Tour de Suisse 2018
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Tour de Suisse - Overview
Richie Porte secured overall victory at the Tour de Suisse on Sunday while BMC Racing teammate Stefan Küng claimed the final stage win.
Kung covered the 34km individual time trial in 39:44, 19 seconds better than runner-up Søren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb) and 23 seconds faster than teammate Tejay van Garderen in third.
Porte claimed his overall win by 1:02 over Astana's Jakob Fuglsang, who jumped from sixth overall to second with his time trial performance. Third-placed Nairo Quintana (Movistar) finished 38th on the day and dropped from second overall to third.
2018 Tour de Suisse stage 9 top 10
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
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1 | Stefan Küng (Swi) BMC Racing Team | 0:39:44 |
2 | Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb | 0:00:19 |
3 | Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team | 0:00:23 |
4 | Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe | 0:00:26 |
5 | Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb | Row 4 - Cell 2 |
6 | Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Team Sky | 0:00:37 |
7 | Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott | Row 6 - Cell 2 |
8 | Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team | 0:00:38 |
9 | Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb | 0:00:44 |
10 | Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team | 0:00:46 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
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1 | Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 29:28:05 |
2 | Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team | 0:01:02 |
3 | Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team | 0:01:12 |
4 | Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors | 0:01:20 |
5 | Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb | 0:01:21 |
6 | Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin | 0:01:47 |
7 | Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb | 0:01:52 |
8 | Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 0:01:59 |
9 | Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 0:02:27 |
10 | Arthur Vichot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ | 0:02:41 |
Overview
It's the time of the year when riders choose between the Criterium du Dauphine (June 3-10) and the Tour de Suisse (June 9-17), as they prepare for the Tour de France in July.
This year's Tour de Suisse will boast a field that includes defending champion Simon Spilak (Katusha-Alpecin), Richie Porte (BMC Racing), Nairo Quintana and Mikel Landa (Movistar), and Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo), who will use the mountainous terrain to test their legs against one another.
The field will also see a series of the fastest sprinters in the world, who will also likely face-off at the Tour de France, such as world champion Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), Sunweb's Michael Matthews, Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain-Merida), John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo), Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ), Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal), Quick-Step's Fernando Gaviria and Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates).
This year's nine-day race starts with an 18.3km team time trial in Frauenfeld and finishes with a 34km time trial in Bellinzona. Stages 2 and 8 will cater to the sprinters, while there are two summit finishes on stage 5 up to Leukerbad and stage 7 to Arosa. Stage 3 is said to suit the Classics riders such as Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), and then there is everything in between.
Last year, Simon Spilak (Katusha-Alpecin) took the overall victory at the Tour de Suisse ahead of Damiano Caruso (BMC) and Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo).
2017 Tour de Suisse - Final Results
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
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1 | Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin | 28:37:11 |
2 | Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team | 0:00:48 |
3 | Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 0:01:08 |
4 | Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale | 0:02:37 |
5 | Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates | 0:03:09 |
6 | Jon Izaguirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida | 0:03:51 |
7 | Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale | 0:04:00 |
8 | Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:04:14 |
9 | Mikel Nieve (Spa) Team Sky | 0:04:47 |
10 | Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team | 0:05:30 |
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