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