Rui Costa wins final Tour de Suisse stage to take overall victory

Third consecutive overall win in Tour de Suisse for World Champion Rui Costa. Photos by Graham Watson

Rui Costa celebrates winning the 2014 Tour de Suisse

(Image credit: Graham Watson)

Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) won the final stage of the 2014 Tour de Suisse on Sunday, and with it overhauled Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) to take the overall win for a third consecutive year.

Bauke Mollema (Belkin) finished a few seconds down to seal third place overall, while Mathias Frank finished third on the day to move up to second overall.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.