Tour de Suisse 1961

Final score
Tour winner	Attilio Moresi	37:08:06 h
Second	Hilaire Couvreur	+ 4:10 min
Third	Fredy Rüegg	+ 7:12 min
Fourth	Italo Mazzacurati	+ 9:10 min
fifth	Germano Barale	+ 13:07 min
Sixth	Carlo Azzini	+ 13:13 min
seventh	Ernesto Bono	+ 13:32 min
Eighth	Jef Planckaert	+ 14:38 min
Ninth	Arnaldo di Maria	+ 20:21 min
Tenth	Kurt Gimmi	+ 22:32 min
Scoring	Attilio Moresi	39 P.
Second	Italo Mazzacurati	60 p.
Third	Fredy Rüegg	60 p.
Mountain scoring	Hilaire Couvreur	50 p.
Second	Fredy Rüegg	29 p.
Third	Attilio Moresi	25 p.
Team evaluation	Carpano	111: 25: 11 h
Second	Ignis	111: 55: 28 h
Third	San Pellegrino	112: 34: 06 h

The 25th Tour de Suisse took place from June 15 to 21, 1961. It led over seven stages and a total distance of 1,357.5 kilometers.

The overall winner was the Swiss Attilio Moresi . The tour started in Zurich with 63 drivers, 44 of whom finished in Lucerne .

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	15th June	Zurich - Laufenburg	211	Fredy Rüegg	Fredy Rüegg
2nd stage	June 16	Laufenburg - Chur	231	Yvo Molenaers	Attilio Moresi
3rd stage	17th of June	Chur - Locarno	169	Rolf Graf
4th stage	18th of June	Locarno - Varese	074.5 (EZF)	Rolf Graf
5th stage	June 19th	Varese - Saas-Fee	188	Kurt Gimmi
6th stage	20th June	Saas-Fee - Payerne	235	Maurice Meuleman
7th stage	June 21st	Payerne - Lucerne	249	Horst Oldenburg

Web links

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