page_title: 2015 Critérium du Dauphiné
section_title: Stage 5
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 Critérium du Dauphiné / Stages / Stage 5
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Reportage réalisé le lundi 6 juillet à l'occasion du départ de la troisième étape du Tour de France 2015 à Anvers, Belgique. Nederlands: Vertrek, maandag 6 juli 2015, derde etappe, Ronde van Frankrijk 2015, Antwerpen, België.
context_page_description: The 2015 Critérium du Dauphiné was the 67th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné cycling stage race. The eight-stage race in France began in Ugine on 7 June and concluded in Modane Valfréjus on 14 June, and was sixteenth of the twenty-eight races in the 2015 UCI World Tour season. The Dauphiné was viewed as a preview for July's Tour de France and a number of the contenders for the general classification of the Tour participated in the race.
  The first leader of the general classification was Team Sky's Peter Kennaugh, who won the opening stage. He lost the race lead to BMC Racing Team rider Rohan Dennis, whose team won stage three's team time trial. His teammate Tejay van Garderen then took over after the race's first mountain stage, stage five. Vincenzo Nibali of the Astana team took the lead after the stage six, before Van Garderen regained it following stage. Chris Froome, who was second to Van Garderen after the penultimate stage, claimed the race victory with his win on the final stage. Van Garderen finished second overall, ten seconds in arrears, with Lampre–Merida's Rui Costa third, a further one minute and six seconds down.
context_section_description: 11 June 2015 — Digne-les-Bains to Pra-Loup, 161 km (100.0 mi)
  Stage five from Digne-les-Bains to Pra-Loup was the first classified as mountainous and was 161 km (100.0 mi) in length. The first section of the stage was flat, until the passing of the third-category Col des Léques at 40 km (24.9 mi). After a descent and small rise a came another third-category climb, the Col de Toutes Aures. The route then dropped down before a further rising up to the second-category Col de la Colle-Saint-Michel which topped at 96 km (59.7 mi) in. The descent was followed by the first-category Col d'Allos at 139 km (86.4 mi). The resulting descent, which began with 22 km (13.7 mi) to go, was long and technical. The final climb to the finish at Pra-Loup was 6.2 km (3.9 mi)-long and had an average gradient of 6.5%.
  Mountains classification leader Daniel Teklehaimanot was the first to initiate the early seven-rider breakaway; the other riders were Christophe Riblon (AG2R La Mondiale), Tim Wellens, Pieter Serry (Etixx–Quick-Step), Romain Sicard (Team Europcar), Arnaud Courteille, and Albert Timmer (both Team Giant–Alpecin). Courteille claimed the points at the Col des Lèques, with Teklehaimanot second, with the aforementioned first over the Col de Toutes Aures and Col de la Colle-Saint-Michel. Team Sky set a high pace at the head of the peloton throughout the Col d'Allos, leading to a large number of riders being dropped, including the race leader Rohan Dennis. In the breakaway, an attack by Serry dropped Riblon, Teklehaimanot, and Courteille. Before the summit of the climb, with 24 km (14.9 mi) remaining, the break was caught.
  As the race reached the summit, Romain Bardet attacked, and the bottom had gained a twenty-second advantage over the front group of around thirty riders, increasing it to one minute at the foot of the Pra-Loup climb. Sky again controlled the head of the chase, with Vincenzo Nibali, Alejandro Valverde and Wilco Kelderman the notable riders distanced. Chris Froome launched an attack in the final 2 km (1.2 mi), with Tejay van Garderen and Beñat Intxausti following. Van Garderen dropped Intxausti and passed Froome to take second place, thirty-six seconds behind stage winner Bardet. The new leaders in the classifications were Van Garderen in the general, Bardet in the young riders' and Sky in the team standings.
caption: AG2R La Mondiale's Romain Bardet (pictured at the 2015 Tour de France), the winner of the fifth stage
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