Tour de Suisse 1953

Final score
Tour winner	Hugo Koblet	50:22:11 h
Second	Fritz Schär	+ 18:40 min
Third	Danilo Barozzi	+ 23:20 min
Fourth	Carlo Clerici	+ 24:28 min
fifth	Pasquale Fornara	+ 29:11 min
Sixth	Nino Defillippis	+ 29:30 min
seventh	Donato Zampini	+ 20:26 min
Eighth	Marcel Huber	+ 32:41 min
Ninth	Martin Metzger	+ 35:41 min
Tenth	Joseph Cerami	+ 41:51 min
Mountain scoring	Fritz Schär	52 P.
Second	Rolf Graf	28 p.
Third	Hugo Koblet	26 p.

The 17th Tour de Suisse took place from June 17 to 24, 1953. It led over eight stages and a total distance of 1762 kilometers.

Overall winner was the Swiss Hugo Koblet , who won the Tour de Suisse for the second time after 1950 . The tour started in Zurich with 76 drivers, 54 of whom came to the finish.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	17th of June	Zurich - Brugg	238	Fritz Schär	Fritz Schär
2nd stage	18th of June	Brugg - Rheinfelden	241	Omer Van Der Voorden
3rd stage	June 19th	Rheinfelden - Solothurn	78 (EZF)	Hugo Koblet	Hugo Koblet
4th stage	20th June	Solothurn - Lausanne	253	Alfredo Pasotti
5th stage	June 21st	Lausanne - Lucerne	295	Martin Metzger
6th stage	June 22	Lucerne - Bellinzona	189	Hugo Koblet
7th stage	23rd June	Bellinzona - St. Moritz	215	Martin Metzger
8th stage	June 24th	St. Moritz - Zurich	253	Hugo Koblet

Web links

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