The 2007

Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse () is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France, which is on the calend ...

, the 71st edition of the

cycle race Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling sports in ...

, took place from 16 June until 24 June. As usual, the race began with a short prologue and featured a long individual time trial. Besides, riders also had to face several mountain stages in the

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, including the Grimselpass, a 12.1 kilometres long climb with an average gradient of 6.6% and slopes at 10%. The race also visited the neighbouring countries of

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and Austria. The four top finishers of the 2006 edition,

Jan Ullrich Jan Ullrich (; born 2 December 1973) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. Ullrich won gold and silver medals in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Sydney. He won the 1999 Vuelta a España and the HEW Cyclassics in fro ...

Koldo Gil Koldo Gil Pérez (born 16 January 1978 in Burlata, Navarra) is a former Spanish professional road racing cyclist who last rode for the UCI Continental team Liberty Seguros Continental. His career highlights include winning a stage of the Giro ...

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and

Ángel Vicioso Ángel Vicioso Arcos (born 13 April 1977) is a Spanish former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 1999 and 2017 for the , , Relax–GAM, LA–MSS, , and squads. Major results ;1999 : 6th Overall Vuelta a Asturias ;2000 ...

did not take part in 2007, as in one way or another they were all affected by the '' Operación Puerto'' affair.

was the only one of these riders who was not left without a team, after Ullrich was fired by his and Vicioso and Jaksche's team folded.

Teams

Twenty-one teams of eight riders started the race: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Route

Stages

Stage 1

16 June 2007 –

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, (

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Stage 2

17 June 2007 – Olten to

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Stage 3

18 June 2007 –

Brunnen Brunnen is a resort on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, part of the municipality Ingenbohl (Canton of Schwyz), at . Brunnen railway station, on the Gotthard railway, is served by hourly InterRegio trains, and by lines S2 of the Stadtbahn Zug, wh ...

to Nauders,

Stage 4

19 June 2007 – Nauders to

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–

Malbun Malbun () is a ski-resort village in an exclave of the municipality of Triesenberg, in Liechtenstein. Geography Malbun is the only resort for skiing in Liechtenstein. It is located at above sea level in the Alps, on a road to Steg and Vaduz, ...

Stage 5

20 June 2007 –

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Stage 6

21 June 2007 – Giubiasco to

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, Due to a

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storm, race officials once abandoned the stage. The stage was later restarted in

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and was shortened to 95 kilometers. The

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climb of Nufenenpass was cancelled as well.

Stage 7

22 June 2007 –

to Grimselpass,

Stage 8

23 June 2007 –

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Schwarzsee Schwarzsee () or Lac Noir (; ; rarely ; ), is a small lake in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland with an area of . The lake in the Swiss Prealps is bordered by the peaks of Schwyberg (1,628 m) in the West, Les Reccardets (1,923 m) and Spitz ...

Stage 9

24 June 2007 –

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, (

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Final standings

General classification

Points classification

Mountains classification

Sprint classification

Team classification

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tour de Suisse 2007 2007 UCI ProTour

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