2018 Tour de Suisse

Dates9–17 June 2018

Stages9

Distance1,215.4 km (755.2 mi)

2018 Tour de Suisse

2018 UCI World Tour, race 24 of 37

Race details

Dates

9–17 June 2018

Stages

9

Distance

1,215.4 km (755.2 mi)

Results


Winner	Richie Porte (AUS)	(BMC Racing Team)
Second	Jakob Fuglsang (DEN)	(Astana)
Third	Nairo Quintana (COL)	(Movistar Team)
Points	Peter Sagan (SVK)	(Bora–Hansgrohe)
Mountains	Mark Christian (GBR)	(Aqua Blue Sport)
Team	Astana

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The 2018 Tour de Suisse was a road cycling stage race that took place between 9 and 17 June 2018 in Switzerland. It was the 82nd edition of the Tour de Suisse and the twenty-fourth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.^[1]^[2] The race was won by Richie Porte of BMC Racing Team.

Stage characteristics and winners
Stage	Date	Route	Distance		Winner
1	9 June	Frauenfeld to Frauenfeld	18.3 km (11.4 mi)	Team time trial	BMC Racing Team
2	10 June	Frauenfeld to Frauenfeld	155 km (96.3 mi)	Hilly stage	Peter Sagan (SVK)
3	11 June	Oberstammheim to Gansingen	182.8 km (113.6 mi)	Hilly stage	Sonny Colbrelli (ITA)
4	12 June	Gansingen to Gstaad	189.2 km (117.6 mi)	Hilly stage	Christopher Juul-Jensen (DEN)
5	13 June	Gstaad to Leukerbad	155.7 km (96.7 mi)	Mountain stage	Diego Ulissi (ITA)
6	14 June	Fiesch to Gommiswald	186 km (115.6 mi)	Mountain stage	Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN)
7	15 June	Eschenbach to Arosa	170.5 km (105.9 mi)	Mountain stage	Nairo Quintana (COL)
8	16 June	Bellinzona to Bellinzona	123.8 km (76.9 mi)	Plain stage	Arnaud Démare (FRA)
9	17 June	Bellinzona to Bellinzona	34.1 km (21.2 mi)	Individual time trial	Stefan Küng (SUI)
Total			1,215.4 km (755.2 mi)

Teams

As the Tour de Suisse is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Three UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 21-team peloton.

UCI WorldTeams

UCI Professional Continental teams

Stages

Classification leadership table

In the Tour de Suisse, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of mass-start stages; these were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the individual time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the classification received a yellow jersey;^[12] it was considered the most important of the 2017 Tour de Suisse, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.

Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a black jersey.^[12] In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 5 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 10 points, with 8 for second, 6 for third, 4 for fourth and 2 for 5th place.^[12] Points towards the classification could also be accrued – awarded on a 6–3–1 scale – at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.^[12]

Points for the mountains classification
Position	1	2	3	4	5
Points for Hors-category	20	15	10	6	4
Points for Category 1	12	8	6	4	2
Points for Category 2	8	6	4	2	1
Points for Category 3	3	2	1	0

There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a blue jersey.^[12] In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either hors, first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.^[12]

The fourth and final jersey represented the classification for Swiss riders, marked by a red jersey.^[12] This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Switzerland were eligible to be ranked in the classification.^[12] There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.^[12] In addition, there was a combativity award given after each stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have been most active, or in the case of the individual time trials, the stage winner was automatically deemed the most active rider.^[12]

Classification leadership by stage
Stage	Winner	General classification	Mountains classification	Points classification	Young rider classification	Team classification
1	BMC Racing Team	Stefan Küng	Not awarded	Not awarded	Sam Oomen	BMC Racing Team
2	Peter Sagan		Filippo Zaccanti	Calvin Watson
3	Sonny Colbrelli			Calvin Watson
4	Christopher Juul-Jensen			Peter Sagan
5	Diego Ulissi	Richie Porte	Romain Sicard			Movistar Team
6	Søren Kragh Andersen		Mark Christian			Movistar Team
7	Nairo Quintana			Michael Matthews	Enric Mas	Astana
8	Arnaud Démare			Peter Sagan
9	Stefan Küng			Peter Sagan
Final		Richie Porte	Mark Christian	Peter Sagan	Enric Mas	Astana

v t e 2018 UCI World Tour
Races	Tour Down Under Great Ocean Road Race Abu Dhabi Tour Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Strade Bianche Paris–Nice Tirreno–Adriatico Milan–San Remo Volta a Catalunya E3 Harelbeke Gent–Wevelgem Dwars door Vlaanderen Tour of Flanders Tour of the Basque Country Paris–Roubaix Amstel Gold Race La Flèche Wallonne Liège–Bastogne–Liège Tour de Romandie Eschborn-Frankfurt Giro d'Italia Tour of California Critérium du Dauphiné Tour de Suisse Tour de France Clásica de San Sebastián Tour de Pologne RideLondon–Surrey Classic BinckBank Tour Vuelta a España EuroEyes Cyclassics Bretagne Classic Ouest–France GP de Québec GP de Montréal Presidential Tour of Turkey Il Lombardia Tour of Guangxi
Teams	AG2R La Mondiale Astana Bahrain–Merida BMC Racing Team Bora–Hansgrohe EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale Team Dimension Data FDJ Team Katusha–Alpecin Lotto–Soudal LottoNL–Jumbo Movistar Team Mitchelton–Scott Quick-Step Floors Team Sky Team Sunweb Trek–Segafredo UAE Team Emirates
List of 2018 UCI WorldTeams and riders

2018 Tour de Suisse

Teams

Stages

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 5

Stage 6

Stage 7

Stage 8

Stage 9

Classification leadership table

References

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