2013 Tour de Suisse
| 2013 UCI World Tour, race 17 of 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 8–16 June 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,284.2 km (798.0 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 31h 08' 11" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Rui Costa (Portugal)
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(Movistar Team) |
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| Second |
 Bauke Mollema (Netherlands)
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(Blanco Pro Cycling) | |
| Third |
 Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic)
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(Saxo–Tinkoff) | |
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Points |
 Peter Sagan (Slovakia)
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(Cannondale) |
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Mountains |
 Robert Vrečer (Slovenia)
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(Euskaltel–Euskadi) |
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Sprints |
Robert Vrečer (Slovenia)
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(Euskaltel–Euskadi) |
| Team | Astana | ||
The 2013 Tour de Suisse was the 77th running of the Tour de Suisse cycling stage race. It started on 8 June with an individual time trial in Quinto and ended on 16 June after another individual time trial in Flumserberg; in total, the race consisted of nine stages. It was the seventeenth race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season.
The race was won for the second successive year by Movistar Team rider Rui Costa, who claimed the leader's yellow jersey after winning the final stage – a time trial, with a 10 km (6.2 mi) climb to a summit finish – overturning a 13-second deficit to previous race leader Mathias Frank of the BMC Racing Team. Costa was also the winner of the race's queen stage two days prior, winning into La Punt. Costa's winning margin over runner-up Bauke Mollema of Blanco Pro Cycling – a stage winner during the race, winning the second stage – was sixty-two seconds, while the podium was completed by Saxo–Tinkoff's Roman Kreuziger, eight seconds down on Mollema and seventy behind Costa.
In the race's other classifications, Euskaltel–Euskadi rider Robert Vrečer was the winner of both the mountains and the sprints classifications, having featured in several breakaways during the nine-day race.Peter Sagan (Cannondale) again won the points classification, and was the only other rider to win multiple stages during the event. Astana finished at the head of the teams classification, for the second successive year.
As the Tour de Suisse was a UCI World Tour event, all UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Originally, eighteen ProTeams were scheduled to be invited to the race, with two other squads – IAM Cycling, and Sojasun – given wildcard places, and as such, would have formed the event's 20-team peloton. Team Katusha subsequently regained their ProTour status after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. With Team Katusha not originally invited to the race, race organisers announced their inclusion to the race, bringing the total number of teams competing to twenty-one.
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