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| 2011 UCI World Tour, race 16 of 27 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The route of the 2011 Tour de Suisse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 11–19 June 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 9[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,246.4[2] km (774.5 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 31h 45' 02" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2011 Tour de Suisse was the 75th running of the Tour de Suisse cycling stage race. It started on 11 June with an individual time trial in Lugano and ended with another individual time trial on 19 June, in Schaffhausen.[3] It was the 16th race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season.
Just like the previous edition of the race won by Fränk Schleck, the lead of the race changed hands in the final time trial stage. Lampre–ISD rider Damiano Cunego, who had held the lead of the race since stage three, had an advantage of over 90 seconds to his nearest challenger Steven Kruijswijk of Rabobank, but it was Team RadioShack's Levi Leipheimer, who had been fourth prior to the final stage and almost two minutes in arrears of Cunego, that took the final overall honours. Leipheimer, who was only third on the stage behind Fabian Cancellara (Leopard Trek) and team-mate Andreas Klöden,[4] triumphed by four seconds over Cunego after 1,246.4 kilometres (774.5 miles) of racing.[5] Kruijswijk managed to hold on to third place in the overall classification, 62 seconds down on Leipheimer, but eight seconds ahead of another Leopard Trek rider, Jakob Fuglsang.
In the race's other classifications, Leopard Trek rider Andy Schleck won the King of the Mountains classification, Liquigas–Cannondale's Peter Sagan won the points classification after placing five times in the top three of stage results, Lloyd Mondory of Ag2r–La Mondiale finished clear at the top of the sprints classification, with Leopard Trek also finishing at the head of the teams classification.
- ^ "Classement General Etape 9" (PDF). Tour de Suisse. Sportal Digital Media; MATsport Timing. 19 June 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
- ^ "Tour De Suisse (Pro Tour) - Tour of Switzerland". BikeRaceInfo. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ "Four Mountaintop Finishes In 2011 Tour De Suisse". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
- ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair (19 June 2011). "Leipheimer wins Tour of Switzerland after time trial surge". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. Reuters. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
- ^ "Levi Leipheimer snatches Tour de Suisse victory from Damiano Cunego". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Press Association. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2011.