2012 Tour de Suisse

Stage 7: Gossau Inidividual Time Trial. 34.3km

Normally Fabian Cancellara (Radioshack-Nissan) would be expected to dominate a timetrial on his home soil, but he has lost both this year, the first to Petetr Sagan and now to Swedish rider Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana). Kessiakoff covered the 34.3km course in 46'36.710 with Cancellara just 1.8" adrift. It's good news of sorts for the Swiss whose preparations ofr the London Olympics are going well following the crash that broke his collarbone in several places back in April. Third place went to Cancellara's teammate Maxime Monfort, at 20".

RadioShack's Cancellara in action © Tour de Suiisse

Rui Costa (Movistar) dug deep to finish in eight spot, 41" down and managed to actually to extend his lead. He now has a 50" gap to new second place man Roman Kreuziger with Robert Gesink in third. Frank Schleck slipped to fifth behind Alejandro Valverde.

Stage 8 takes the riders from Bischofszell to Arosa. At the end of the 148.2km stage the riders face a Haute Categorie to the finish at 1739m.

Route Map © Tour de Suisse

Results Stage 7 - Top 30

1	Fredrik KESSIAKOFF		Astana Pro Team	00:46:36.710
2	Fabian CANCELLARA		RadioShack-Nissan	00:00:02
3	Maxime MONFORT		RadioShack-Nissan	00:00:20
4	Jérémy ROY		FDJ-BigMat	00:00:25
5	Robert GESINK		Rabobank Cycling Team	00:00:27
6	Tanel KANGERT		Astana Pro Team	00:00:34
7	Andreas KLÖDEN		RadioShack-Nissan	00:00:38
8	Rui Alberto FARIA DA COSTA		Movistar Team	00:00:41
9	Peter VELITS		Omega Pharma-QuickStep	00:00:43
10	Brent BOOKWALTER		BMC Racing Team	00:00:51
11	Martin ELMIGER		AG2R La mondiale	00:01:00
12	Vladimir GUSEV		Katusha Team	00:01:00
13	Laurens TEN DAM		Rabobank Cycling Team	00:01:06
14	Mathias FRANK		BMC Racing Team	00:01:07
15	Stephen CUMMINGS		BMC Racing Team	00:01:12
16	Roman KREUZIGER		Astana Pro Team	00:01:16
17	Levi LEIPHEIMER		Omega Pharma-QuickStep	00:01:19
18	Steven KRUIJSWIJK		Rabobank Cycling Team	00:01:21
19	Alejandro VALVERDE		Movistar Team	00:01:22
20	Tom DANIELSON		Garmin-Barracuda	00:01:24
21	Linus GERDEMANN		RadioShack-Nissan	00:01:25
22	Bart DE CLERCQ		Lotto-Belisol Team	00:01:27
23	Moreno MOSER		Liquigas-Cannondale	00:01:27
24	Martin KOHLER		BMC Racing Team	00:01:29
25	Mikel ASTARLOZA		Euskaltel - Euskadi	00:01:34
26	Dario CATALDO		Omega Pharma-QuickStep	00:01:35
27	Zdenek STYBAR		Omega Pharma-QuickStep	00:01:37
28	Frank SCHLECK		RadioShack-Nissan	00:01:37
29	Wouter POELS		Vacansoleil - DCM Procycling Team	00:01:41
30	Thomas LÖVKVIST		Sky Procycling	00:01:42

Courtesy Matsport Timing

General Classification after Stage 7 - Top 50

1	Rui Alberto FARIA DA COSTA		Movistar Team	26:10:55
2	Roman KREUZIGER		Astana Pro Team	00:00:50
3	Robert GESINK		Rabobank Cycling Team	00:00:55
4	Alejandro VALVERDE		Movistar Team	00:01:04
5	Frank SCHLECK		RadioShack-Nissan	00:01:04
6	Tom DANIELSON		Garmin-Barracuda	00:01:12
7	Levi LEIPHEIMER		Omega Pharma-QuickStep	00:01:15
8	Vladimir GUSEV		Katusha Team	00:01:17
9	Thomas LÖVKVIST		Sky Procycling	00:01:22
10	Steven KRUIJSWIJK		Rabobank Cycling Team	00:01:27
11	Jakob FUGLSANG		RadioShack-Nissan	00:01:34
12	Mikel NIEVE		Euskaltel - Euskadi	00:01:36
13	Tanel KANGERT		Astana Pro Team	00:01:40
14	Thibaut PINOT		FDJ-BigMat	00:01:42
15	Nicolas ROCHE		AG2R La mondiale	00:01:52
16	Chris SÖRENSEN		Team Saxo bank	00:01:52
17	Moreno MOSER		Liquigas-Cannondale	00:01:59
18	Mathias FRANK		BMC Racing Team	00:02:03
19	Dario CATALDO		Omega Pharma-QuickStep	00:02:09
20	Robert KISERLOVSKI		Astana Pro Team	00:02:24
21	Maxime MONFORT		RadioShack-Nissan	00:02:25
22	John GADRET		AG2R La mondiale	00:02:39
23	Wouter POELS		Vacansoleil - DCM Procycling Team	00:02:43
24	Bart DE CLERCQ		Lotto-Belisol Team	00:02:45
25	Mikel ASTARLOZA		Euskaltel - Euskadi	00:02:48
26	Rubens BERTOGLIATI		Team Type 1 - Sanofi	00:02:50
27	Damiano CUNEGO		Lampre - ISD	00:02:56
28	Linus GERDEMANN		RadioShack-Nissan	00:02:57
29	Gorka IZAGIRRE		Euskaltel - Euskadi	00:02:57
30	Laurens TEN DAM		Rabobank Cycling Team	00:03:11
31	Giampaolo CARUSO		Katusha Team	00:03:27
32	Dmitriy MURAVYEV		Astana Pro Team	00:04:07
33	Julien EL FARES		Team Type 1 - Sanofi	00:04:15
34	Michael BARRY		Sky Procycling	00:04:27
35	Tom Jelte SLAGTER		Rabobank Cycling Team	00:04:33
36	Georg PREIDLER		Team Type 1 - Sanofi	00:05:04
37	Salvatore PUCCIO		Sky Procycling	00:05:24
38	Marcus BURGHARDT		BMC Racing Team	00:05:49
39	Andreas KLÖDEN		RadioShack-Nissan	00:06:23
40	Jose Joaquin ROJAS		Movistar Team	00:06:31
41	Thomas PETERSON		Garmin-Barracuda	00:07:00
42	Johnny HOOGERLAND		Vacansoleil - DCM Procycling Team	00:07:03
43	Martin KOHLER		BMC Racing Team	00:07:21
44	Francesco GAVAZZI		Astana Pro Team	00:07:34
45	Volodymir GUSTOV		Team Saxo bank	00:08:36
46	Jérémy ROY		FDJ-BigMat	00:08:53
47	Michael ALBASINI		Orica GreenEDGE	00:09:10
48	Zdenek STYBAR		Omega Pharma-QuickStep	00:09:36
49	Remi CUSIN		Team Type 1 - Sanofi	00:09:48
50	Martin ELMIGER		AG2R La mondiale	00:10:12

Courtesy Matsport Timing

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