Miguel Angel Lopez (Team Astana) rides to stage 15 victory atop Sierra Nevada, Espana.

Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) wins monstrous stage 15 atop Sierra Nevada, Alto Hoya de la Mora Vuelta a Espana.

 Chris Froome (Team Sky) finish safely from stage 15 and takes white jersey, Green jersey and retains overrall race leaders red jersey. Tomorrow's is rest day.

  Stage 15 was short but most definitely not sweet, with many metres of climbing and a fearsome mountaintop finish. In addition, the temperatures were high enough that the time limit for finishing was extended.

 Top Ten General classification stage 15

 1, Christopher Froome (Great Britain) Team Sky 62:06:25,
2, Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:01,
3, Ilnur Zakarin (Russia) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:08,
4, Wilco Kelderman (Netherland) Team Sunweb 0:02:11,
5, Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Colombia) Orica-Scott 0:02:39,
 6, Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:02:51,
7, Fabio Aru (Italy) Astana Pro Team 0:03:24,
 8, Michael Woods (Cannada) Cannondale-Drapac 0:03:26,
9, Alberto Contador Velasco (Spain) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:59, 10, Wout Poels (Netherland) Team Sky 0:05:22