Tour of Switzerland

The Tour of Switzerland (Tour de Suisse) is a cycling race in stages through Switzerland which was first organized in 1933. The competition takes place in the third week of June. Since 2005, the Tour of Switzerland was part of the UCI ProTour. From 2011 on, The Tour is part of the UCI World Tour.

The Tour of Switzerland is considered a major (last) preparation for the Tour de France, and this is partly because of its many climbs. In that context, the Tour faces competition of ​​the Critérium du Dauphiné, another multi-day ProTour Race which takes place a week earlier in June. The Tour of Switzerland lasts a little longer than its French counterpart and is generally considered as tougher.

In recent years it happened that occasionally a stage took place abroad, such as in Austria and Liechtenstein.

The Tour of Switzerland is sometimes called "The fourth Tour", after the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.

List of Honour :
1933 · Max Bulla (AUT)
1934 · Ludwig Geyer (DE)
1935 · Gaspard Rinaldi (FR)
1936 · Henri Garnier (BE)
1937 · Karl Litschi (CH)
1938 · Giovanni Valetti (IT)
1939 · Robert Zimmermann (CH)
1940 · /
1941 · Jozef Wagner (CH)
1942 · Ferdi Kübler (CH)
1943-1945 · /
1946 · Gino Bartali (IT)
1947 · Gino Bartali (IT)
1948 · Ferdi Kübler (CH)
1949 · Gottfried Weilenmann (CH)
1950 · Hugo Koblet (CH)
1951 · Ferdi Kübler (CH)
1952 · Pasquale Fornara (IT)
1953 · Hugo Koblet (CH)
1954 · Pasquale Fornara (IT)
1955 · Hugo Koblet (CH)
1956 · Rolf Graf (CH)
1957 · Pasquale Fornara (IT)
1958 · Pasquale Fornara (IT)
1959 · Hans Junkermann (BRD)
1960 · Alfred Ruegg (CH)
1961 · Attilio Moresi (CH)
1962 · Hans Junkermann (BRD)
1963 · Giuseppe Fezzardi (IT)
1964 · Rolf Maurer (CH)
1965 · Franco Bitossi (IT)
1966 · Ambrosio Portalupi (IT)
1967 · Gianni Motta (IT)
1968 · Louis Pfenninger (CH)
1969 · Vittorio Adorni (IT)
1970 · Roberto Poggiali (IT)
1971 · Georges Pintens (BE)
1972 · Louis Pfenninger (CH)
1973 · José Manuel Fuente (ES)
1974 · Eddy Merckx (BE)
1975 · Roger De Vlaeminck (BE)
1976 · Hennie Kuiper (NL)
1977 · Michel Pollentier (BE)
1978 · Paul Wellens (BE)
1979 · Wilfried Wesemael (BE)
1980 · Mario Beccia (IT)
1981 · Beat Breu (CH)
1982 · Giuseppe Saronni (IT)
1983 · Seán Kelly (IRL)
1984 · Urs Zimmermann (CH)
1985 · Phil Anderson (AUS)
1986 · Andy Hampsten (USA)
1987 · Andy Hampsten (USA)
1988 · Helmut Wechselberger (AUT)
1989 · Beat Breu (CH)
1990 · Seán Kelly (IRL)
1991 · Luc Roosen (BE)
1992 · Giorgio Furlan (IT)
1993 · Marco Saligari (IT)
1994 · Pascal Richard (CH)
1995 · Pavel Tonkov (RUS)
1996 · Peter Luttenberger (AUT)
1997 · Christophe Agnolutto (FR)
1998 · Stefano Garzelli (IT)
1999 · Francesco Casagrande (IT)
2000 · Oscar Camenzind (CH)
2001 · Lance Armstrong (USA)
2002 · Alex Zülle (CH)
2003 · Aleksandr Vinokoerov (KAZ)
2004 · Jan Ullrich (DE)
2005 · Aitor González (ES)
2006 · Koldo Gil (ES)
2007 · Vladimir Karpets (RUS)
2008 · Roman Kreuziger (CZ)
2009 · Fabian Cancellara (CH)
2010 · Fränk Schleck (LUX)
2011 · Levi Leipheimer (USA)
2012 · Rui Costa (POR)
2013 · Rui Costa (POR)
2014 · Rui Costa (POR)