Bauke Mollema has won his first stage of the Tour de France, with an aggressive ride late taking him to the top of Stage 15. Chris Froome managed to retain his yellow jersey, but the stage was anything but smooth sailing for him.
Tour de France standings 2017: Bauke Mollema takes Stage 15 as Chris Froome suffers puncture
An eventful Stage 15 saw Chris Froome lose nearly a minute due to a tire puncture.
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Mollema attacked near the end of a breakaway in the closing stages of the 189.5-kilometer run from Laissac-Severac L’Eglise to Le Puy-en Velay.
Froome suffered a puncture and needed a wheel change as the peloton neared the Col de Peyra Taillade. He lost about a minute before spending the next eight kilometers or so getting his way back into the main bunch.
Froome retains his yellow jersey with an 18-second lead over Italy’s Fabio Aru. Romain Bardet is in third place a further five seconds back. Uran Rigoberto is the only one close outside of the top three, six seconds behind Romain. The next rider would be Martin Daniel, who is more than a minute back of Froome.
The green jersey is still on the back of Marcel Kittel with 373 points, Warren Barguil retains the polka dot climbing jersey with 116 points, and Simon Yates continues to run away with the white jersey given to the best performing younger rider.
Below are the top 10 placements from Stage 15 and below that is the top 10 for the general classification after the stage.
Top 10 from Stage 15
- Bauke Mollema, Trek-Segafredo - 4h41’47”
- Diego Ulissi, Team Emirates - +00’19”
- Tony Gallopin, Lotto Soudal - +00’19”
- Primoz Roglic, Lotto NL-Jumbo - +00’19”
- Warren Barguil, Team Sunweb - +00’23”
- Nicolas Roche, BMC Racing - +01’00”
- Lilian Calmejane, Direct Energie - +01’04”
- Jan Bakelants, AG2R La Mondiale - +01’04”
- Thibaut Pinot, FDJ - +01’04”
- Serge Pauwels, Dimension Data - +01’04”
General Classification after Stage 15
- Chris Froome, Team Sky - 64h40’21”
- Fabio Aru, Astana - +00’18”
- Romain Bardet, AG2R La Mondiale - +00’23”
- Rigoberto Uran, Cannondale - +00’29”
- Daniel Martin, Quick - Step - +01’12”
- Mikel Landa, Team Sky - +01’17”
- Simon Yates - Orica - Scott - +02’02”
- Louis Meintjes, Team Emirates - +05’09”
- Alberto Contador, Trek - Segafredo - +05’37”
- Damiano Caruso - BMC Racing - +06’05”
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