2015 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2015 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling race that took place principally in Spain between 22 August and 13 September 2015; two stages also took place partly or wholly in Andorra. The first ten stages took the race from Spain's southern Mediterranean coast to Castellón de la Plana on the eastern coast.
The MTN–Qhubeka team, who were first to start the stage, riding across one of the controversial sandy sections
Esteban Chaves (Orica–GreenEDGE), wearing the red jersey of the leader of the general classification
Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) was disqualified from the race after holding onto a team car (photographed during the 2015 Tour de France).
Peter Sagan (Tinkoff–Saxo) won his first Grand Tour victory in over two years (photograph from the 2015 Scheldeprijs).
The 2015 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling race. The race was the 70th edition of the Vuelta a España and took place principally in Spain, although two stages took place partly or wholly in Andorra, and was the 22nd race in the 2015 UCI World Tour. The 3,358.1-kilometre (2,086.6 mi) race included 21 stages, beginning in Marbella on 22 August 2015 and finishing in Madrid on 13 September. It was won by Fabio Aru, with Joaquim Rodríguez second and Rafał Majka (Tinkoff–Saxo) third.
Stage 11, a very difficult mountain stage, took place in Andorra and finished in the mountains around Encamp.
The flat individual time trial on Stage 17 finished next to Burgos Cathedral.
Tom Dumoulin (Team Giant–Alpecin) held the leader's red jersey after stages 5, 9, 10, 17, 18 and 19 (photographed at the 2015 Tour de France).
Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha) took the lead at the end of Stage 16 after taking time throughout the second week (photographed at the 2015 Liège–Bastogne–Liège).
