2018 Tour de Suisse
Male Team 09 - 17 Jun

Tour de Suisse

1212 Kilometers 9 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Andrey Amador
  2. Daniele Bennati
  3. Víctor De la Parte
  4. Mikel Landa
  5. Nelson Oliveira
  6. Nairo Quintana
  7. José Joaquín Rojas
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Timetable

All stages are expected to finish around 5.20pm CEST except for two: the mountain finish in Arosa (Friday 15th) and the Bellinzona ITT (Suday 17th), scheduled to finish around 4.20pm.  
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Bonus

There will be 10-6-4" up for grabs for the top three finishes in all seven road stages, plus 3-2-1" at intermediate sprints.
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Social Media

The race's official Twitter account is @tds; the hashtag, #tourdesuisse. Over at @Movistar_Team we will be bringing you info 'on site' on our riders' efforts during the nine-day contest.
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Score

2007, 2012 and 2013 were the three times before this season when the Movistar Team won the Tour de Suisse overall, twice with Rui Costa and once with Vladimir Karpets. More info here.

Stages

Analysis

01
Frauenfeld (CRE / TTT) (18.3km)
09 June
  1. 01 BMC Racing Team 20'18"
  2. 02 Team Sunweb +20"
  3. 03 Quick Step +27"
  4. 06 Movistar Team +33" Team: Nairo Quintana Andrey Amador Daniele Bennati Víctor De la Parte Mikel Landa Nelson Oliveira José Joaquín Rojas
02
Frauenfeld (155km)
10 June
  1. 01 Peter Sagan Bora-Hansgrohe 3h50'09"
  2. 02 Fernando Gaviria Quick Step "
  3. 03 Nathan Haas Katusha-Alpecin "
  4. 29 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team "
  5. 36 Nairo Quintana Movistar Team "
  6. 43 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team "
  7. 52 Mikel Landa Movistar Team "
  8. 56 Andrey Amador Movistar Team "
  9. 77 Víctor De la Parte Movistar Team +2'02"
  10. 109 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team "
03
Oberstammheim - Gansingen (182.8km)
11 June
  1. 01 Sonny Colbrelli Bahrain-Merida 4h39'51"
  2. 02 Fernando Gaviria Quick Step "
  3. 03 Peter Sagan Bora-Hansgrohe "
  4. 27 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team "
  5. 39 Andrey Amador Movistar Team "
  6. 45 Mikel Landa Movistar Team "
  7. 50 Nairo Quintana Movistar Team "
  8. 83 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +2'07"
  9. 97 Víctor De la Parte Movistar Team +3'10"
  10. 119 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team +3'56"
04
Gansingen - Gstaad (189.2km)
12 June
  1. 01 Chris Juul-Jensen Mitchelton-Scott 4h35'56"
  2. 02 Michael Matthews Team Sunweb +8"
  3. 03 Yves Lampaert Quick Step "
  4. 16 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team "
  5. 35 Nairo Quintana Movistar Team "
  6. 39 Mikel Landa Movistar Team "
  7. 41 Andrey Amador Movistar Team "
  8. 91 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team +5'22"
  9. 92 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team "
  10. 116 Víctor De la Parte Movistar Team +7'25"
05
Gstaad - Leukerbad (155.7km)
13 June
  1. 01 Diego Ulissi UAE Team Emirates 3h37'31"
  2. 02 Enric Mas Quick Step "
  3. 03 Tom-Jelte Slagter Dimension Data "
  4. 07 Nairo Quintana Movistar Team "
  5. 19 Mikel Landa Movistar Team +14"
  6. 21 Andrey Amador Movistar Team "
  7. 48 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team +6'20"
  8. 57 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +13'37"
  9. 61 Víctor De la Parte Movistar Team +14'48"
  10. 77 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team +18'36"
06
Fiesch - Gommiswald (186km)
14 June
  1. 01 Soren Kragh Andersen Team Sunweb 4h59'53"
  2. 02 Nathan Haas Katusha-Alpecin +10"
  3. 03 Gorka Izagirre Bahrain-Merida +24"
  4. 18 Nairo Quintana Movistar Team +39"
  5. 21 Mikel Landa Movistar Team "
  6. 37 Andrey Amador Movistar Team +1'25"
  7. 52 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team +2'54"
  8. 68 Víctor De la Parte Movistar Team +3'56"
  9. 71 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +4'44"
  10. 73 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team "
07
Eschenbach - Arosa (170.5km)
15 June
  1. 01 Nairo Quintana Movistar Team 4h01'39"
  2. 02 Jakob Fuglsang Astana Pro Team +22"
  3. 03 Richie Porte BMC Racing Team "
  4. 09 Mikel Landa Movistar Team +50"
  5. 43 Víctor De la Parte Movistar Team +9'18"
  6. 56 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team +14'29"
  7. 67 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +19'50"
  8. 68 Andrey Amador Movistar Team "
  9. 127 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team +29'57"
08
Bellinzona (123.8km)
16 June
  1. 01 Arnaud Démare Groupama-FDJ 2h41'07"
  2. 02 Fernando Gaviria Quick Step "
  3. 03 Alexander Kristoff UAE Team Emirates "
  4. 20 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team "
  5. 21 Nairo Quintana Movistar Team "
  6. 27 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team "
  7. 34 Mikel Landa Movistar Team "
  8. 67 Víctor De la Parte Movistar Team +23"
  9. 91 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +1'02"
  10. 92 Andrey Amador Movistar Team "
09
Bellinzona (CRI / ITT) (34.1km)
17 June
  1. 01 Stefan Küng BMC Racing Team 39'44"
  2. 02 Soren Krag Andersen Team Sunweb +19"
  3. 03 Tejay van Garderen BMC Racing Team +23"
  4. 10 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +46"
  5. 28 Andrey Amador Movistar Team +1'35"
  6. 35 Víctor De la Parte Movistar Team +1'54"
  7. 38 Nairo Quintana Movistar Team +1'59"
  8. 54 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team +2'32"
  9. 78 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team +3'22"
  10. 86 Mikel Landa Movistar Team +3'33"

Analysis

Nairo Quintana and Mikel Landa will be lining up together during the 82nd Tour de Suisse, a UCI WorldTour race which two of the Blue squad’s big leaders will use to test their legs before the 2018 Tour de France.

It will be a contest with plenty of different scenarios, as well as long and demanding. The nine-day event will start in Frauenfeld -northeast of the Helvetic Confederation- with an 18km TTT (Saturday 9th) and a rolling circuit of 155 kilometers (Sunday 10th). It won’t be an easy race for the sprinters, both stage two and three featuring some difficulties – the one to Gansingen (182km, Monday 11th) over no less than five Cat-3 ascents in Hagenfirst and Bürersteig, prior to the four main mountain stages.

Tuesday 12th will see the bunch taking on the Saanenmöser (Cat-2), 7km at 5%, before a descent into Gstaad (189km). A day later (Wednesday 13th), the race will tackle the Leukerbad climb (Cat-1; 14km at 4.4%) after the Col du Pillon (Cat-1), right from the départ, and Montana (HC) before the finish. Thursday 14th will be a day of ‘passes’ -the Furka (HC) and Klausen (HC)- before a short, Cat-3 finishing ascent to Gommiswald. And finally, on stage seven (Friday 15th), a tough final 4km (8.5% average; last km flat) will lead the riders towards the finish of Arosa.

The Tour de Suisse will finish at the Italian-speaking Ticino canton, with two stages on Saturday and Sunday: a semi-urban circuit (123km) and a more than decisive ITT – mainly flat, with some little hills in between – to end the race over 34.1 kilometers in Bellinzona.