Tour de Suisse
The Tour de Suisse is the biggest cycling race in Switzerland. It takes place every year in mid-June and is the most important stage race ( 9 stages ) in cycling below the " big three" Tour de France, Giro d' Italia and Vuelta a España. The tour was one of the newly introduced in 2005 UCI ProTour, a series of the most important bike race of the year. Since 2011, the race is part of the follow-up series UCI World Tour.
It is divided into nine stages, including usually a prologue, several mountain stages and a time trial. The Tour de Suisse is being driven by many drivers in final preparation for the traditional two weeks later onset of the Tour de France. Open to teams of the 1st and 2nd category. The leader of the general classification wears the "Golden Strip ".
History
For the 25th anniversary of the Swiss cycling and Morradfahrer Federation ( SRB), 1908, tried to establish a race of association. After two sweeps, the one-day race over 300 kilometers was reinstated. Another attempt to establish a major cycling race in Switzerland was the voyage Munich - Zurich which was however reinstated because of high costs in 1924. The Tour de France and the Giro d' Italia as a model of the then director of the SRB Xaver Marzohl finally tried to organize a stage race. The first Tour de Suisse finally found 1933 50th anniversary of the SRB instead. Winners of the discharged in five stages itinerary was the Austrian Max Bulla. Since then many famous riders have won the Tour. Behind the four-time overall and thus record winner Pasquale Fornara follow the two Swiss cycling stars of the 1950s, Ferdy Kübler and Hugo Koblet, each with three victories. Gino Bartali, Hennes Jungermann, Beat Breu and Rui Costa were able to tour each win twice.
Today the Tour de Suisse is hosted by the company IMG. Director of the Tour is the former Swiss cyclist Armin Meier.
List of winners
- 2013 Portugal Rui Costa
- 2012 Portugal Rui Costa
- 2011 United States Levi Leipheimer
- Fränk Schleck 2010 Luxembourg
- 2009 Switzerland Fabian Cancellara
- 2008 Czech Roman Kreuziger
- 2007 Russia Vladimir Karpez
- 2006 Germany Jan Ullrich [A 1]
- 2005 Spain Aitor González
- 2004 Germany Jan Ullrich
- 2003 Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan
- 2002 Switzerland Alex Zülle
- 2001 United States Lance Armstrong [A 2]
- 2000 Switzerland Oscar Camenzind
- 1999 Italy Francesco Casagrande
- 1998, the Italian Stefano Garzelli
- 1997 France Christophe Agnolutto
- 1995 Russia Pavel Tonkow
- 1994 Switzerland Pascal Richard
- 1993 Italy Marco Saligari
- 1992 Italy Giorgio Furlan
- 1991 Belgium Luc Roosen
- 1990 Ireland Sean Kelly
- 1989 Switzerland Beat Breu
- 1987 United States Andy Hampsten
Tour de Suisse 2012
Tour de Suisse 2012
Tour de Suisse 2012
Security vehicles of tour
The broom wagon
Literautur
- Peter Schnyder ( eds): Tour de Suisse: 75 years; From 1933 to 2008. AS Verlag, Zurich, 2008. ISBN 978-3-909111-53-4