bettered Simon Špilak by eleven seconds in the rainy streets of Lausanne. At the end of June, he defended his German National Time Trial Championships title successfully.
  At the Tour de France, Martin finished second behind Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing Team) in the opening time trial in Utrecht. Martin looked set to take the yellow jersey on Stage 2 when Dennis was dropped when the peloton split in cross winds, but Fabian Cancellara outsprinted Martin's teammate Mark Cavendish to take third on the stage, and jump ahead of Martin into first place due to time bonuses. On Stage 3, Cancellara was involved in a large accident and lost time, but Martin again missed out on taking the yellow jersey, as Chris Froome (Team Sky) came home second at the finish on the Mur de Huy, and took the lead by one second over Martin due to the time bonus. On 7 July, Martin won Stage 4 after a short escape 3 km (1.9 mi) before the finish, taking the yellow jersey for the first time in his career. He was riding on a bike borrowed from teammate Matteo Trentin, having had mechanical problems earlier in the race, which featured 13 km (8.1 mi) of cobbles. On Stage 6, Martin crashed in the final kilometre on an uphill section while he was still in yellow and had to abandon the Tour because of a broken collarbone.
  One month later, Martin returned to racing; although he fell short in the individual time trial in stage 4, he gained time over his main competitors and eventually won the overall of the Tour du Poitou-Charentes, his first stage race win of the season. However he missed out on a World Championship gold for the second year running; Etixx–Quick-Step finished second in the team time trial, 11 seconds behind the BMC Racing Team, and he struggled to seventh place in the individual event – his worst performance in the event since 2008, when he also finished seventh.
caption: Martin was awarded the leader's yellow jersey after stage four of the 2015 Tour de France.
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