Tour de Suisse 1959

Final score
Tour winner	Hennes Junkermann	37:57:24 h
Second	Henry Anglade	+ 10:19 min
Third	Federico Bahamontes	+ 10:45 min
Fourth	Giorgio Tinazzi	+ 12:09 min
fifth	Jean Dotto	+ 16:39 min
Sixth	Friedhelm Fischerkeller	+ 28:18 min
seventh	Martin van den Borgh	+ 32:52 min
Eighth	Kurt Gimmi	+ 35:27 min
Ninth	Jean-Claude Grêt	+ 43:06 min
Tenth	Fredy Rüegg	+ 44:47 min
Scoring	Hennes Junkermann	72 P.
Second	Henry Anglade	121 P.
Third	Fredy Rüegg	129 P.
Mountain scoring	Federico Bahamontes	60.0 P.
Second	Hennes Junkermann	56.5 p.
Third	Henry Anglade	33.0 P.

The 23rd Tour de Suisse took place from June 12th to 18th, 1959. It led over seven stages and a total distance of 1317 kilometers.

The overall winner was the German Hennes Junkermann . The tour started in Zurich with 61 drivers, 36 of whom made it to the finish - also in Zurich.

On the first stage, Swiss Rolf Graf , Tour de Suisse winner from 1956, drove as if unleashed, and only Junkermann could keep up with him. The day after, however, Junkermann was able to take over from Graf in leading the tour when he received a 30 second time bonus in pouring rain in Wetzikon . He did not give up this leadership until the goal. The fourth, the “Lukmanier-Oberalp-Etappe”, he finished second behind Antonio Uliana , but five minutes before the next chasing group. Graf, on the other hand, had to give up the race exhausted. Junkermann was the first German winner of the Tour de Suisse since Ludwig Geyer at the second edition in 1934 .

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	June 12	Zurich - Arosa	211	Rolf Graf	Rolf Graf
2nd stage	June 13th	Arosa - Wetzikon	165	Hennes Junkermann	Hennes Junkermann
3rd stage A	14th June	Wetzikon - Siebnen	072	Kurt Gimmi
3rd stage B	14th June	Siebnen - Sattelegg	013 (BZF)	Federico Bahamontes
4th stage	15th June	Siebnen - Bellinzona	208	Antonio Uliana
5th stage	June 16	Bellinzona - Kandersteg	221	Federico Bahamontes
6th stage	17th of June	Kandersteg - Neuchâtel	226	Alcide Vaucher
7th stage	18th of June	Neuchâtel - Zurich	201	Erwin Schweizer

Web links

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

References and comments

1. ^ Martin Born, Sepp Renggli : Tour de Suisse: 75 years 1933–2008 . Ed .: Peter Schnyder. AS Verlag, 2011, p. 143 .
2. ↑ From Arosa to Chur neutralization due to bad weather (31 km)