2015 Tour de France
Rank Prev Name Team Points
1 1 Alejandro Valverde ( ESP ) Movistar Team 482
2 16 Chris Froome ( GBR ) Team Sky 422
3 2 Alberto Contador ( ESP ) Tinkoff-Saxo 407
4 15 Nairo Quintana ( COL ) Movistar Team 365
5 3 Richie Porte ( AUS ) Team Sky 314
6 7 Joaquim Rodríguez ( ESP ) Team Katusha 292
7 6 Geraint Thomas ( GBR ) Team Sky 283
8 4 Rui Costa ( POR ) Lampre-Merida 275
9 5 Simon Špilak ( SLO ) Team Katusha 269
10 9 John Degenkolb ( GER ) Team Giant-Alpecin 265
UCI World Tour rankings
Riders from the WorldTeams competing individually , as well as for their teams and nations , for points that contributed towards the World Tour rankings . [ 104 ] Points were awarded to the top twenty finishers in the general classification and to the top five finishers in each stage . [ 105 ] The 238 points accrued by Chris Froome moved him up to second in the individual ranking , behind Alejandro Valverde . Despite Movistar Team 's strong showing , Team Sky took over the lead of the team ranking due to Froome 's points . With three riders in the top ten , Spain remained the leaders of the nation ranking . [ 106 ]
The 2015 Tour de France was the 102nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,360.3 km (2,088 mi)-long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 4 July in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and concluding on 26 July with the Champs-Élysées stage in Paris. A total of 198 riders from 22 teams entered the race. The overall general classification was won by Chris Froome of Team Sky, with the second and third places taken by Movistar Team riders Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde, respectively. BMC Racing Team's Rohan Dennis won the first stage to take the general classification leader's yellow jersey. Trek Factory Racing rider Fabian Cancellara claimed it on the second, only to lose it after crashing out on the following stage. This put Froome in the lead, after the Tour's first uphill finish. He lost the position to Etixx-Quick-Step's Tony Martin at the end of the fourth stage, but Martin's withdrawal from the race after a crash at the end of the sixth stage put Froome back into the lead. He extended this lead during the stages in the Pyrenees and defended it successfully against attacks from Quintana during the final stages that took place in the Alps. Froome became the first British rider to win the Tour twice, after his 2013 victory. Peter Sagan of Tinkoff-Saxo won the points classification. Froome also won the mountains classification.