Tour de Suisse

Infobox Cycling race
name = Tour de Suisse


date = June
region = Switzerland
english = Tour of Switzerland
localnames = Tour de Suisse fr icon
nickname =
discipline = Road race
competition = UCI ProTour
type = Stage race
organiser =
director = Christian Pirzer
first = 1933
number = 72 (as of 2008)
last =
firstwinner = flagicon|AUT Max Bulla
mostwins = flagicon|ITA Pasquale Fornara (4 wins)
mostrecent = flagicon|CZE Roman KreuzigerThe 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] . Several 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

External links

* [http://www.tds.ch Official Tour de Suisse site (in French and German)]
* [http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/etapes/tour_de_suisse.php Complete Tour de Suisse results (in French)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/765760@N20/ Flickr Group with photos related to the Tour de Suisse]