
Male Team 11 - 18 Jun Tour de Suisse
Tour de Suisse
1114 Kilometers 8 Stages
There will be 10-6-4″ at the road stage finishes and 3-2-1″ at the intermediate sprints.
Three overall victories have been achieved by Eusebio Unzué’s squads at the men’s Tour de Suisse: one with Vladimir Karpets (2007) and another two, consecutive, by Rui Costa (2012, 2013).
Not much terrain left to dull racing at the 2023 men’s Tour de Suisse, with no less than four hilly or mountainous stages and two time trials bookending this eight-day event.
The opening ITT (Sunday 11th) isn’t even a prologue as in other races: it’s a very reasonable 12km, in and around Einsiedeln, preceding the first of only two likely sprints (Nottwil, on Monday 12th; the other one should happen on the penultimate day in Weinfelden) and the long, hard Helvetic climbs.
A visit to Romandy will open the climbing phase of the race, with a finish atop Villars-sur-Ollon (Tuesday 13th); after that, we will go through Crans-Montana (Cat-1) and Dorben (Cat-1) en route to Leukerbad (Wednesday 14th); and on the Queen stage, day five, Furka (HC) and Oberalp (Cat-1) from the start and Albula (HC) before the downhill to La Punt.
Prior to the decisive 25km ITT in St. Gallen (Sunday 18th), a hilly stage six, suited to a breakaway, will get the riders to Oberwil-Lieli (Friday 16th). Watch out for the mileages: both this stage and La Punt’s are above 200 kilometers.