page_title: 2015 Tour de Suisse
section_title: Stage 2
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 Tour de Suisse / Stages / Stage 2
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context_page_description: The 2015 Tour de Suisse was the 79th edition of the Tour de Suisse stage race. It took place from 13 to 21 June and was the seventeenth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour. It started in Risch-Rotkreuz and finished in Bern. The race was composed of nine stages including two time trials, a short one on the first day and a long one on the last day. The event covered 1,258 km and visited Liechtenstein and Austria on its fifth stage. There was only one mountaintop finish, on the aforementioned stage five.
  The winner of the general classification was Slovenian Simon Špilak of Team Katusha, who won the race by a margin of only five seconds from Great Britain's Geraint Thomas. The ultimate selection was made on the last day's individual time trial. Tom Dumoulin of the Team Giant–Alpecin squad rounded up the podium. The latter won the two individual time trials, on the first and last stage.
  The mountains classification was awarded to Austria's Stefan Denifl, who featured in many breakaways to amass his points. The sprints classification was won by Slovakian Peter Sagan who also was the victor of two stages.
context_section_description: 14 June 2015 — Risch-Rotkreuz to Risch-Rotkreuz 161.1 km (100.1 mi)
  The stage started right away with a Category 2 climb named Dorfstrasse which was 5.4 km (3.4 mi) long. The riders then rode a loop to tackle the latter climb once more about midway through the stage. Afterward another loop around Risch-Rotkreuz was effectuated to reach a Category 1 affair named Michaelskreuz, 4 km (2.5 mi) long. The course came back down and effectuated another circuit to tackle the climb a second and last time. This last King of the Mountains (KOM) checkpoint was situated at 12 km (7.5 mi) from the finish. The riders negotiated the descent and ended up once again in Risch-Rotkreuz for the finale.
  After 38 km (23.6 mi) of racing, Luka Pibernik (Lampre-Merida), Cameron Meyer (Orica-GreenEDGE), Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto–Soudal) and Valerio Agnoli of Astana had an advantage of 1' 08" over chasers Ben King (Cannondale–Garmin) and Simone Antonini of Pro Continental team Wanty–Groupe Gobert. They also enjoyed a lead of 2' 55" on the peloton. The two chasers soon fell back into the main field. The maximum gap the peloton allowed the escapees to have was 3' 20". As the main group attacked the climb of Michaelskreuz for the first time, Arnaud Demare (FDJ) crashed because of the fight for position.
  With 16 km (9.9 mi) to go, the riders attacked the climb of Michaelskreuz for the second and last time and caught the remnants of the breakaway on the way up. Astana's Jakob Fuglsang accelerated close to the summit, with only Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) and Simon Špilak (Team Katusha) initially able to follow, while Michał Kwiatkowski (Etixx-Quick Step) lost contact. Geraint Thomas then attacked on the descent and was followed by Fuglsang and Špilak (Team Katusha). Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) chased them as he wanted to protect his leader's jersey. A small group of nine riders formed on the descent.
  Close to the final kilometer, Kristijan Đurasek of Lampre–Merida placed an acceleration and continued to a solo victory on the flat run-in. The group came in four seconds in arrears, with Daniel Moreno (Team Katusha) winning the sprint for second place before Arredondo. Overall contenders Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) and Simon Špilak were also part of that clique, coming in fourth and sixth respectively. Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) won the sprint of the following group, coming in tenth at fourteen seconds. Dumoulin kept his leader's jersey. Pibernik amassed enough mountain points (18) to earn the mountains classification jersey.
caption: The race leaders pass beneath the one kilometer to go archway (flamme rouge).
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