Tour de Suisse 1941

Final score
Tour winner	Josef Wagner	16:59:10 h
Second	Werner Buchwalder	+ 0:00 min
Third	Ferdy Kübler	+ 11:42 min
Fourth	Hans Maag	+ 16:22 min
fifth	Hans Knecht	+ 20:53 min
Sixth	André Hardegger	+ 24:06 min
seventh	Walter Diggelmann	+ 30:05 min
Eighth	Robert Zimmermann	+ 30:44 min
Ninth	Fritz Saladin	+ 37:14 min
Tenth	Karl Wyss	+ 38:52 min

The 8th Tour de Suisse took place on August 23 and 24, 1941. Because of the Second World War , only three stages were held over a distance of 606.7 kilometers, the shortest Tour de Suisse in history. Except for one Italian driver, only Swiss people were at the start, special ratings were canceled.

The overall winner was the Swiss Josef Wagner . The tour started in Zurich with 44 drivers, 29 of whom finished in Bern . After 606 kilometers, Wagner and Werner Buchwalder were at the same time, which is why a track sprint should decide the victory. Due to rain and falling darkness, the run-off was relocated from the Oerlikon Open Race Track to the Hallenstadion , where Wagner secured the victory.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	August 23	Zurich - Lausanne	300	Werner Buchwalder	Werner Buchwalder
2nd stage	August 24th	Lausanne - Bern	118.1	Ferdy Kübler	Josef Wagner
3rd stage	August 24th	Bern - Zurich	188.6	Robert Zimmermann

Web links

• Tour de Suisse website
• Tour de Suisse - Statistics. Tour de Suisse, accessed January 29, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Milestones: Tour de Suisse. (No longer available online.) In: tourdesuisse.ch. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.