2012 Tour de Suisse
| 2012 UCI World Tour, race 17 of 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The route of the 2012 Tour de Suisse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 9–17 June 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,398.6 km (869.0 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 35h 54' 49" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2012 Tour de Suisse was the 76th running of the Tour de Suisse cycling stage race. It started on 9 June with an individual time trial in Lugano and ended on 17 June, in Sörenberg after nine stages. It was the 17th race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.
The race was won by Movistar Team rider Rui Costa, who claimed the leader's yellow jersey after winning the second stage, and maintained the lead of the race until its conclusion holding off attacks from his rivals during the final two stages. Costa's winning margin over runner-up Fränk Schleck of RadioShack–Nissan – the 2010 winner – was fourteen seconds, and Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Levi Leipheimer, the defending champion, completed the podium, seven seconds down on Schleck and twenty-one behind Costa.
In the race's other classifications, Ag2r–La Mondiale rider Matteo Montaguti won the mountains classification, Liquigas–Cannondale's Peter Sagan comfortably won the white jersey for the points classification, having won four stages during the race including the race-opening time trial stage. Astana finished at the head of the teams classification, winning two of the last three stages through Fredrik Kessiakoff's seventh stage time trial victory and Tanel Kangert winning the final stage.