Tour de Suisse 1957

Final score
Tour winner	Pasquale Fornara	44:32:16 h
Second	Edgard Sorgeloos	+ 1:21 min
Third	Attilio Moresi	+ 1:42 min
Fourth	Hennes Junkermann	+ 2:14 min
fifth	Lothar Friedrich	+ 2:45 min
Sixth	Hilaire Couvreur	+ 3:00 min
seventh	Carlo Clerici	+ 8:47 min
Eighth	Nino Assirelli	+ 11:35 min
Ninth	Raymond Reisser	+ 13:20 min
Tenth	Adolf Christian	+ 13:40 min
Scoring	Edgard Sorgeloos	30 p.
Second	Lothar Friedrich	70 p.
Third	Pasquale Fornara	70 p.
Mountain scoring	Pasquale Fornara	41.0 P.
Second	Lothar Friedrich	35.5 p.
Third	Attilio Moresi	33.0 P.
Team evaluation	Peugeot BP	133: 46: 44 h
Second	Cilo Toscanelli	133: 58: 24 hours
Third	Coppi-Carpano	134: 17: 16 h

The 21st Tour de Suisse took place from June 12th to 19th, 1957. It led over eight stages and a total distance of 1567.6 kilometers.

The overall winner was the Italian Pasquale Fornara ; it was his third victory on the tour. The tour started in Zurich with 66 drivers, 45 of whom made it to the finish - also in Zurich.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	June 12	Zurich - Thalwil	223	Max Schellenberg	Max Schellenberg
2nd stage	June 13th	Thalwil - Basel	215	Ernst Traxel
3rd stage	14th June	Basel - La Chaux-de-Fonds	196	Stefano Gaggero	Pasquale Fornara
4th stage	15th June	La Chaux-de-Fonds - Bern	213	Edgard Sorgeloos
5th stage a	June 16	Bern - Bern	14.6 (MZF)	Pasquale Fornara Raphaël Geminiani Erwin Swiss
5th stage B	June 16	Bern - Lucerne	103	Roger Van Damme
6th stage	17th of June	Lucerne - Lugano	207	Rolf Graf
7th stage	18th of June	Lugano - Vaduz	204	Colombo Cassano
8th stage	June 19th	Lugano - Vaduz	204	Heinz Müller

Web links

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