Tour de Suisse

Tour de Suisse
Date	June
Region	Switzerland
English	Tour of Switzerland
Local names	Tour de Suisse
Nickname
Discipline	Road race
Competition	UCI ProTour
Type	Stage race
Organiser
Director	Christian Pirzer
First	1933
Number	72 (as of 2008)
Last
First winner	Max Bulla
Most wins	Pasquale Fornara (4 wins)
Most recent	Roman Kreuziger

The Tour de Suisse (English: Tour of Switzerland) is a UCI ProTour stage race held annually in June. The race debuted in 1933 and has evolved in timing, duration and sponsorship. With the Dauphiné Libéré, it is a proving ground for the Tour de France. Like the Tour de France and the Dauphiné Libéré, the Tour de Suisse offers mountain climbs and at least one individual time trial, stages that often determine the winner of the Tour de France. Several recent winners of the Tour de France have also won the Tour de Suisse, including Eddy Merckx, Lance Armstrong and Jan Ullrich. In 2005 the organizers moved the race to earlier in June.

Past winners

Rider Team 1933 Template:Country data AUT Max Bulla 1934 Template:Country data GER Ludwig Geyer 1935 Template:Country data FRA Gaspard Rinaldi 1936 Template:Country data FRA Henri Garnier 1937 Template:Country data SUI Karl Litschi 1938 Template:Country data ITA Giovanni Valetti 1939 Template:Country data SUI Robert Zimmermann 1940 No race 1941 Template:Country data SUI Josef Wagner 1942 Template:Country data SUI Ferdi Kübler 1943 No race 1944 No race 1945 No race 1946 Template:Country data ITA Gino Bartali 1947 Template:Country data ITA Gino Bartali 1948 Template:Country data SUI Ferdi Kübler 1949 Template:Country data SUI Gottfried Weilenmann 1950 Template:Country data SUI Hugo Koblet 1951 Template:Country data SUI Ferdi Kübler 1952 Template:Country data ITA Pasquale Fornara 1953 Template:Country data SUI Hugo Koblet 1954 Template:Country data ITA Pasquale Fornara 1955 Template:Country data SUI Hugo Koblet 1956 Template:Country data SUI Rolf Graf 1957 Template:Country data ITA Pasquale Fornara 1958 Template:Country data ITA Pasquale Fornara 1959 Template:Country data GER Hans Junkermann 1960 Template:Country data SUI Alfred Ruegg 1961 Template:Country data SUI Attilio Moresi 1962 Template:Country data GER Hans Junkermann 1963 Template:Country data ITA Giuseppe Fezzardi 1964 Template:Country data SUI Rolf Maurer 1965 Template:Country data ITA Franco Botossi 1966 Template:Country data ITA Ambrogio Portalupi 1967 Template:Country data ITA Gianni Motta 1968 Template:Country data SUI Louis Pfenninger 1969 Template:Country data ITA Vittorio Adorni 1970 Template:Country data ITA Roberto Poggiali

Rider Team 1971 Template:Country data BEL Georges Pintens 1972 Template:Country data SUI Louis Pfenninger 1973 Template:Country data ESP José-Manuel Fuente 1974 Template:Country data BEL Eddy Merckx Template:Country data ITA Molteni 1975 Template:Country data BEL Roger De Vlaeminck Template:Country data ITA Perfetti Van Melle 1976 Template:Country data NED Hennie Kuiper Template:Country data NED TI-Raleigh 1977 Template:Country data BEL Michel Pollentier Template:Country data BEL Flandria-Velda 1978 Template:Country data BEL Paul Wellens 1979 Template:Country data BEL Wilfried Wesemael 1980 Template:Country data ITA Mario Beccia 1981 Template:Country data SUI Beat Breu 1982 Template:Country data ITA Giuseppe Saronni Template:Country data ITA Del Tongo 1983 Template:Country data IRL Seán Kelly Template:Country data FRA Sem-France Lore 1984 Template:Country data SUI Urs Zimmermann 1985 Template:Country data AUS Phil Anderson Panasonic 1986 Template:Country data USA Andy Hampsten Template:Country data FRA La Vie Claire 1987 Template:Country data USA Andy Hampsten Template:Country data USA 7 Eleven Progetto Sunrise 1988 Template:Country data AUT Helmut Wechselberger 1989 Template:Country data SUI Beat Breu 1990 Template:Country data IRL Seán Kelly Template:Country data NED PDM-Concorde 1991 Template:Country data BEL Luc Roosen 1992 Template:Country data ITA Giorgio Furlan 1993 Template:Country data ITA Marco Saligari 1994 Template:Country data SUI Pascal Richard 1995 Template:Country data RUS Pavel Tonkov 1996 Template:Country data AUT Peter Luttenberger Template:Country data ITA Carrera Jeans 1997 Template:Country data FRA Christophe Agnolutto Template:Country data FRA Casino 1998 Template:Country data ITA Stefano Garzelli Template:Country data ITA Mercatone Uno 1999 Template:Country data ITA Francesco Casagrande Template:Country data ITA Vini Caldirola 2000 Template:Country data SUI Oscar Camenzind Template:Country data ITA Lampre-Daikin 2001 Template:Country data USA Lance Armstrong Template:Country data USA U.S. Postal 2002 Template:Country data SUI Alex Zülle Template:Country data GER Team Coast 2003 Template:Country data KAZ Alexandre Vinokourov Template:Country data GER Team Telekom 2004 Template:Country data GER Jan Ullrich Template:Country data GER T-Mobile Team 2005 Template:Country data ESP Aitor González Template:Country data ESP Euskaltel-Euskadi 2006 Template:Country data GER Jan Ullrich Template:Country data GER T-Mobile Team 2007 Template:Country data RUS Vladimir Karpets Template:Country data ESP Caisse d'Epargne 2008 Template:Country data CZE Roman Kreuziger Template:Country data ITA Liquigas

External links

• Official Tour de Suisse site (in French and German)
• Complete Tour de Suisse results (in French)
• Flickr Group with photos related to the Tour de Suisse