Stage 6 was neutralised in memory of Gino Mäder (Bahrain Victorious), who died on Friday morning following a crash on the descent of the Albulapass in the finale of stage 5(Image credit: Getty)
Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) celebrates at finish line as the stage 5 winner during the 86th Tour de Suisse(Image credit: Getty Images)
2023 Tour de Suisse: Felix Gall wins stage 4(Image credit: Getty)
Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo) secured the stage 3 victory on the summit finish at Villars-sur-Ollon at the Tour de Suisse(Image credit: Getty Images)
Biniam Girmay wins stage 2 at Tour de Suisse(Image credit: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Winner of stage 1, Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ takes the first Yellow leader jersey of Tour de Suisse 2023(Image credit: Getty Images)
Stage 6: Friday's stage for the Tour de Suisse was neutralised in memory of Gino Mäder (Bahrain Victorious), who died on Friday morning following a crash on the descent of the Albulapass in the finale of stage 5. The peloton rode together along the closing 20km of stage 6 into Oberwil-Lieli as a tribute to Mäder.
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Stage 1: Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) won the opening time trial stage of the 2023 Tour de Suisse by a comfortable margin on the 12.7km course. His time was six seconds quicker than pre-race favourites Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), and 10 seconds up on Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). / As it happened
Tour de Suisse History
The 2023 Tour de Suisse returns with an eight-day race, June 11-18, and once again delivers lots of climbing and two time trials. Like its counterpart held in France, Critérium du Dauphiné, the Tour de Suisse is also used by pro teams and riders as a tuneup for the Tour de France.
Team Ineos Grenadiers have won the past three editions of the race. Last year, Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) claimed final victory at the Tour de Suisse after he overhauled leader Sergio Higuita (Bora-Hansgrohe) in the stage 8 time trial, which was won by Remco Evenepoel (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl). Thomas went on to finish third at the Tour de France.
In 2021, Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) took over the race lead following his stage 5 victory.The Ecuadorian then held onto his lead through the final three stages, including a mountainous final stage to Andermatt, to win the overall title. Carapaz finished third that year at the Tour.
Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) won the Tour de Suisse in 2019 and went on to win the Tour de France that year.
The Tour de Suisse, first raced in 1933, did not take place in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Before Bernal, the last Tour winner to ride in Switzerland as preparation for the Tour had been 2010 winner Andy Schleck, with the Critérium du Dauphiné often favoured as it allows for a longer recovery.
Slovakian Peter Sagan has the most stage wins, with 17, but never took the overall title. Three riders are tied with 11 stage wins, and they all came away with overall victories - the 2009 overall winner Fabian Cancellara, three-time winner Hugo Koblet (1950, 1953, 1955) and three-time champion Ferdinand Kübler (1942, 1948, 1951). Italian Pasquale Fornara is the leader in both number of overall victories, four times in the 1950s, and has spent the most days in the leader’s jersey, 17.
For the 86th edition, all the 18 teams on the UCI WorldTour will compete in the men’s Tour de Suisse. They will be joined by five ambitious UCI ProTeams, three of which have received an invitation including TotalEnergies. Two wildcards spots will be Tudor Pro Cycling Team, founded by Fabian Cancellara, and Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team. There will be no Swiss National Team in the men’s starting field this year.
Tour de Suisse route
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The distance from the start in Einsiedeln to the finish in St. Gallen is just over 55 kilometres as the crow flies. For the field of riders in the 86th Tour de Suisse however, it is over 1,100 kilometres with more than 18,000 metres of elevation gain to traverse between start and finish.
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