A 12 months on from Gino Mäder’s tragic demise on the Tour de Suisse, race organisers have created a memorial trip and can award a particular king of the mountains prize in his honour throughout this 12 months’s race.
The memorial rider will begin at noon on June 16 forward of the race’s closing mountain time trial from the UCI World Cycling Centre in Aigle to Villars-sur-Olon. The trip will observe the route of stage 8, that includes 865 metres of elevation.
“Together, we keep in mind Gino Mäder and trip the picturesque climb of the eighth stage of the Tour de Suisse,” Tour de Suisse organisers introduced.
“This particular memorial trip brings us collectively to grasp a difficult route in neighborhood and sporting spirit.”
The trip has a registration deadline of June 9 and prices CHF75, with a crimson Q36.5 Gino Mäder memorial jersey additionally included within the worth.
The Tour de Suisse will assist the #RideForGino foundation arrange in Mäder’s honour, with the hashtag showing on all leaders’ jerseys on the race.
The race quantity 44, which Mäder was sporting ultimately 12 months’s race, can even be excluded from the race in future, confirmed Tour de Suisse director Olivier Senn.
“We will not award Gino’s quantity 44, which he was sporting when he crashed,” Senn stated in an interview with Gruppetto magazine, including that the race is not going to maintain a second of silence for Mäder.
“Of course, that was an concept that got here to us, too. But when speaking to the household, it rapidly grew to become clear that they did not need that. Of course, we respect that.
“We’ve been in shut contact over the previous 11 months, and it was clear that we would not do something that the household did not need. So, we now wish to deliver the attractive and optimistic sides of Gino Mäder to the fore.”
This 12 months’s race can even honour Mäder’s reminiscence with a brand new mountain prize, much like the Cima Coppi on the Giro d’Italia and the Souvenir Henri Desgrange on the Tour de France.
The prize, named the #RideForGino Mountain Prize, might be awarded to the primary rider excessive of the race’s highest level, the two,421-metre excessive Nufenen Pass, on stage 6 of the race.
“One of Gino’s nice strengths was the excessive mountains,” Senn instructed Blick.
“That’s why we determined along with Gino’s household to dedicate the best level of the race to him. In this fashion, Gino will stay ceaselessly related to the Tour de Suisse.”