Tour de Suisse 1946

Final score
Tour winner	Gino Bartali	54:41:07 h
Second	Sepp Wagner	+ 16:30 min
Third	Aldo Ronconi	+ 16:38 min
Fourth	René Vietto	+ 20:11 min
fifth	Norbert Callens	+ 30:58 min
Sixth	Jean Engels	+ 43:31 min
seventh	Julian Berrendero	+ 47:31 min
Eighth	Ernst Naef	+ 48:45 min
Ninth	Robert Lang	+ 48:49 min
Tenth	Willy Kern	+ 49:00 min
Mountain scoring	Gino Bartali	60 p.
Second	Fermín Trueba	55.5 p.
Third	Aldo Ronconi	42 P.
Team evaluation	Italy	165: 17: 38 h

Gino Bartali won the Tour de Suisse in 1946 and 1947

The 10th Tour de Suisse took place from July 13th to 20th, 1946. It led over eight stages and a total distance of 1,844.9 kilometers.

The overall winner was the Italian Gino Bartali . He won the first stage from Zurich to Basel and kept the leadership jersey until the finish. Most recently he was 16:30 minutes ahead of the second, Sepp Wagner .

The tour started in Zurich with 60 drivers, 32 of whom made it to the finish - again in Zurich. The Swiss cycling idol Ferdy Kübler was not there because he suffered a double fractured skull in the sprint of the Zurich-Lausanne road race.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	July 13th	Zurich - Basel	250	Gino Bartali	Gino Bartali
2nd stage	July 14th	Basel - Morges	264.4	Renzo Zanazzi
3rd stage A	15th of July	Morges - Murten	150.2	Guy Lapébie
3rd stage B	15th of July	Murten - Bern	145.2	Josef Wagner
4th stage	16th of July	Bern - train	201	Hans Martin
5th stage	17th July	Train - Lugano	214.8	Gino Bartali
6th stage B	July 18th	Lugano - Arosa	189	Gino Bartali
7th stage	July 19	Arosa - St. Gallen	241.5	Louis Thiétard
8th stage	20th of July	St. Gallen - Zurich	227.7	Gino Bartali

literature

• Martin Born, Sepp Renggli : Tour de Suisse: 75 years 1933–2008 . Ed .: Peter Schnyder. AS Verlag, 2011, p. 104-105 .

Web links

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