Tour de Suisse 1938

Final score
Tour winner	Giovanni Valetti	48:12:16 h
Second	Arsène Mersch	+ 12:49 min
Third	Severino Canavesi	+ 16:20 min
Fourth	Werner Buchwalder	+ 17:07 min
fifth	Leo Amberg	+ 18:10 min
Sixth	Robert Zimmermann	+ 20:07 min
seventh	Cesare Del Cancia	+ 20:58 min
Eighth	Ezio Cecchi	+ 26:39 min
Ninth	Albert Hendrickx	+ 33:26 min
Tenth	Edgar Buchwalder	+ 34:29 min
Mountain scoring	Giovanni Valetti	57 P.
Second	Robert Zimmermann	40 p.
Third	Cesare Del Cancia	40 p.
Team evaluation	Italy	145: 15: 06 h

The 6th Tour de Suisse took place from August 6th to 14th, 1938. The cycle tour was held in eight stages over a distance of 1,683 kilometers.

Overall winner was the Italian Giovanni Valetti , who had also won the Giro d'Italia in the same year . This tour was the first that did not start and end in Zurich - like the previous ones - but Bern was the start and finish. 70 drivers started, 40 of them reached the finish.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	6th of August	Bern - Schaffhausen	270.3	Arsène Mersch	Arsène Mersch
2nd stage	August 7th	Schaffhausen - Chur	227	Hans Martin
3rd stage	8th August	Chur - Bellinzona	127	Giovanni Valetti	Severino Canavesi
4th stage	August 9	Bellinzona - Sierre	198.1	Giovanni Valetti	Giovanni Valetti
5th stage	August 11th	Sierre - Freiburg	186.6	Robert Zimmermann
6th stage	12. August	Friborg - Geneva	183.3	Frans Demondt
7th stage	13 August	Geneva - Biel	219.1	François Neuens
8th stage	August 14th	Biel - Bern	272	Theo Perret

Web links

• Tour de Suisse website
• Tour de Suisse - Statistics. (PDF) Tour de Suisse, accessed on January 29, 2015 .