Tour de Suisse 1952

Final score
Tour winner	Pasquale Fornara	46:13:25 h
Second	Ferdy Kübler	+ 4:57 min
Third	Carlo Clerici	+ 6:56 min
Fourth	Joseph Cerami	+ 12:49 min
fifth	Pietro Guidici	+ 15:49 min
Sixth	Jean Goldschmit	+ 19:14 min
seventh	Fritz Schär	+ 20:26 min
Eighth	Marcel Demulder	+ 20:27 min
Ninth	André Brulé	+ 21:16 min
Tenth	Ugo Fondelli	+ 22:00 min
Mountain scoring	Ferdy Kübler	56 P.
Second	Martin Metzger	42 P.
Third	Pasquale Fornara	41 P.

The 16th Tour de Suisse took place from June 14 to 21, 1952. It led over eight stages and a total distance of 1608 kilometers.

The overall winner was the Italian Pasquale Fornara , who subsequently won the Tour de Suisse three more times - in 1954 , 1957 and 1958 - and is thus the record holder (until 2014). The tour started in Zurich with 75 drivers, 45 of whom made it to the finish - also in Zurich .

As in previous years, the two Swiss rivals (the two "K") Ferdy Kübler and Hugo Koblet were paralyzed , from which their rivals Désiré Keteleer and Jean Goldschmit were able to benefit on the first four stages. Koblet had a kidney infection and the tour boss Carl Senn sent a doctor to him with the order: "Make Koblet fit, à tout prix." On this occasion, Koblet is said to have been given an injection with the amphetamine Akcedron against his will and without his knowledge , which caused lasting damage to his heart.

In fact, Koblet collapsed on the fifth stage, an individual time trial , but Kübler also lost five minutes to Fornara, who took over the gold jersey . The next day, Koblet gave up. His good friend Fornara kept the lead until the finish in Zurich after winning two more stages.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	14th June	Zurich - Basel	249	Désiré Keteleer	Désiré Keteleer
2nd stage	15th June	Basel - Le Locle	220	Fritz Schär
3rd stage	June 16	Le Locle - Adelboden	204	Walter Diggelmann
4th stage	17th of June	Adelboden - Monthey	235	Jean Goldschmit	Jean Goldschmit
5th stage	18th of June	Monthey - Crans-Montana	81 (EZF)	Pasquale Fornara	Pasquale Fornara
6th stage	June 19th	Crans-Montana - Locarno	201	Ferdy Kübler
7th stage	20th June	Locarno - Arosa	177	Pasquale Fornara
8th stage	June 21st	Arosa - Zurich	241	Emilio Croci-Torti

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Born, Sepp Renggli : Tour de Suisse: 75 years 1933–2008 . Ed .: Peter Schnyder. AS Verlag, 2011, p. 118 .
2. ^ Martin Born / Hanspeter Born / Sepp Renggli: Hugo Koblet. The “Pedaleur de charme” , Zurich 2005, p. 136.