2015 Sibiu Cycling Tour

The 2015 Sibiu Cycling Tour took place between 1 July and 5 July 2015. For the first time it was raced over 5 days, and moved forward in the calendar by nearly three weeks. The race was won by Mauro Finetto (Southeast Pro Cycling) who won the mountain stage to Păltiniș and was able to retain his jersey through to the end of the race.

2015 Sibiu Cycling Tour

2015 UCI Europe Tour
Race details
Dates	1–5 July
Stages	5
Distance	683.6 km (424.8 mi)
Winning time	17h 14' 38"
Results
Winner  Mauro Finetto (ITA) (Southeast Pro Cycling)   Second  Davide Rebellin (ITA) (CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice)   Third  Serghei Țvetcov (ROM) (Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec) Points  Mauro Finetto (ITA) (Southeast Pro Cycling) Mountains  Mauro Finetto (ITA) (Southeast Pro Cycling) Youth  Giovanni Carboni (ITA) (Unieuro–Wilier) Sprints  Robert Kessler (GER) (LKT Team Brandenburg)   Team Southeast Pro Cycling
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Teams

It was expected that the teams of all the jersey winners and stage winners from 2014, Adria Mobil, CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice, Verandas Willems and Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team, would compete again in 2015. Adria Mobil later withdrew to be replaced by Southeast Pro Cycling taking the number of pro-continental teams in the race to four.^[1][2]

UCI Professional Continental teams

• CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice
• Southeast Pro Cycling
• Nippo–Vini Fantini
• Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec

UCI Continental teams

• Itera–Katusha
• Bike Aid
• Team Stuttgart
• LKT Team Brandenburg
• Unieuro–Wilier
• Differdange–Losch
• Tuşnad Cycling Team
• Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
• Kemo–Dukla Trenčín
• D'Amico–Bottecchia
• Team Ringeriks–Kraft
• GM Cycling Team

National team

• Romania

Route

Stage information and winners

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
P	1 July	Sibiu to Sibiu[3]	2.3 km (1 mi)		Individual time trial	Rafael Andriato (BRA)[4]
1	2 July	Sibiu to Mediaș to Sibiu[5]	224.2 km (139 mi)		Intermediate stage	Oscar Gatto (ITA)[6]
2	3 July	Sibiu to Sebeș to Păltiniș[7]	151.1 km (94 mi)		Mountain stage	Mauro Finetto (ITA)[8]
3	4 July	Sibiu to Bâlea Lake[9]	161.9 km (101 mi)		Mountain stage	Alessio Taliani (ITA)[10]
4	5 July	Sibiu to Poplaca to Slimnic to Sibiu[11]	144.1 km (90 mi)		Flat stage	Oscar Gatto (ITA)[12]

Stages

Prologue

1 July 2015 — Sibiu to Sibiu, 2.3 km (1.4 mi), individual time trial (ITT)^[13]

Prologue result and general classification after Prologue^[14]

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1	Rafael Andriato (BRA)	Southeast Pro Cycling	3' 21"
2	Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROU)	Nippo–Vini Fantini	+ 1"
3	Maroš Kováč (SVK)	Kemo–Dukla Trenčín	+ 1"
4	Patrik Tybor (SVK)	Kemo–Dukla Trenčín	+ 3"
5	Mauro Finetto (ITA)	Southeast Pro Cycling	+ 3"
6	Dion Beukeboom (NED)	Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team	+ 4"
7	Adrian Kurek (POL)	CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice	+ 4"
8	Iuri Filosi (ITA)	Southeast Pro Cycling	+ 5"
9	Davide Plebani (ITA)	Unieuro–Wilier	+ 5"
10	Andrei Nechita (ROU)	Tuşnad Cycling Team	+ 6"

Stage 1

2 July 2015 — Sibiu to Sibiu, 224.2 km (139.3 mi)

Stage 1 result[15] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Oscar Gatto (ITA) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec 5h 28' 23" 2  Filippo Fortin (ITA) GM Cycling Team + 0" 3  Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROU) Nippo–Vini Fantini + 0" 4  Simone Ponzi (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 0" 5  Christian Delle Stelle (ITA) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 0" 6  Rafael Andriato (BRA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 0" 7  Julian Schulze (GER) Team Stuttgart + 0" 8  Antonino Parrinello (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 0" 9  Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 0" 10  Maroš Kováč (SVK) Kemo–Dukla Trenčín + 0"

