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2015 Tour de Hongrie

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Dates
  
4 – 9 August

Distance
  
700.2 km (435.1 mi)

Winner
  
Tom Thill (LUX)

Stages
  
5 + Prologue

Winning time
  
15hr 31' 02"

Second
  
Andi Bajc (SLO)

The 2015 Tour de Hongrie was a six-day cycling stage race that took place in Hungary in August 2015. The race is the 36th edition of the Tour de Hongrie. It was rated as a 2.2 event as part of the 2015 UCI Europe Tour. The race included five stages+Prologue, starting in Szombathely on 4 August and returning there for the finish on 9 August in Budapest.

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Participating teams

16 teams were invited to the 2015 Tour de Hongrie: and 6 UCI Continental, 4 Regional, 1 national (Serbia) and 5 Hungarian teams.

Riders of 21 different nationalities participated, the largest numbers being from Hungary (32), Izrael, the Netherlands Norway, Serbia and Slovakia (6), Czech Republic and Germany (5), Spain (3), France, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Ukraine and United States (2), with Belgium, Colombia, Guatemala, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and New Zealand all having 1.

The teams entering the race were:

Prologue

4 August 2015 — Szombathely, 1.2 km (0.7 mi), individual time trial (ITT)

Stage 1

5 August 2015 — Szombathely to Keszthely, 112 km (69.6 mi)

Stage 2

6 August 2015 — Balatonföldvár to Kecskemét, 200 km (124.3 mi)

Stage 3

7 August 2015 — Abony to Karcag, 136 km (84.5 mi)

Stage 4

8 August 2015 — Karcag to Kékestető, 146 km (90.7 mi)

Stage 5

9 August 2015 — Gyöngyös to Budapest (Buda Castle), 105 km (65.2 mi)

References

2015 Tour de Hongrie Wikipedia