Tour de Suisse 1948
Final score | ||
Tour winner | Ferdy Kübler | 41:53:58 h |
Second | Giulio Bresci | + 18:10 min |
Third | Hans Sommer | + 20:28 min |
Fourth | Jean Robic | + 25:46 min |
fifth | Jean churches | + 28:30 min |
Sixth | Armando Peverelli | + 30:14 min |
seventh | Alfredo Martini | + 35:07 min |
Eighth | Georges Aeschlimann | + 38:56 min |
Ninth | Jean Goldschmit | + 40:00 min |
Tenth | Hugo Koblet | + 46:01 min |
Mountain scoring | Ferdy Kübler | 38.5 p. |
Second | Jean Robic | 32.0 P. |
Third | Angelo Menon | 32.0 P. |
The 12th Tour de Suisse took place from June 12th to 16th, 1948. It led over seven stages and a total distance of 1,412.4 kilometers.
As in 1942 , the overall winner was Ferdy Kübler from Switzerland . The tour started in Zurich with 64 drivers, 40 of whom made it to the finish - again in Zurich.
This Tour de Suisse event was overshadowed by a tragic accident: on the fourth stage from Thun to Altdorf , the Belgian racing driver Richard Depoorter , who at that time was in a promising position for second place in the overall standings, crashed into a poorly lit tunnel Water deadly.
At first it was said that he died immediately as a result of the fall. Two later autopsies in Belgium revealed that there were tire marks on Depoorter's body, and several witnesses, including the French journalist Jean Leulliot and the sports director of the French team La Perla , Francis Pélissier , said that a Belgian escort vehicle had run over him . According to other witnesses, the tour leader Carl Senn instructed them to remain silent about the course of the accident they had observed. After ten years of litigation, it was found that the escort vehicle had run over Depoorter; the driver was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to pay the widow a sum of 1.5 million Belgian francs in damages .
On the 60th anniversary of Depoorter's death, a delegation headed by the mayor of Ichtegem traveled to Wassen for a memorial event and laid a bundle of alpine roses at the site of the accident, and a plaque was unveiled. The tunnel is now called the Depoorter Tunnel .
Depoorter's fatal fall is the only death of a racing driver in the Tour de Suisse to date (as of 2014).
Stages
stage | Day | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Overall rating |
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1st stage a | June 12 | Zurich - Olten | 154.3 | Ferdy Kübler | |
1st stage B | June 12 | Olten - Basel | 75.6 | Jean Robic | Ferdy Kübler |
2nd stage | June 13th | Basel - La Chaux-de-Fonds | 189.1 | Giulio Bresci | |
3rd stage A | 14th June | La Chaux-de-Fonds - Morges | 100.7 | Jean Goldschmit | |
3rd stage B | 14th June | Morges - Thun | 156.3 | Ferdy Kübler | |
4th stage | June 16 | Thun - Altdorf | 134.4 | Jean Robic | |
5th stage | 17th of June | Altdorf - Lugano | 152.8 | Hugo Koblet | |
6th stage | 18th of June | Lugano - Arosa | 189 | Ferdy Kübler | |
7. Stage A | June 19th | Arosa - Flawil | 149.7 | Walter Diggelmann | |
7th stage B | June 19th | Flawil - Zurich | 110.5 | Ferdy Kübler |
Web links
- Tour de Suisse website
- Tour de Suisse - Statistics. Tour de Suisse, accessed January 29, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Gisler-Jauch: The mountain of files on the death of the racing cyclist Richard Depoorter. wassen.ch, accessed on February 2, 2015 .
- ^ Graziano Orsi: Alpenrosen vom Sustenpass for Richard Depoorter. wassen.ch, accessed on February 2, 2015 .