Tour de Suisse 1976

Final score
Tour winner	Hennie Kuiper	39:09:02 h
Second	Michel Pollentier	+0: ​​42 min
Third	José Pesarrodona	+1: 23 min
Fourth	José Martins	+1: 41 min
fifth	Bert Pronk	+1: 46 min
Sixth	André Romero	+2: 07 min
seventh	Freddy Maertens	+5: 14 min
Eighth	Dietrich Thurau	+8: 00 min
Ninth	Ferdinand Julien	+ 10:01 min
Tenth	Enrique Martínez Heredia	+ 12:09 min
Scoring	Freddy Maertens	176
Second	Michel Pollentier	158
Third	André Roméro	132
Mountain scoring	José Martins	38 P.
Second	André Roméro	35 p.
Third	Bert Pronk	27 P.
Team evaluation	Raleigh-Campagnolo	115: 20: 47 h
Second	Kas Campagnolo	+5: 23 min
Third	Flandria - Velda	+26: 14 min

The 40th Tour de Suisse took place from June 9th to 18th, 1976. It was held in eleven stages and a prologue over a distance of 1,456.5 kilometers.

The overall winner was Hennie Kuiper from the Netherlands . The tour started in Murten with an individual time trial as a prologue and 91 drivers, of which 62 drivers also crossed the finish line in Murten on the last day.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
prolog	June 9th	Murten ( EZF )	4th	Freddy Maertens	Freddy Maertens
1st stage	June 10th	Murten - Bremgarten	181	Freddy Maertens
2nd stage	June 11th	Bremgarten - Amden	155	Michel Pollentier	Michel Pollentier
3rd stage	June 12	Amden - Vaduz	169	Hennie Kuiper	Hennie Kuiper
4th stage	June 13th	Vaduz - Lenzerheide	108	Michel Pollentier
5th stage	June 13th	Lenzerheide (circuit racing)	25th	René Savary
6th stage	14th June	Lenzerheide - Locarno	186.5	Dietrich Thurau	André Roméro
7th stage	15th June	Locarno - Mörel	172.5	José Pesarrodona
8th stage	June 16	Mörel - Lausanne	163	Geert Malfait
9th stage	17th of June	Lausanne - Solothurn	188	Ivan Schmid
10th stage	18th of June	Solothurn - Murten	81	Piet van Katwijk
11th stage	18th of June	Murten ( EZF )	23.5	Michel Pollentier	Hennie Kuiper

Further information

Web links

• Tour de Suisse website

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• Statistics start lists, stages and results of the Tour de Suisse from 1933 to 2011. (PDF; 1.5 MB)