page_title: 2015 Tour de Yorkshire
section_title: Stage 2
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 Tour de Yorkshire / Stages / Stage 2
caption_attribution_description: English: Riders on the penultimate lap of Stage 2 of the 2015 Tour de Yorkshire passing the junction of Bishopthorpe Road and Scarcroft Road, York.
context_page_description: The 2015 Tour de Yorkshire was a cycling stage race that took place in Yorkshire in May 2015. It was the first edition of the Tour de Yorkshire and was organised by Welcome to Yorkshire and the Amaury Sport Organisation, who also organised the Yorkshire stages of the 2014 Tour de France. The race started in Bridlington on 1 May and ended in Leeds on 3 May. It included three stages and was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2015 UCI Europe Tour.
  The first stage of the race was won by Lars Petter Nordhaug in a sprint from a small group. He kept his lead through the second stage, which ended in a bunch sprint, and was able to extend it slightly in the third and final stage of the race. He won the general classification in the race by eleven seconds. Samuel Sánchez was second and Thomas Voeckler was third. Nordhaug also won the points classification and Team Sky won the teams classification. The mountains classification was won by Nicolas Edet
context_section_description: 2 May — Selby to York, 174 km (108 mi)
  The second stage of the race, which was much flatter than the first and third stages, began in Selby, North Yorkshire. The stage began with an 8.2-kilometre (5.1 mi) neutralised section, which included a loop around the town centre; the racing started as the riders headed east for 25 kilometres (16 mi) towards Market Weighton. Here they turned south and climbed the first of the day's two categorised climbs; this was the  Côte de North Newbald (1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) at 5.3%). The route again turned east and the riders reached Beverley after 45 kilometres (28 mi). From here the route turned north and entered the Yorkshire Wolds; there was an intermediate sprint as the route passed through Wetwang. Immediately after the intermediate sprint came the second climb of the day, the Côte de Fimber (1.1 kilometres (0.68 mi) at 6.2%). At the summit of the climb, there were 78.5 kilometres (48.8 mi) to the finish line. The riders continued north as far as Malton, then turned south-west towards York. The race concluded in York with a 20.5-kilometre (12.7 mi) finishing circuit. The riders entered the circuit with 52.5 kilometres (32.6 mi) to the end of the stage and rode the 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi) to the finishing line, where the second intermediate sprint of the day took place. They then rode two complete laps of the circuit; the race finished with the third crossing of the finish line, after 174 kilometres (108 mi).
  An early breakaway of 18 riders formed. This included Philip Deignan (Team Sky), who had been in the winning break in the first stage and was 10 seconds off the race lead. The other teams in the peloton were not willing to let a breakaway that included Deignan go; eventually he and nine others dropped back to the main peloton. Eight riders were therefore left in the lead group: Andy Tennant (WIGGINS), Bert De Backer (Team Giant–Alpecin), Stijn Steels (Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise), Giovanni Bernaudeau (Team Europcar), Matt Brammeier (MTN–Qhubeka), Nicolas Edet (Cofidis), Ivar Slik (Team Roompot) and Mark McNally (Madison Genesis). McNally won both categorised climbs. The break's lead was nearly seven minutes with 78.5 kilometres (48.8 mi) remaining; Sky and IAM Cycling began chasing hard and reduced the gap sharply; the breakaway had less than two minutes' lead as they entered the laps around York.
  The breakaway split up; McNally and De Backer remained alone in the lead with 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) left. McNally was voted as the day's most combative rider through a Twitter vote, but he was unable to stay with De Backer in the final 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi). De Backer continued alone; he was briefly joined by Loic Chetout (Cofidis) but the pair were unable to stay away from the chasing pack. As they were caught, with 700 metres (2,300 ft) remaining, Greg Van Avermaet attacked. Although he appeared to have a lead large enough to secure the stage victory, he ran out of energy shortly before the line and was caught by the sprinters. The first of these was Moreno Hofland (LottoNL–Jumbo), who won his team's first victory of the year, with Matteo Pelucchi (IAM Cycling second and Ramon Sinkeldam (Team Giant–Alpecin) third.
  Because of a split in the peloton, Voeckler and Rossetto both lost six seconds. Samuel Sánchez therefore moved up into second place overall, while Nordhaug's lead increased to ten seconds.
caption: The Tour de Yorkshire in York
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