2016 Tour de Suisse

As the Tour de Suisse is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI Pro Teams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team into the race. Four teams were also given wildcard places in the race.

In the Tour de Suisse, three different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the Tour de Suisse, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a light blue jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. Hors Category gave 20 points to the first rider crossing (20, 15, 10, 6, 4), a Category 1 was worth 12 points (12, 8, 6, 4, 2), a Category 2 was worth 8 points (8, 6, 4, 2, 1) and a Category 3 was worth 5 points (5, 3, 2, 1).

The third jersey represented the points classification, marked by a black jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing highly in a stage. A stage victory awarded 10 points, with 8 points for second, 6 for third, 4 for fourth and 2 for fifth. Points could also be earned at intermediate sprints location for finishing in the top three during each stage on a 6–3–1 scale. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.

A combativity award was also attributed for the rider who had ridden the most aggressively in the eyes of the judges at the end of every stage. It could have been a rider who featured in breakaways or a cyclist who attacked often.

Classification leadership by stage

Stage	Winner	General classification	Mountains classification	Points classification	Best Swiss rider classification	Team classification	Combativity award
1	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara	not awarded	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara	Lotto–Soudal	not awarded
2	Peter Sagan	Jürgen Roelandts	Matthias Krizek				Marcel Wyss
3	Peter Sagan	Peter Sagan	Antwan Tolhoek	Peter Sagan	Silvan Dillier		Silvan Dillier
4	Maximiliano Richeze						Jérémy Maison
5	Darwin Atapuma	Pierre Latour			Mathias Frank	Team Sky	Darwin Atapuma
6	Pieter Weening	Wilco Kelderman		Maximiliano Richeze	Martin Elmiger	Lotto–Soudal	Pieter Weening
7	Tejay Van Garderen	Warren Barguil				Team Katusha	Matthias Brändle
8	Jon Izagirre	Miguel Ángel López					Jon Izagirre
9	Jarlinson Pantano						Miguel Angel Lopez
Final		Miguel Ángel López	Antwan Tolhoek	Maximiliano Richeze	Martin Elmiger	Team Katusha	not awarded

Notes

• In stage 2, Jurgen Roelandts, who was second in the points classification, wore the black jersey, because Fabian Cancellara (in first place) wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification during that stage. Martin Elmiger, who was second in the Swiss rider classification, wore the red jersey, because Fabian Cancellara (in first place) wore the yellow jersey as leader of the overall classification during that stage.
• In stage 3, Martin Elmiger, who was second in the Swiss rider classification, wore the red jersey, because Fabian Cancellara (in first place) wore the black jersey as leader of the points classification during that stage.
• In stage 4, Fabian Cancellara, who was third in the points classification, wore the black jersey, because Peter Sagan (in first place) wore the yellow jersey as leader of the overall classification and Silvan Dillier (in second place) wore the red jersey as the leader of the Swiss rider classification during that stage.
• In stage 5, Maximiliano Richeze, who was second in the points classification, wore the black jersey, because Peter Sagan (in first place) wore the yellow jersey as leader of the overall classification during that stage.

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