Tour de Suisse 1948

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Final score
Tour winner SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ferdy Kübler 41:53:58 h
Second ItalyItaly Giulio Bresci + 18:10 min
Third SwitzerlandSwitzerland Hans Sommer + 20:28 min
Fourth FranceFrance Jean Robic + 25:46 min
fifth LuxembourgLuxembourg Jean churches + 28:30 min
Sixth ItalyItaly Armando Peverelli + 30:14 min
seventh ItalyItaly Alfredo Martini + 35:07 min
Eighth SwitzerlandSwitzerland Georges Aeschlimann + 38:56 min
Ninth LuxembourgLuxembourg Jean Goldschmit + 40:00 min
Tenth SwitzerlandSwitzerland Hugo Koblet + 46:01 min
Mountain scoring SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ferdy Kübler 38.5 p.
Second FranceFrance Jean Robic 32.0 P.
Third ItalyItaly 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 Jersey yellow.svg Overall rating
1st stage a June 12 Zurich - Olten 154.3 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ferdy Kübler
1st stage B June 12 Olten - Basel 75.6 FranceFrance Jean Robic SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ferdy Kübler
2nd stage June 13th Basel - La Chaux-de-Fonds 189.1 ItalyItaly Giulio Bresci
3rd stage A 14th June La Chaux-de-Fonds - Morges 100.7 LuxembourgLuxembourg Jean Goldschmit
3rd stage B 14th June Morges - Thun 156.3 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ferdy Kübler
4th stage June 16 Thun - Altdorf 134.4 FranceFrance Jean Robic
5th stage 17th of June Altdorf - Lugano 152.8 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Hugo Koblet
6th stage 18th of June Lugano - Arosa 189 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ferdy Kübler
7. Stage A June 19th Arosa - Flawil 149.7 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Diggelmann
7th stage B June 19th Flawil - Zurich 110.5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ferdy Kübler

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Gisler-Jauch: The mountain of files on the death of the racing cyclist Richard Depoorter. wassen.ch, accessed on February 2, 2015 .
  2. ^ Graziano Orsi: Alpenrosen vom Sustenpass for Richard Depoorter. wassen.ch, accessed on February 2, 2015 .