2012 Tour de Suisse
Rider Team Time
1 Rui Costa ( POR ) Movistar Team 29h 58 ' 39
2 Fränk Schleck ( LUX ) RadioShack-Nissan + 14
3 Levi Leipheimer ( USA ) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step + 21
4 Robert Gesink ( NED ) Rabobank + 25
5 Mikel Nieve ( ESP ) Euskaltel-Euskadi + 40
6 Roman Kreuziger ( CZE ) Astana + 42
7 Tom Danielson ( USA ) Garmin-Barracuda + 43
8 Steven Kruijswijk ( NED ) Rabobank + 1 ' 01
9 Alejandro Valverde ( ESP ) Movistar Team + 1 ' 04
10 Thibaut Pinot ( FRA ) FDJ-BigMat + 1 ' 13
General Classification after Stage 8
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 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 - the 2010 winner - was fourteen seconds, and '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, rider Matteo Montaguti won the King of the Mountains classification, '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. 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.