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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 rider Rui Costa, who claimed the leader's yellow jersey after winning the final stage – a time trial, with a climb to a summit finish – overturning a 13-second deficit to previous race leader Mathias Frank of the . 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 – a stage winner during the race, winning the second stage – was sixty-two seconds, while the podium was completed by 's Roman Kreuziger, eight seconds down on Mollema and seventy behind Costa. In the race's other classifications, 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 () again won the points classification, and was the only other rider to win multiple stages during the event. finished at the head of the teams classification, for the second successive year. ==Teams== 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 – , and – given wildcard places, and as such, would have formed the event's 20-team peloton. subsequently regained their ProTour status after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. With not originally invited to the race, race organisers announced their inclusion to the race, bringing the total number of teams competing to twenty-one. The 21 teams that competed in the race were: Among the 167-rider starting peloton – each team entered eight riders with the exception of , who entered seven〔 – were four previous winners of the race. 2008 winner Roman Kreuziger was the designated team leader for , while 2009 winner Fabian Cancellara occupied a similar role for .〔 The had two previous riders among their octet; Vladimir Karpets, who won the race in 2007, served as one of the domestiques for the defending race-winner Rui Costa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2013 Tour de Suisse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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