The 2015 Tour de Taiwan was the thirteenth edition of the

Tour de Taiwan The Tour de Taiwan is an annual professional road bicycle racing race stage, stage race held in Taiwan since 1978, and has been part of the UCI Asia Tour since 2005. It was classed a 2.1 category race for the first time in 2012. History The Tour ...

cycling stage race. It started on 22 March and ended on 26 March, consisting of five stages and was rated as a

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event on the

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. The 2014 champion was

Rémy Di Gregorio Rémy Di Gregorio (born 31 July 1985) is a French road bicycle racer, who is currently suspended from the sport following a positive in-competition doping test for darbepoetin alfa, a re-engineered form of erythropoietin (EPO). He has previousl ...

(), but his team was not selected to take part in the 2015 edition. The race was won by

Samad Pourseyedi Mirsamad Pourseyedi Golakhour (; born 15 October 1985) is an Iranian cyclist who currently rides for UCI Continental team . He was suspended from May 2011 to June 2013 because of testing positive to the use of erythropoietin (EPO). Doping ban He ...

(). He finished third on the first hill-top finish on stage 2, then took a solo victory on stage 4. He defended his lead to the end of the race. The final podium was made up entirely of Iranian riders: two riders came second and third,

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and

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. Pourseyedi also won the mountains and Asian rider classifications, while were the best team. The points competition was won by

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(), who won one stage, was in the top ten in four stages and was fourth overall in the race. Two stages were won by

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() and one by

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().

Teams

Stages

Stage 1

; 22 March 2015 –

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to Taipei,

Stage 2

; 23 March 2015 –

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to Taoyuan County,

Stage 3

; 24 March 2015 –

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to Changhua County,

Stage 4

; 25 March 2015 –

Sun Moon Lake Sun Moon Lake ( zh, t=, p=Rìyuè tán, poj= ; Thao language, Thao: ''Zintun'') is a lake in Yuchi, Nantou, Yuchi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan. It is the largest body of water in Taiwan. The area around the lake is home to the Thao people, o ...

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Stage 5

; 26 March 2015 – Jianshanpi Jiangnan Resort to

Dapeng Bay Dapeng Bay or Dapeng Wan, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is a lagoon in Donggang Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. It is the largest lagoon on the southwest coastline of Taiwan Island. Scenic Area The Dapeng Bay Nation ...

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.tourdetaiwan.org.tw/ Tour de Taiwan