Tour de Suisse 1972

Final score
Tour winner	Louis Pfenninger	41:22:43 h
Second	Roger Pingeon	+ 0:21 min
Third	Michele Dancelli	+ 1:49 min
Fourth	Erich Spahn	+ 1:51 min
fifth	Joaquim Agostinho	+ 4:26 min
Sixth	Silvano Schiavon	+ 5:04 min
seventh	Derek Harrison	+ 8:28 min
Eighth	Fritz Wehrli	+ 14:08 min
Ninth	Mario Lanzafame	+ 16:07 min
Tenth	Wilfried David	+ 18:03 min
Mountain scoring	Silvano Schiavon	68 P.
Second	Kurt Rub	59 P.
Third	Michele Dancelli	46 P.
Scoring	Michele Dancelli	187 P.
Second	Erich Spahn	158 P.
Third	Georges Pintens	135 P.
Team evaluation	GBC-Sony	121: 03: 25 h
Second	Märki bonanza	121: 07: 57 h
Third	SCIC	121: 11: 39 h

The 36th Tour de Suisse took place from June 15 to 23, 1972. It led over a prologue, ten stages and a total distance of 1,457 kilometers.

As in 1968 , the overall winner was Louis Pfenninger from Switzerland . The tour started in Zurich with 80 drivers, 44 of whom finished in Olten .

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
prolog	15th June	Zurich	009	Goudsmid ( Tino Tabak , Gerard Vianen , Wim Prinsen , Jan Krekels , Wout Wagtmans , Gert Harings , Kurt Rub , Karel Delnoy )	Tino tobacco
1st stage	June 16	Zurich - Brugg	187	Donato Giuliani	Donato Giuliani
2nd stage	June 16	Brugg - Solothurn	097	Giancarlo Polidori
3rd stage	17th of June	Solothurn - Balmberg	012 (BZF)	Joaquim Agostinho
4th stage	18th of June	Solothurn - Gstaad	214	Michele Dancelli	Louis Pfenninger
5th stage	June 19th	Gstaad - Mörel	216	Claudio Michelotto
6th stage	20th June	Mörel - Lugano	172	Michele Dancelli
7th stage	June 21st	Lugano - Schaan	234	Giancarlo Polidori
8th stage	June 22	Schaan - Pfäffikon	174	Wilfried David
9th stage	23rd June	Pfäffikon - Olten	117	Karstens tanning
10th stage	18th of June	Olten - Olten	025 (EZF)	Joaquim Agostinho

Web links

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