Tour de Suisse 1954

Final score
Tour winner	Pasquale Fornara	41:28:37 h
Second	Agostino Coletto	+ 2:54 min
Third	Giancarlo Astrua	+ 3:36 min
Fourth	Bruno Monti	+ 5:21 min
fifth	Fausto Coppi	+ 5:32 min
Sixth	Marcel Huber	+ 7:40 min
seventh	Primo Volpi	+ 16:38 min
Eighth	Gilbert Vermotte	+ 17:52 min
Ninth	Armin Russenberger	+ 17:58 min
Tenth	Walter Serena	+ 18:15 min
Mountain scoring	Fausto Coppi	35 p.
Second	Giancarlo Astrua	33 P.
Third	Hans Hollenstein	30 p.

The 18th Tour de Suisse took place from August 7th to 14th, 1954. It led over seven stages and a total distance of 1,477 kilometers.

Overall winner was the Italian Pasquale Fornara , who won the Tour de Suisse for the second time after 1952 . The tour started in Zurich with 70 drivers, 50 of whom made it to the finish - also in Zurich.

The third stage led to Lecco, Italy , making it the first to go beyond the borders of Switzerland.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	August 7th	Zurich - Winterthur	221	Bruno Monti	Bruno Monti
2nd stage	August 9	Winterthur - Davos	245	Fausto Coppi
3rd stage	August 10	Davos - Lecco	184	Donato Zampini
4th stage	August 11th	Lecco - Lugano	98 (EZF)	Fausto Coppi	Pasquale Fornara
5th stage	12. August	Lugano - Bern	272	Hans Hollenstein
6th stage	13 August	Bern - Freiburg	228	Primo Volpi
7th stage	August 14th	Freiburg - Zurich	229	Eugene Kamer

Web links

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