Tour de Suisse 1988

The 52nd Tour de Suisse took place from June 14 to 23, 1988. It was held in ten stages over a distance of 1793 kilometers.

Overall winner was the Austrian Helmut Wechselberger . The tour started in Dübendorf with 135 drivers, 89 of whom finished in Zurich on the last day .

Stages

Final score
Tour winner	Helmut Wechselberger	44:56:24 h
Second	Steve Bauer	+1: 25 min
Third	Acácio da Silva	+1: 44 min
Fourth	Rolf Järmann	+2: 33 min
fifth	Patrick Robeet	+4: 09 min
Sixth	Francesco Cesarini	+8: 40 min
seventh	Mauro Gianetti	+9: 05 min
Eighth	Fabian Fuchs	+10: 19 min
Ninth	Eric Van Lancker	+10: 42 min
Tenth	Niki Rüttimann	+11: 09 min
Scoring	Acácio da Silva	155 P.
Second	Stephan Joho	136 P.
Third	Beat Breu	114 P.
Mountain scoring	Peter de Clercq	39 P.
Second	Acacio da Silva	25 p.
Third	Stephan Joho	22 p.
Team evaluation	Weinmann-La Suisse SMM	135: 00: 32 h
Second	Ariostea-Gres	+7: 44 min
Third	CHEESE	+10: 23 min

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1st stage	14th June	Dübendorf - Düberndorf	127.5	Stephan Joho	Stephan Joho
2nd stage	15th June	Dübendorf - Zofingen	185	Werner Stutz	Leo Schönenberger
3rd stage	June 16	Zofingen - Kandersteg	217	Acacio da Silva	Acacio da Silva
4th stage	17th of June	Kandersteg - Bull	210	Maurizio Fondriest
5th stage	18th of June	Bulle - Leukerbad	199	Luc Roosen
6th stage	June 19th	Sierre - Leukerbad	18.5 ( BZF )	Jean-Claude Leclercq	Helmut Wechselberger
7th stage	20th June	Leukerbad - Locarno	207	Francesco Cesarini
8th stage	June 21st	Locarno - Chur	247	Steve Bauer
9th stage	June 22	Chur - Schaffhausen	201.5	Stephan Joho
10th stage	23rd June	Schaffhausen - Zurich	280.5	Urs Freuler

Web links

• Tour de Suisse website
• Tour de Suisse 1988 in the database of Radsportseiten.net