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Cancellara wins the Tour of Switzerland

Swiss back on form on home turf
by dave atkinson
Mon, Jun 22, 2009 08:11
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Fabian Cancellara continued his return to form with victory in the nine-stage Tour of Switzerland. On home turf, Cancellara blew away the challenge from Tadej Valjavec who started the final day four seconds ahead. Clad in his red skinsuit as the Swiss time trial champion, Cancellara took almost four minutes out of Valjavec.

Such was Cancellara's dominance of the final day's proceedings that no other rider could get within a minute of him. The next finisher, Tony Martin, who had won the previous day's stage, finished 1:27 down which was enough to secure the second podium spot overall, 2:02 behind Cancellara overall. Defending champion Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic was third overall, 2:24 down.

The win marks a real return to form for Cancellara, who has struggled with illness and injury since his 2008 Tirreno-Adriatico win and Olympic gold in the Beijing time trial. He was unable to defend his World Championship time trial title last year, citing mental fatigue, nor did he contend the Tirreno Adriatico this year despite showing some decent form in the Tour of California prologue, which he won for a second year in succession. 

Tour of Switzerland
Fabian Cancellara
Dave Atkinson

Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.

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