Preview - Tour de Suisse 2022 stage 7

The final road stage of the Tour de Suisse will be equally hard, and it is likely to be a day aswell decided in the final ascent. However, there will be a lot to handle beforehand, starting with the Lukmanierpass which will be featured early in the day.

The Tour de Suisse may not be decided on this stage, but the mountains will be enough to create serious differences once again.

The riders will go up to almost 200 meters in altitude with a 29-kilometer ascent. Over an hour of climbing with 5% average gradient, it can be the place where the breakaway will be established, summit with 125 kilometers to go.

The riders will then ride into Luxembourg with a couple of ascents in the way. With 22.5 kilometers to go St.Luzisteig (2.5K; 7.6%) which will be a warm-up to the final ascent, which will have an intermediate sprint at it’s base.

The climb is 12.5 kilometers long with 8.7% average gradient. An explosive climb at first with lots of hairpins. There will be a false-flat section with around 3 kilometers to go that transition into a more straightforward section, which will see constantly rising gradients all the way into the line at the Malbun ski station.

**** Thibaut Pinot

*** Geraint Thomas, Jakob Fuglsang

** Sergio Higuita, Alexey Lutsenko, Ion Izagirre

* Domenico Pozzovivo, Antonio Pedrero, Felix Grossschartner, Remco Evenepoel