General classification after stage 1[16] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROU) Nippo–Vini Fantini 5h 31' 41" 2  Rafael Andriato (BRA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 3" 3  Maroš Kováč (SVK) Kemo–Dukla Trenčín + 4" 4  Patrik Tybor (SVK) Kemo–Dukla Trenčín + 6" 5  Mauro Finetto (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 6" 6  Giacomo Berlato (ITA) Nippo–Vini Fantini + 10" 7  Elia Favilli (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 10" 8  Filippo Fortin (ITA) GM Cycling Team + 10" 9  Simone Ponzi (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 11" 10  Janis Dakteris (LAT) Differdange–Losch + 12"

Stage 2

3 July 2015 — Sibiu to Păltiniș, 151.1 km (93.9 mi)

Stage 2 result[17] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Mauro Finetto (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling 3h 55' 58" 2  Simone Ponzi (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 0" 3  Davide Rebellin (ITA) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 0" 4  Antonino Parrinello (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 0" 5  Serghei Țvetcov (ROU) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec + 0" 6  Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 0" 7  Paolo Ciavatta (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 0" 8  Patrik Tybor (SVK) Kemo–Dukla Trenčín + 4" 9  Alessandro Bisolti (ITA) Nippo–Vini Fantini + 8" 10  Sergey Pomoshnikov (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 9"

General classification after stage 2[18] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Mauro Finetto (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling 9h 27' 35" 2  Simone Ponzi (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 9" 3  Davide Rebellin (ITA) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 12" 4  Patrik Tybor (SVK) Kemo–Dukla Trenčín + 14" 5  Paolo Ciavatta (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 17" 6  Serghei Țvetcov (ROU) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec + 23" 7  Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 27" 8  Antonino Parrinello (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 32" 9  Alessio Taliani (ITA) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec + 33" 10  Alessandro Bisolti (ITA) Nippo–Vini Fantini + 36"

Stage 3

4 July 2015 — Sibiu to Bâlea Lake, 161.9 km (100.6 mi)

Stage 3 result[19] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Alessio Taliani (ITA) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec 4h 29' 58" 2  Antonino Parrinello (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 4" 3  Serghei Țvetcov (ROU) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec + 4" 4  Davide Rebellin (ITA) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 4" 5  Mauro Finetto (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 4" 6  Nikolay Mihaylov (BUL) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 30" 7  Sergey Pomoshnikov (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 30" 8  Paolo Ciavatta (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 50" 9  Antonio Nibali (ITA) Nippo–Vini Fantini + 1' 04" 10  Samuele Conti (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 1' 07"

General classification after stage 3[20] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Mauro Finetto (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling 13h 57' 37" 2  Davide Rebellin (ITA) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 12" 3  Serghei Țvetcov (ROU) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec + 19" 4  Alessio Taliani (ITA) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec + 19" 5  Antonino Parrinello (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 26" 6  Paolo Ciavatta (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 1' 03" 7  Sergey Pomoshnikov (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 1' 07" 8  Nikolay Mihaylov (BUL) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 1' 15" 9  Samuele Conti (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 1' 54" 10  Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 2' 13"

Stage 4

5 July 2015 — Sibiu to Sibiu, 144.1 km (89.5 mi)

Stage 4 result[21] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Oscar Gatto (ITA) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec 3h 16' 59" 2  Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROU) Nippo–Vini Fantini + 0" 3  Christian Delle Stelle (ITA) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 2" 4  Filippo Fortin (ITA) GM Cycling Team + 2" 5  Simone Ponzi (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 2" 6  Fabio Chinello (ITA) Unieuro–Wilier + 2" 7  Pierpaolo De Negri (ITA) Nippo–Vini Fantini + 2" 8  Mauro Finetto (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 2" 9  Rino Gasparrini (ITA) Unieuro–Wilier + 2" 10  Maroš Kováč (SVK) Kemo–Dukla Trenčín + 2"

Final general classification[22] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Mauro Finetto (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling 17h 14' 38" 2  Davide Rebellin (ITA) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 12" 3  Serghei Țvetcov (ROU) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec + 19" 4  Antonino Parrinello (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 26" 5  Alessio Taliani (ITA) Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec + 33" 6  Paolo Ciavatta (ITA) D'Amico–Bottecchia + 1' 09" 7  Nikolay Mihaylov (BUL) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice + 1' 21" 8  Sergey Pomoshnikov (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 1' 23" 9  Samuele Conti (ITA) Southeast Pro Cycling + 2' 03" 10  Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) Itera–Katusha + 2' 19"